evan.lavine

Like the cropping, would have liked the eyes sharper, though.

Cheers M! I appreciate your kindness and have a healthy holiday and new year!

All in Camera except for boost in saturation. Intentional Camera

Movement (ICM)

Are you only looking for praise?

hi Gary,

Thank you very much for your comment, I really appreciate it!

absolutely beautiful, well taken and the splash of color really helps a lot!

good job!

Evan

Hi Maury,

It is the real thing with the mini effect in Photoshop. I tried the lensbaby's and have not been happy with them in the slightest. I usually like to get most of my work in camera but for this type of work, without having an actual tilt-shift lens, I find this to be better.

Regards,

Evan

Thank you,

Evan

Excellent use of ICM! I might have cropped off the white on the top, but that is just a personal choice (I have left this on many of my photos and now can see that it might look better without)! Still, excellent work!

regards,

Evan

a good start but somethings to make it stronger, in my opinion:

a) move them to the right. The tree is distracting as it is coming out of the head of the woman sitting down and also the woman standing. If you used a different f/stop it would blur it out a bit but not enough so I think moving them off center (which would be stronger compositionally regardless) would be ideal.

b) natural light is great - I prefer to use natural light instead of portable strobes/fill flashes as much as possible. The one thing I have regardless is a reflector to bounce light. I think some more detail could be drawn out in the faces where shadows are forming (the woman sitting down) which may be caused by the standing woman over her.

very good capture - raw piece of work here!

Hey Dumas! Thank you my friend! Let the blurry fall begin!

thanks Boris for your thoughts, appreciated!

Thank you Lynn!

Besides boosting a bit of saturation and a bit of desaturating a bit, this is straight from camera. I still am not sure what I think of the white but could not think of a better way to crop without loosing the rest of the piece.

I am glad you like and commented, it is appreciated!

evan

A lovely day on Eastern Long Island.

Regards,

Evan

This is a stark photo that I have enjoyed viewing. I notice, though, the severe amount of .jpg compression/artifacts and hope the original does not suffer from such?

Great shot, nevertheless!

evan

thank you trisha and szamot!!! : )

Thank you for your thoughts,

Evan

many thanks Svetlana!!! : )

thanks Trisha - hope all is well!!! This one in particular looks great against a black background : )

cheers,

evan

Thanks Alon and Pierre! It is great to hear from you two and thanks for the kind words!

best always,

evan

Gives me the same feeling as did the "Fort Washington". When a photo draws you to speechless... is it good then. Well, i think so. It was a pleasure to visit here for a long time. Maybe the next has to come more sooner.

T:T

Tero you have no idea how great it is to hear from you my brother! I haven't been here too much lately, and I stopped at sig all together (even though parts of me misses it) due to the constant bickering about submissions/critiques blah blah blah...

Thanks for your thoughts on this piece. How the hell have you been, email me when you can privately evan.lavine@db.com

cheers bro,

evan

good shot!

evan

Thank you for your thoughts...

evan

Hmmm - I just looked on another monitor and now it appears to be better - so...don't always listen to me : )

regards,

evan