dan_paley

I really like that. The contrast there is actually a lot closer to the original b&w print.

What to say about this one...? One of my personal favorites.

Comments/suggestions to improve very much appreciated.

 

N80, 50/1.8D, Tri-X and HC.

I'm looking hard for the Emperor's clothes and I just don't see them. The women's poses strike me as god-awful contrivances and I don't understand how they relate to whatever you are trying to convey. The title suggests that you mean to play off the contrast between sea and sky... warm/serene vs. cool/turbid? Maybe the women are meant to suggest projections of the water and its more energetic aspect into the more placid sky. (but why would the left-hand woman be looking back down??) If that interpretation is correct, the angular and strained poses are logical, but in an aesthetic sense they still make me wince. I can't get past those 20 fingers all akimbo. How uncomfortable your models must have been, I can't imagine.

 

Could you try to explain the themes you had in mind for this picture?

I have no idea where this guy was going or what he was doing. I saw

him from behind and regretted having missed such a unique person; 30

min later he walked back the other way and I made this one exposure as

he passed. Neither one of us spoke. Anyway, comments welcome. Thanks

Hmm. Seen it before. There are things I love about this; your image is well exposed and tack sharp and your subject is striking. But for this to be a great photo, your presentation of this familiar image had better be spot on, and the composition of this one just doesn't do it for me. I would suggest that you try to cut the dead space and (gasp) keep the rule of thirds in mind; here it might have helped to position the bird's eye on the upper left intersection. Hope I'm not stifling you. Good shot. DP

Do you think it's a possibility that printed nice and large and glossy, toned, matted, displayed, it could rise above "nice"? (A completely serious question.)

 

It's frustrating... I don't think this site and I are seeing eye to eye. I swear to God that Ansel Adams would have pulled steady 5's on PN.

I'm a little bit proud of this one and I need to be brought back to

earth. PN is good for that.

I have two fears for this picture. Number uno is that it's just a

pretty cliche. My mom liked it; this is often the kiss of death.

Number two is that the 50/50 horizon placement might be a little

stiff. So... like it? Any thoughts on how better to capture this

beautiful light without being so... boring?

Used a 24mm lens to make this bottle scream "look at me." Delta

400 / D76. Comments/suggestions?

My effort to reduce this old truck into near-abstraction while still

conveying its essential feel. This actually won a prize, if only in

a county fair. 55mm lens, Tri-X/HC.