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My best friend Thure, fighting leukemia.

 

I did a whole photo shoot with him where we showed him strong and flexing

like a body builder while battling cancer in the hospital.

 

All comments and critiques are appreciated!

All comments and critiques are greatly appreciated!

All comments and critiques are appreciated!

All comments and critiques are appreciated!

All comments and critiques are appreciated!

All comments and critiques are greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I agree with Bob--great photo. The tattoo looks wonderful on this model.

Very GQ--fun. Nice job. Raw, a bit grunge, and definitely sexy.

This is just fantastic. Wonderful job.

All comments and critiques are greatly appreciated! Thank you.

My best friend, Thure, in the hospital fighting leukemia. Note the masks on the people

in the background. After some very scary weeks, he is in remission and is gaining his

strength back. I thought it was important to take his picture during this important time

in his life.

 

All comments and critiques are greatly appreciated!

beautiful.

This pose makes the model look very unshapely and awkward. I do not find this to be a flattering photo of a beautiful girl.

Sorry, but I am going to disagree with the comment above. The lighting feels very fake to me, and frankly detracts from what could feel like a very natural portrait. It looks like she was hit hard with some heavy flashes, fine if you are in the studio, but awkward with the wood around her. I find the christmas lights to be a bit colloquial as well.

 

What I am trying to say is that I am not sure what type of look you were going for here. The girl is definitely beautiful, no question about that, but I am not sure what this picture was really for. If you want the natural outside shot, wait for the sunlight to be going down over the tops of the hills and take some pictures of her just as the sky turns to gold. Maybe bounce some soft light onto her with a reflector, but keep the bright lights out!

I think if you had shot this at higher f-stop, it might have had a very interesting and different feel (because the letters would not be as blurry and would subsequently have more meaning). So, why did you shoot through the letters? (it is a little tough to see it is in fact an "e" and not a "c", or quite possibly even an "o".)

Is this supposed to be oriented this way? Either way (horizontal or vertical, it feels awkward. I also wish you had not cropped the edges of the petals. It confuses me as to what exactly I am supposed to be looking at. (The whole flower, or just the pistol? If it is just the pistol, why didn't you get closer?)

The whole thing looks soft? Maybe it is just over-saturated (especially in the reds) and I lose the detail in the flowers that should be in focus. The grey in the background doesn't help much either.

Take a cue from one of my favorite photos! Keep working this idea out. This one didn't quite capture the magic, but playing with some DOF, subject, and background, you will take some beautiful photos like this. Keep it up!

All comments and critiques are greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Thank you for the comment!

 

It is difficult to create a photo studio out of a dim hospital ward where everyone was required to scrub down and wear masks and gloves! (but Thure)

 

To me, this photo is more about my best friend Thure battling leukemia in his colorful way. Even in a hospital ward, you cannot hide his personality.

All comments and critiques are greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This is Aaron Krinsky, founder of Veomed, watching fireworks in Laguna Beach on the

4th of July.

 

All comments and critiques are greatly appreciated!

This mostly works for me.

 

I would consider an even more widescreen crop. It could maybe work. *shrugs*

Fun photo, but as a single image, it tends to lack any emotion or strong message. I think you can do more!

Something about her nose makes me not like this photo.

 

I think it might be better in portrait layout instead of landscape--then her face would not be bifurcated.