andy jones

is that Les with hair?! man I'm so out of touch...

Very nice. Definately the black and white - I might crop a bit of that dead space off the right though to move the flower off centre.

Great picture. I think the horizon is just right where you have it.

Nice composition. You might get more out of this scene if you were to go back and shoot it in the early evening when there's better light.

Nice composition.

Nice composition, tilted camera angle works well.

An excellent shot. Reminds me of something you might see in National Geographic.

Tom,

I put a net curtain over the window to soften the light. The room itself has quite pale walls so the light tends to bounce around a bit. It was a dull day too (fine British weather!) so that also helped. Exposure was 2 seconds at f22 on Neopan 400 and contrast range was about 5 stops.

 

I didn't need to do anything to the picture. It pretty much prints itself on grade 2. The scan you're looking at has lost some shadow detail (damn scanner) but the print looks about right.

 

Thanks again for the suggestions, I'll give them a try.

 

Andy

Tom, thanks for the suggestions -I think you're right about the background and the carpet idea sounds like it's worth a try. Originally I was going for the minimalist approach, but it leaves the picture lacking something.

 

Steve, the shot was lit using natural light from the window. I was trying to get those square window-like highlights you often see in illustrations of shiny objects. If you look in the reflection of the christmas decorations you can look all around my front room (and that's me trying to hide on the floor with the cable release in my hand :-) !

 

Andy

How would YOU improve this shot? What do you like/dislike

about it? Please comment.

Fab composition! Nice one Bill Hocker!

Fantastic photo! I'm not sure the coloured border works for me though.

I think the composition is great - but the shot looks too contrasty for me. I think I would have liked to see it printed a lot softer, with more detail in the lower left corner.

That's a nice shot. I like the crop, but my eye keeps going back toward the horizon because it's not quite level. I'd maybe turn/crop it to get the horizon right, but other than that it's great.

I really like this shot, but I find that the little triangle of sky at the bottom right of the picture is distracting and would crop it out. Nice one.