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It's got real mood. Just enough interest in the dark foreground to carry it. It's very difficult to succeed with this type of photo, I think. It reminds me a bit of the paintings of Vlaminck. I would be tempted to put the right edge of the road commencing at the bottom right corner to get a strong lead in diagonal.
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Is that sky real? Nice tension between the calm foreground boats and the dynamics of the sky. I would be tempted to bump the contrasts though.
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Monumental.
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The silhouettes with their shadows are very strong, the number three is always intriguing (just look at how long the Holy Trinity has been going) and you have replaced the necessity of keeping parallel to the horizon by introducing a strong horizontal line in the foreground, which makes the out of balance seem acceptable. Add to this that the line of the silhouettes and the line of the white crosshatching meet at some point out of the picture and that the silhouettes are black and the crosshatching white, and you have some of the reasons why this image works (I think). At any rate, it feels like some portentous event is either just about to happen, or has just happened. -
This works very well: the out of focus background, the colour on the band on the hat and the serious expression. The dots of light on the face and the strong shadow which mimics and repeats the curve of the hat also give it something unusual. Woman of mystery. -
Just what I like to see in a photo - lots of orange boys. Well done!
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One day, maybe. Fantastic image. -
Very strong: I would leave this just as it is. The diagonal path going towards the trees is very effective, and the trees exceedingly beautiful. Trees and boat masts are not easy because they break the horizon, but here the tonal values of land and sky have come together and the form of the tree is beautifully apparent.
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I would say that you can't crop this: the theme is the street and there it is, side to side, one cobbled street, on which life unfolds. The couple on the left are very strong, quintessentially Parisian and the rest is just as it happens. No problem with that. One amusing feature is the fact that she has found that nine inch curb to make up the difference in height. When at home, she has to stand on a box. -
It just had to be a Canon Eos. -
Very poetic image from a Coolpix. -
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I go along with you, Doug. Making a connection between the elements of a photograph is part of what photography is about. The fact that there is no connection can also work, but rarely. Contrast, juxtaposition, comparison all work, and if there is a story, that gets to the viewer's heart (or soul, if he has one). Technique is not an end in itself: all that sort of stuff does, along with a lot of modern 'art', is to say 'Ain't I clever' or 'Ain't I an artist'. This can get exceedingly tedious. It's a well seen photo though.
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Nice juxtaposition though. Are you holding the camera as well? If so, that's a really neat trick.
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Looks like Gericault to me. The point of view is interesting though. Are you floating in mid-air, and, if so, how do you do that and keep the camera steady? -
Focus seems a bit soft, probably because it's so close up, and I would be tempted to crop the top as that doesn't seem to add much to the image. But it's a nice study using available light which gives the face a dramatic presence, all the better for not having a smile. Old people can be the most beautiful, but in a different way that moves the viewer more immediately because it doesn't depend on surface attraction, but rather on what is deep inside, coming out. A young person who is beautiful was given that by god, an old person who is beautiful achieved it by their good life. -
Funny, Goofy, Strange, even Shocking. -
Atmospheric, but I think you need to get out there and take out that dog sign, along with some of that fencing, demolish those blocks of apartments maybe and uproot a couple of those newly planted trees. Maybe replace with a sign saying 'no yuppies', or a drunken beggar, for best effect, slumped against the gatepost cursing you for having a camera, or a deaf mute somnambulist, gesticulating to the sky (a la Piranesi). Then I think you would have something special, though probably not appropriate for photo.net. Still, who cares about that?
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There's an interesting sense of restless drama in your shots featuring this young lady. This one works particularly well, almost like an abstract composition with its strong angularity and shallow curves. It could be a graphical essay in how curves become points, or, metaphorically, how the soft, safe and comfortable can become dangerous. It also has the added interest of the colour change between foreground and background. Is that photoshop? Maybe using some different model might open new doors? -
Interesting series this. I hope you keep doing them. The bunny here has a slightly melancholy look, or is that suspicion? Anyhow, this is the one I prefer, for many reasons, probably mostly for the direct look to camera which speaks volumes, (if only I could understand the language!), though I have to point out that you chopped the hands off. Not that I mind that in this case, for some reason, but photographically speaking, it's probably a little naughty.
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Good combination of diffuse shadow against the rather regular and strident pattern of the balusters. Actually, I think that might be enough (without the pushchair). On second thoughts, it is the pushchair that pulls the attention.
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