georgeseymour

Would have looked a lot better if the model didn't look so bored.

D G.

A reflection is what the water sees. Here its seeing the top back of the car's spoiler and top of the roof and inside of other side door, which are completely hidden from the water by the vehicle.

I took the image cut out the reflection, flipped it, pasted it back as a layer with 50% transparency and moved it to cover the upper image. There was a perfect match with no parts missing or out of place.

Real reflections don't match exactly as they are looking at the object from a different perspective to the one you are viewing it from.

Apart form that I like your portfolio especially the flying cat which first attracted to it.

Hi Jens.

You don't give any details about the lens and settings, and cropping of original image.

Judging by the sand grain this is a fairly small crab. They don't stay still for long, especially if you get too close, so I'm guessing you're using a fairly long lens. It's on auto-focus as its focused on the back of the crab with slight out of focus on the claws at each side. You seem to have quite a reasonable depth of field, so would guess you stopped down quite a bit. 

Could stop down to max lens allows but then shutter speed gets slow and camera shake sets in, this isn't a tripod type of shot unless you are very lucky or patient or both. High iso also adds noise.

Composition wise shows the crab and its habitat to good effect.

All in all good shot.

Hi.

Please keep on photographing your country with all its marvelous scenes and ways of life before they disappear in the headlong rush towards moderninity and a Western style culture. We've lost most of our quaint old ways and styles, and now have to look to the newly opened Eastern Block countries if we wish to find views of our former past, rather than the modern concrete jungle we've replaced it with.

Keep shooting.

When I first saw this image it was as part of your portfolio as one of many on a page and small.

I got the impression it was a tree standing out from a group of others, as the burns running down the mountain behind and reflected in the loch, look like brush in the small image, and it intrigued me. Only when I opened the image I saw that it was a single tree.

 

Possibly the tree was split by the cold freezing water caught in the cleft and expanding over a period of time, and/or the sap freezing. I've seen many trees, mostly pines, in Germany and Switzerland that have been snapped by the extreme cold, snapping off some way up the trunk, and it's not from the weight of snow they are carrying, but from the cold freezing them, causing the trunk to explode.

 

The tree probably still lives on as the fallen branches still have a connection to the roots.

Love your portfolio, especially the Glencoe shots, was there in 1994, and actually passed through when they were filming 'Highlander', we didn't realise at the time, the road was lined with people dressed strangely, all waiting for coaches to take them back to town. Fantastic scenery, first visited in 1964, and would love to go back again some time.

Great picture. I was searching for images with 'without' in the caption and this turned up. Definately a 'with it' picture.

 

It's amazing the images that turn up on wild searches.

 

Keep up the photography.

 

Just love it. What I aspire to.

Interesting concept, gives me ideas I'd like to try.

I live in this part of the world. (Les Iles du Marche-excuse my French).

 

I see backgrounds like this when the weather creates them.

 

You add the dream to the reality.

 

Beautiful.

The bottom line is.

 

Do you like it?

 

Would you pay money for it?

 

Would you hang it on your wall and want to look at it?

 

Can you do as well or better?

 

Photography is a means of helping people create an image they see in their brain, the capture is the first part, it may be the end part, or it may be the first stage. What counts is the end result, do YOU like it?

 

I do.

Nice sky pitty about the rest, a nice memory of a trip. Needs filters and a better vantage point, even a bit higher up would help. I sometimes carry a monopod (centre pole of a large studiolight tripod with self made bracket) that extends to 14 feet, and set the self timer and hoist the camera up to get a better view.

A little bit over exposed and eye doesn't appear to be quite sharp, but may be just the screen image.

Would be better without the second pier it distracts, did you try a shot from the right side, even holding the camera out over the hand rail?

Obviously the bird is an addition as the lighting is wrong on it, but it turns a sunset/rise into a beautiful picture with the water theme continued in the bird. I prefer being able to see detail in the bird rather than the silhouette the main image would dictate. Very nice.

Great picture of a man at work and meat on the hoof. Makes one realize how easy most of us have it.

I hope he wasn't to affected by the recent eathquake in those parts. This is where photography can bring home the reality of life to us.