watchcow

Reminds me of a trip i took in the NE once. visited Calvin Coolidge State park in Vermont. Seems like that whole place looked like and old Cannondale cyclotouring products catalog.

 

 

I was going to guess a pile O roscoe gels. or a macro shot of one of those funky iridescent bows you put on christmas presents.

Perhaps a satin sheet or something with a comfortably crinkled texture that might evoke more of the romantic or homey feeling to this portrait.

either the statuary or the building could have been a more attractive photo. combining both with that much variation in the distance and exposure adds to the distraction. havning both viewed at an awkward angle is a bit distracting as well. it looks like this is as much a test of extreme depth of field as anything and in that regard i think you did quite well. some distance or another position might have given the balance of the image a bit less skewed appearance.

He looks a bit pissed off tho. in anthropomorphic terms "hurry up and take the picture, i have better things to do."

 

black cats are difficult to photograph without low contrast film or a bit of digital tweaking later.

this is almost a classic shot. its not unusual for these less formal shots to have some silliness or shyness. i don;t know what the full frame looke dlike but this is a case where i woudl have either gone a bit wider to get some space around the couple. or gotten a lot tighter and clipped the bottom of the frame at about the waist level so the faces were a more dominant portion of this image.

The colors are interestng, the boat being so prominent and then the mast getting chopped is distracting. my inclinatiuon would have been to get back a bit and make a horizontal composition out of this scene and let the boat, mast and all, be in it as a "big little" a tiny part of the total image that give the whole image some sense of scale. as it is, it is technically a good photograph, focus and exposure are good, but the content doesn't give me any idea of what is actually going on or the mood, no person is in it, the boat is new so it is not conveying any sense of lonliness or desolation. if it was just about the pretty light then the boat isn't really needed. this looks like a normal or maybe moderate wide angle was used, there is not much distortion so i was guessing 35-50mm. If i had one available i think i would have tried a bit wider lens. maybe a 24mm? did you use a polarizer to try to get the actual water colors or is a lot of that lightness reflections?

 

i do like the image, its one i would put in my album if it were from my vacation or honeymoon, (in that case i would want the spousal unit lounging on the boat ) but i am not sure its a wall hanger. capturing falling light like this is a trying process because its very dificult to repeat results. i think this is a good effort.

This image is of a statue that is part of the Oklahoma City bombing

memorial. I think there is some power in this image but i am having

difficulty in getting the right mood. A gray day like this one does

not seem to offset the statue adequately. there are stone pillars all

around this statue that are very distracting. the only way i can

think to frame it wthout them in the way would be to figure out a way

to get up higher than the head of the statue with the camera.

 

It might work as it is, but somehow i think i missed the mark, any

suggestions?