garypeck

I love this series - even though you're augmenting her work - they stand alone as successfully independent image statements.

Post process is appropriate and well executed - very nice job.

Always - always level the camera!

Busy surrounding details are really competing with you objective.

Use post techniques to drive the eye - visually and tonally toward your main subject.

Love it, the symmetry and leticality is outrageous.

Love this: lose the wires in post. It will open up that lonely sky for you.

Good lens choice - POV - and FOV - nicely done.

I'm not sure - what you're trying to say with this image - perhaps you're unsure as well.

It's tonally flat - with competing areas of interest. 

There's camera movement throughout with the foreground a little less sharp than the rest - If it is selective focus, don't whisper when you can shout.

Clean your sensor and refine your vision.

Little emotional response possible from centered image -

Lighting is adequate - needs sense of place within all that black - finish the job by considering the importance of the background tones and shapes in relation to the dahlia.

Lighting is adequate yet unremarkable. Ill placed shadow from spout.

POV and lens choice predicable and pedantic - desperately needs a sense of place.

Chad, God bless you, I'm kidding but they're DUCK-BUTTS.

The shot is fine - I would have gotten on my belly and lowered the perspective to let the fog really play around the subjects. Then I'd pray for the wind to change so they are sideways or approaching. Most important I would recognize this is a snapshot and kept messing with lens - angle - shutter speed - something to create a difference and make it interesting. Look at it as a game (if that appeals to you).

You requested critiques, often if a shot is close but not quite there - it's hard to think of something constructive to say. this shot is one of those - not a snapshot - yet not entirely successful. I've got students who don't get the responsibility they acquire when the take and display an image. This is part of the process. Mom, wife or girlfriend will tell you "that's nice" and perhaps you'll believe them - don't.

9,999 to go - you're getting there - raise you standards (as i mentioned before).

Hope this helps.

g

A touch of mystery - wonder - great shot well executed.

gary

I see what your doing, but am slightly concerned about your choices.

You obviously dropped in the sky, now think about it - a beautiful soft light graces the building and you juxtapose it against an aggressive sky - why?

If your going to cut in a sky, us your pen tool and no feather, you'll avoid the white threshold around the roof line.

Why not match the intensity of the delicate light with an eqully delicate sky?

Re: the angle, my eye is getting hung up on the downspout in the foreground. hmmm

Good Job

Interesting shot, but did you make the most of the body painting?

Face and arms cover most of the frame, so what's your point? I'm not trying to be snotty, it's a question I ask myself all the time.

Would this work better as part of a series or triptyck, cu's, wideangle distortions, severe light with no fill to abstract even more. Who knows?