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Un foto muy bueno. Gusto los cors (y la mujer is muy linda tambien).

Exquisite photography!

A wonderful style!

Superb work of fine-art.

superb!

gorgeous photography!

Tim, I just saw this in the "No Words" Forum and just had to come to your portfolio and look at the full-size photo. This is an utterly beautiful example of fine-art portraiture, one of the very best that I have seen in a long time.

 

Your lensmanship is near perfect and you have a very lovely model. What more could a photographer want in life?

 

My very highest regards to you both.

This is why the camera was invented.

Les is correct; the composition is a fine one and it speaks the plain and simple themes of rural America. Wyeth comes to mind, as does Grant Wood and mental images of Amish buggies driven by beared men and bonnetted women. Good job Kellen; you have given us a rare visual taste of your home turf, a pastoral arcadia that seems more an illustration from a history book than a real-world slice of our post-modern concrete-covered world.

 

But it could use just a bit more "pop" in the contrast department. The sky is the key part of this photo when wrestling with these tones. You may want to darken the darker parts and lighten the highlights. Of course the hard part comes with doing so while avoiding highlight burn-out. Not an easy job.

 

I am proud of you.

About as classic as classic pin-up gets. Kudos to both the photographer and his very lovely model.

This is REALLY good work!

Will Robinson's sister?

I must admit that I have mixed feelings about this. The photograph itself is superb and I shall not nit-pick any details here. But I think that the border is a distraction, at least for an image viewed on a monitor screen. If hung on a wall of course the border (a frame) would have its place, and it would enhance the vintage sepia look and feel of the photo. However for web use, I think it is totally un-necessary

 

That being said, the photo has me wishing to see more of your work.

This is almost too good to be real. My very highest regards to your eye and artistry.

Pure dynamism!

sweet

If vintage is what you want, then use the real thing. Digital noise is not the same as B&W film grain. It looks like what it is, a PhotoShopped modern digital capture. I believe that only silver-halide can look like silver-halide and noise will never look like grain.

 

But that being said of the technical details, I rather like the style of the photo taken as a whole.

 

"Right church, wrong pew" as an old professor of mine used to say.

Interesting, almost abstract, bodyscape

There's nothing like getting up close and personal.

Perfection

Truly excellent portraiture Mark. My very highest regards.

My god I love your work!

With all due respect to Mr. Phelps, (an artist that I admire) I must question his advice. Does the entire figure really NEED to be in focus? I think not. The very narrow DOF, combined with the grain, makes for an effective perspective.

It has been far too long since I visited your gallery Mark. I love this.

Interesting