chad_gard

Very colorful and graphic. There is just enough direction to the light for the shaddows to provide interesting releif without destroying the overriding color statement.

At first glance, it's a shame her head is covered. But then you notice the hand gesture, and the photo really comes to life in a new fun/ironic way.

 

Amusing and fun.

I like the minimalist nature of the shot, and the contrast/tension created by the one white bird amongst the other black ones. It might be helped compositionally, though, by moving the power lines/birds out of the dead-center of the image, perhaps cropping it so that the top wire is about 1/3 the way down from the top.

Interestng shot. Too bad the subject couldn't have been the first one through - just the one set of footprints could have added to the feeling of loneliness/individuality.

 

The trees on the right, while obviously meant to overpower the walker, seem a bit much and too high-contrast in this high-key photo. Perhaps simply cropping the right-most two trunks worth out, so we get just the one, largest mid-ground trunk near the right edge, plus the one behind it and the whole tree in the background, would simplify and balance the photo out a bit.

Very interesting shot. Nice play of light and shaddow and depth of field. You have to love it when inspiration strikes like that.

Exciting, with lots of action. I like how the ice and water play together with the light. There just may be a bit too much going on, though...

Nice textures and colors.

 

I'm not sure I agree cropping the left would help so much as changing the shooting position would. moving a bit to the left could eliminate the distracting doorways from being visible on that wall, yet not left the rather nice planter box (?) hovering in mid-air. It would also keep from chopping a chimney in half with the box, and get a bit more of the slope of the roof on the right, providing a more of that nice line drawing the eye down the alley.

Nice idea, nice textures in the wall/ground/paraphanelia arround. I would probably move the center of focus a little deaper so the woman hanging laundry would be a little more sharp. Also, and this may be difficult to execute, the wite walls are washed out. It would be nice to bring their exposure down, perhaps with a graduated ND filter turned sideways. This would be difficult to do and hide the line from the filter on the ground, though.

 

It would be a challenge perhaps worth trying. But probably by the time you got the filter on and everythign composed, the woman would have finished hanging her laundry and ridden the motorcycle away....

Technically excellent, and very graphic. Maybe blow some of the lint off the black surface, but otherwise quite nice. A lot better than most "buy my X" photos!

Very interesting light and tonality, with lots of rich texture. The tilt and shape of the bell nicely echoes the tops of the pillars. As a musician, i'd really like to hear what the bell sounds like.

 

Fun image! I imagine temple was quite striking in person.

There seems to be a lot of photo for a very little subject. Yet too much contrast from the hair to be effective as a minimalim, and not very graphic either.

 

The idea is probably a good one - you may want to play with composition some, and placement of the model in the frame.

My eye keeps getting drawn to the cigarette, probably not the intent.

 

May be a personal hang-up, though - recently lost both my father and step-grandfather in less than a year to smoking-related lung cancer. Or, it could be that it is the highest contrast part of the image.

 

'Tis a fun subject, and technically fine. I'll let you decide if the cigarette is a visual problem or just my psychological one. If you think it's fisual, it may be worthwhile to fix that in PS.

Interesting and enigmatic photo. Without anything to reference it by, it's hard to tell the cloud is "massive". Since you stitched it together from 32 frames, I believe you. But as a photo by itself, with no horizon in the frame, it seems like a centered, oddly-shaped, backlit cloud with, and little else.

 

If enigmatic is your goal, you definitely succeeded.

Interesting and rather amusing. don't see too many "duck butt" shots...

 

It would probably be better without the background bird. But cropping it out ruins the composition.

 

Good exposure on a tough tonal range, and I really like the sharpness on the foreground bird - especially the water droples on the feathers.

 

Very nice. And somewhat funny.

The overall tone of the image seems a bit too high-key. Maybe less exposure, to get some darker darks would be an improvement.

 

It's a little disturbing seeing so little of the man's face, and he dominates the frame. What really makes the image exciting/unique/fun is the dog.

 

What about cropping it down to right about the man's right elbow (lopping off the top of him). We still get a clear view of the "story" protrayed, but the truly unique and amusing part of the photo now becomes dominant.

Interesting and emotionally involving subject. Compositionlly, it may be better to crop the left side and top a bit - the bright area of open sky in the top left is distracting, and doesn't "fit" well with the overall rich, saturated tones of the image

Not sure if this goes in abstract or landscape? Trying to make the

most of interesting light, an extremely tired photographer, and no

tripod. Taken at dusk, overlooking Gatlinburg, TN. 2.5 second

exposure handheld, while zooming in.

 

It'll probably get clobbered in ratings, but I'd really appreciate

comments on the idea, composition, exposure, etc. So, comments, please.

Nice pose and exposure/tone. I think the hilight in the eye is just a bit too big for the expression on the model's face, though.

Looks like a shelf clound on a very HP MCS... Interesting play between the obvious wetness of the storm and the still-sunlit, dry-looking dirt in the foreground, though the contrast seems a bit high, causing the usually interesting-looking structure of the arcus clouds to be lost in darkness.

Very interesting photo. I like the interplay between the sunset and the city lights and reflections on the water. I imagine it was difficult to get the exposure correct to get the effect so well from so many different natural and artifical, direct and reflected light sources.

 

If I were going to pick a nit, I would just say that the white light streak on the right side going through one of the buildings is a bit disturbing. Not sure what it would have been (the yellow and red streaks from the moving boat in the mid-ground do not bother me at all)

Very interesting light. Typically I like high-contrast photos and lots of texture. But in this case, I think there is too much competition between the texture of the wood and the gravel below it. Your eye wants to follow the woodden rail, but yet it is distracted by the greater contrast in the gravel.

I dissagree with Brice about cloning out the snow drops hanging off of his beard (they help emphasize the coldness and his gnarled appearence), and the button below the scarf (no reason - I just like it). I would, however, try to account for what appears to be a snowflake streaking by just under his right eye (unless it's a scar, but it looks more like a snowflake falling between the camera and his face). It distracts from the subjects face, and doesn't serve to enhance the feeling any.

 

I find the use of sepia tone interesting in such an obviously cold setting. A straight black and white would give an entirely different emotional response, and I'd be interested in seing how that would look - the coldness would be emphasized, but would it make the subject look unfriendly/cold (personality-wise) as well? Hard to tell without trying.

Very graphic. The rotated canvas gives a uniqe perspective.

 

I know you metioned very little manipulation, but while you're at that little bit, what about removing the w bright white small drops just above and just below the "cone"? That would serve to make it even more graphic.

 

What is the fluid? Water? Milk? How did you time the shot? You mentioned 4 flashes, so I doubt motor drive...

The crop on the bottom is odd, but not disturbing. Doing the finger-croping thing on screen I can't tell for sure, but it might be interesting to maximize the strange cropping effect, and crop off the right side to about half-way through the post she's leaning on, and from the top town to right against the top of her head, and the left to just touching the sole of her right shoe. So, basically, her head would touch the top, her back would touch the right, her butt would touch the bottom, and her shoe would touch the top. May be effective, may not, you'd have to try to be sure.

 

I do like the pose, expression and setting. It definitely ellicits and emotional response. Not so sure a slightly less-bright sock wouldn't help (could be adjusted in photoshop easily, but I tend to like not doing that sort of thing myself).

Yes, I think you're right. it's too centered. This makes the composition rather static. Moving to put the sun on one of the 1/3's intersections and giving the trail a diagonal to help draw the eye into the photo would be more pleasing.

 

It is interesting light, though, and still a pleasing photo. Maybe maximizing that with the use of a graduated ND filter so the foreground left isn't quite so overexposed would have been good, too. hard to tell without trying...