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is this one of those electric mini household pump fountains?

A section of the totem pole on display in the lobby of the Mccord

Museum, Montreal.

This totem pole is on display in the lobby area of the Mccord Museum,

Montreal.

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What a GREAT capture. This shot is almost an image from my own fantasy of what parenthood is like.

I can't pinpoint it. But this picture doesn't really do it for me. I can see that it was a beautiful scene, but the image doesn't really captivate me.

 

There are aspects that all distract from eachother (sky, ocean,coral,ground/houses).

 

Could this shot have been better if something was isolated? like you zoomed in a bit more on the rocky houses below. Or excluded the sky completely?

 

I often find it hard to pin point what makes a landscape shot interesting, and what doesn't.

 

Can anyone offer inseight?

Manfred... uuh, you know its a painting of a horse right?

it's a shadow. cast by the building on the right.

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Ok I'll bite... what is the camera resting on?

A pillow?

Did you use a flash on this one?

The empty space isn't really behind her conceptually. She is staring through/across the empty part of the frame. It would look terrible if the frame was cropped right next to her face, and the empty space was on the other side.

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Montreal botanical gardens?

I do like the lighting of this shot. But the crop is pretty terrible. I don't see any artistic benefit to cropping his face this narrow.

I love this shot. It's too bad it was blurry and you had to compensate with what appears to be a large amount of unsharp mask. Oh well.

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The lighting is perfect!

 

May I ask what you used for lighting? natural light? strobe?

 

What did you use for the background? Or is that just a grey wall?

Just superb... I can tell you did a lot of photoshop "dodging" in the foreground.... was everything encased in shadow in the original shot?

 

If you had used a GND filter during capture time.. you might have been able to preserve clarity it the foreground

Did you shoot through glass? or were you directly infront of the insect? Did you use a flash?

 

Was this at the insectarium, or the botanical gardins?

Nice job... black and white was invented for these kinds of moody shots.

 

I think it needs one more element to hold people's interest longer... something like a watch on one of the chair arms, or something along those lines But that's being picky :)

I think this shot is superb! please describe the lighting setup, and camera settings.

 

I'd be curious to know!

I'd have to say, the one on the right looks wise... the rest look completely confused :)

The colors captured my attention!

 

What lens did you use?