heimbrandt

Comments are both welcome and appreciated.

 

Thanks!

I like the dark colours in the background, very nice. Did you use an IR filter or did you shoot the film straight without filter?

 

I like the photo very much, the contrast between the white flowers and the dark background works very well.

 

One note, however, I would have cropped the ipage slightly harder so only the sharp white flowers would have been on the frame. Leaving out the upper fourth might improve the photo.

 

Warm colours, nice tonality and a perfect exposure.

 

The pose is good, but her expression looks reserved.

Interesting shot, just a pity that the sunshade outside the window darkens the sky (lowers the contrast) and breaks the silhouette effect.

I must say I really like your photos, both what you have posted on photo.net and on your smallstudio.com site. I reagurarly come back there to see if you have posted any recent work. Your photographical style is between the appartently commercial and the spontaneous. I think most of your photos have the sponatenous look that doesn't reveal all the planning and preparations behind then, which is really good.

 

I am definitely a sucker for collages and maybe that's also a reason why I appreciate your work and your page in particular as it fills the screen with photos (nice to have a fast connection :-) ).

After all, he's in the bright spot, not sure what that would imply. Hope maybe? May I ask how you managed to screw up in such an interesting way?

I fully agree with Lindsay. Did you make a print where you made the sky darker, not only vignetting it? As it is now the ground is darker than the sky. It might have improved the photo even more to have it the other way around.

Lightning is a bit och the hard side. A reflector would have reduced the contrast a bit.

I like the framing, but would have like to see the arms fully included on the shot.

The strong colours of the two balloons are amazing. Especially since the landscape is in the shade som its colours are very low-key.

 

You have many beautiful pictures in your folders here. Nice to look at.

Lovely shot, but some haze lovers the contrast a bit. A very beautiful landscape indeed!

This is nice, very nice indeed. His cheek is washed out as already mentioned. Seeing only so little of his ear as we do hear is aslo distracting, at least to me.

 

Apart from those minor printing issues I definitely think this is a very good portrait.

Nice effect. Even higher contrast and washed out highlights would have made an even better photo. Can't say I like the border at all, especially the gold frame is really distracting. Just a small black border would have been adequate.

Quite nice. I like the subtle colours. A very serene photo.

 

Why did you move in so close? If the left and middle daisys had been on the photo in full it would have been even better.

Poor dog

Apart from beeing a bit overexposed I really must say I like this photo. Her left foot is what is too washed out. I know it's difficult to obtain perfect exposure when cross processing as ISO ratings don't match prefectly anymore.

 

It reminds me of Annie Liebowitz for some reason, which is meant as a compliment.

If this would have been less original featuring a regular framing I would easily have rated this photo higher. Her pose, hair is very nice, as is the contrast, colours and lightning. You sure know how to take a good photo.

I like big portraits. This is no exception. Two DJs make it funny as well.

I really like this, lovely smile! Exposure and pose is very good indeed. So is the short DOF too. The catch light is a bit distracting, I would have liked not to see it (placed it in white of the eye). The photo intrigues me slightly, what's she smiling about and what's she looking at?

 

If her entire left eye lash would have been on the photo, so would probably parts of her right eye, which would have been more disturbing. Tilting her head more would have worked against this photo as I see it. That would also have showed more hair and made the portrait less tight.

 

I look forward to see more where that came from! For some reason I think of a campain shot by Swedish photographer Hans Gedda about ten years ago for Hasselblad. That is entirely meant as a compliment. Jenny, gillar du Hans Gedda?

Well don't we all find photos that ticks us off because they are tasteless, a potentially wonderful photo spoiled by a minor detail easily fixed, not cropped they way we want to, showing something so uninteresting before we manage to fall asleep click on the next photo. The reasons are many.

 

If I look at my own thoughts on what I see on Photo.net I see so many photos I easly could give a 1/1 rating but I don't bother. Unless I motivate my rating it only sounds like bitterness. -If it's bad, when people just write 'PERFECT 10/10!!!' no comment seems necessary. -Why not?

 

I see som many photos that I would like to comment furhter but I don't have time for all of them. Good photos, bad phots. Critisism isn't only about complaining.

John I recall your debate some time ago, sorry about it. But really, as you say, why bother? You have received so many nice comments from so many other people. I also like several of your photos. Jerry, listen to John, he's right. The one critising you backs up her critisism with one very good photo of her own on Photo.net, many don't.

 

Jenny's only posted photo to date is not really comparable to yours' as it is a regular portrait. And a very good one it is. More of my thoughts on that on her pages. Suffice it to say that you need to know a bit about photography to take such a portrait.

 

Jenny, I see what you mean on most of your comments, but not this one. But why not spell out what you think? This is far from the best photo of a girl I have seen on Photo.net but it doesn't disturb me the least either. Some of the other photos you have commented are tryly distatesful and a waste of film, time and money. This is at least a serious attempt to take a creative photo. I personally cannot say I like it, but I understand why others do.

One of the more tasteful photos showing some skin. Lots of people just post pictures showing skin hoping to get attention/shock people that way.

Nudity, when used right should work as enticement to the mind. Nice to see a contrast to many of the porn-like pics that take up server space on Photo.net.

An old rule of nude/pin up photography is that if you cannot take a beautiful photo of a girl with her clothes on you sure don't need bother shooting her in the nature.

 

Technically I like the photo, the colours have a nice retro feeling to it. Was it difficult to achieve or did you use PS? I second Marco's opinion about including her lower back too. Maybe you should have lowered the camera a bit to have more space below her feet.

Very nice retro feel. Nice pose and lovely make up and hair. The background is good, but a bit too black since you cannot se what she supports her leg on.

Good, funny and original in a tasteful way. A photo even a famous photographer would be proud over. Pity about all the washed out areas, but maybe they help keeping attention on the model -not sure.

A very odd portrait. shallow DOF is commonly used in portraiture, but then the eyes are sharp. Now you se the blurry eyes but only a small portion of the hair's sharp. Original yes, but a bit too original for me.

This photo puzzles me somewhat. I'm not sure if it is a portrait of a model or a documentary photo of a model having her make up done.

 

If it is to be a portrait I cannot say I see the point in including the hand applying lip stick. Then I also think the upper left corner is far too bright, especially since her hair is blonde.

 

If it is to be a documentary photo of a photo session on location why the tight crop? Then a wider view including the set and the make up artist would have made a much more interesting photo.

 

As it is now you have a very confusing photo of a beautiful girl. -Which is actually not so bad :-)

Well the shot is nice, but as a birdlover I really have serious doubts about this sort of animal photography. You really run a huge risk of scaring away the parents for good when taking a shot like this.

 

No animal photo is worth risking the life/lives of the animals for.