vincent_frazzetta

...very nice vintage look...I shaded a little of the top portion, thinking there might be too much sky that isn't adding to the composition, but I'm just not sure...

good framing, good composition...but I'm a film guy, and I think I would have used a polarizer to pop out the clouds, and try to reduce the distant haze--don't know what the equivalent is in digital, but there must be one...

...I studied the photo, and concluded that I wanted to see more of it...

...I looked really hard at the photo...the fellow looks like he's plunging into the cloud bank beneath him--which is splendid, but I was bothered by something: I think I would have preferred to see just the smallest piece of the ledge he leaped from, or the water he'll end up in (no, maybe the ledge is actually better)...I think I need something like that to anchor my sense of balance--not in the visual, photo sense, but the that thing in the mind that says something is not quite in synch...

...give me a break...I love this pup...ps: you chose not to shot him (her?) full face, and I think it works in this case...

...tough shot...you've got the sun on the lead ship's port side, with her starboard in too much shadow--would like to have seen a bit more detail there, though I'm not sure how, except maybe opening up by a stop...also, could you have positioned yourself to your left to isolated the main subject (the lead ship)--I think the many masts detract from the impact of the primary subject...I also think the vertical composition--the amount of sky and the amount of sea is just right, and the unfurled standard on her main mast really completes the the composition...

...like it a lot...nice composition--that white boat placed right on the middle pulls the eye in, and a second look places the tower nicely off to the stronger side of the photo...being a film shooter, I'm hoping this one is film--don't want digital intruding on the B&W film art...

...you're right--a lot going on here...the only thing I might consider changing is getting the power pole off the center target--maybe a little to the right, since the trees sort of fill in that left side nicely...those Holgas are something else, aren't they...reminds me of acting and comedy--you really, really have to be a good actor to do good comedy, and I think you really have to be an adept photographer to do adequately do Holga (and I'm not here yet)...

I just left a comment on the photo above this one...you're becoming my hero...I like the pattern and the contrast very much...the large lower branch carries my eye from left to right, right off the page...then I come back and and that vertical branch sort of ties things together again--translated: an intriguing composition...

oooo, I like it...I want to be told it was done with film so I (film shooter) might be able to as well at some point...

..I keep trying to get similar shots (I live on the coast of Maine, USA), but I never do as well as you've done...one thought that flashed in my mind as I studied the composition is what would this photo have looked like at wide angle?

...I live just a few miles from the Point, so I know the spot, and I appreciate the textures and tones of these rocks...I like the photo because it is well done, of course--not a typical tourist snapshot, and I put my hand over the top to block out the sky, and at first I thought I liked it better that way, but then maybe not because the mass of ledge looses perspective...what I might possibly have done is wait for one of the lobster boats to come into partial view, or a distant gull, or even a large wave splash--but would that make it too gimmicky or detract from the study of the rocks?...possibly...also, I think the ledge angle (across the upper third of the photo)is the just right balance of rock and water...

...this is the kind of shot that I have a lot of difficulty with...I would have tried to brighten the flower somehow, and I would have tried to subtly gimmick the photo with something in the distance at the end of the blade of grass (as the eye travels the blade to its tip)...but neither of my enhancements would have worked as well as your composition, though I hesitantly agree with an early comment about that corner being a bit too dark--but I'm just not sure...all that said, I think it's a very nice photo...

Form the outset, I am not a professional photographer, but I've been around a while. Given that : the focus for me is not the girl, it is the sewing machine--like some sort of glowing, alien presence--that makes this portrait. Look at her clutched arms, look how she sets herself away from the machine's personal space... the machine dominates the girl...the title is all wrong; it should be "Sewing machine with girl". I find it somewhat disturbing, therefore I'd say it is a particularly successful portrait. I am serious.