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Church roof in Omotesando on a cloudless day

One of the most famous structures in the world. I hope my photo did justice to its

unique beauty.

I usually go for cleaner architectural abstracts but I liked this wat'chama-call-it statute when

I saw it and tried to capture it from an unusual angle. Neighborhood is the new building

complex called "the Midtown" in Tokyo. I also used three frame HDR to improve the range a

bit without making the photo appear too artificial.

Very nice. I've got a soft spot for architectural abstracts. This one just hit the spot. Love the colors too. This would also work great on a square format. IMHO. Especially if you crop out the little blip on the left and the orange/white strip between the black columns on the right. When I do that manually on the screen, the ceiling light takes my eyes from upper-left of the photo and carries it all the way to the black-hole in the lower-right. I like the camera tilt as well. The more I look at it, the more I like this photo. Well done.

Tokyo International Forum is an amazing building designed by Rafael Vinoly. It is a giant

steel truss structure with a full glass facade on the west side. The complexity of the truss

structure makes it difficult to capture a continuous and clean segment for a photo frame. I

had to take a number of shots of the amazing ceiling from various angles, picked this frame

to post, and cropped it to eliminate the clutter on the sides. For more on the TIF, http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Tokyo_International_Forum.html

Appreciate comments. Thanks.

This is my first public posting ever, so be gentle... Appreciate comments.

God I love this! I am a big sucker for "clean architectural abstracts". if this were to be a technical term one day, I believe this shot would do a good job in explaining it.

I would have named this photo "Natural teeth". It would be a perfect "before" shot on a dentist's wall :-)

Joke aside this is a great capture of a natural smile as you have eloquently put. My only humble suggestion would be for the tight and fast shading around the subject's head especially on his left side.

Pick anyone of the following and it will explain how I feel right now:

 

"Photos like this make me want to throw away my camera"

 

"Everytime I gain some courage to post my very first photo, I see something like this which sends me back to the drawing board"

 

"Trying to praise this work with words is a sin"

 

OK I may have exagerated a bit here, but on a more serious note your entire portfolio is quite impressive. I will come back to it again and try to learn from your landscape techniques, at a minimum to educate my eyes and brain which I am afraid may have been irreparably damaged by my engineering training.

 

I hope you don't give in to some of the negative attitude of some members and keep posting your work. I do believe PN is a good site which attracts more good than the bad.

 

Regards

Very smart title!

I can almost feel the softness of her feathers! Congrats.

I like the blending of B&W and pastel colors in the composition. It is a pleasing capture overall. One little humble advise from me would be trying to eliminate the shadows of pencils above on the pencils below, may be using multiple sources of light or a fill-flash...

Very original idea. Great composition and choice of lighting. Beautiful hands too. If I may suggest one way to improve this great composition, I would say create the reflection using PS. The blurry thumnails are a bit distracting and your creative idea is too good to not make it perfect unless you are a "sans PS" Photograper.

Nice capture of the "connection" between the two heart-warming smiles. I want to say the background is a bit over-exposed, but then it puts more emphasis on your subjects without a chance for distraction. Besides the red-bars add color and fill the void. I also like the tilt. It may not be a very original photo, but definitely one of those that captures the "right moment" in an artistic way. IMHO.

I thought symmetry is a bad thing in a frame. This must be one of those perfect examples where the rules can be broken (by only those who have a good command of the art) to create something original. Well done.

For most of the visitors of this site, this may be a B&W portrait of a beautiful woman captured with a earthly natural composition?. But, those of us who know about how she started her fame and how she evolved and re-invented herself over and over again through the years can really appreciate how well this photo captures what may be going on behind those beautiful green eyes. I am not a photo critique, or an internet junkie, but I feel obliged to give a bit of a background to set a ?non-visual? context to this photograph.

 

Hulya Avsar is a beauty queen turned actress turned singer turned magazine publisher turned TV host turned business woman (may not be in the same order, but you got the point) of our times in modern Turkey. She is a smart woman, mother to a beautiful daughter, ex-wife to a cheating husband, and a headstrong woman to stand tall on her own in a male dominant society, under the constant pressure from the paparazzi (and we all know that they are the bottom dwellers of the camera wielding society). What she has done to herself and to her life is nothing to be underestimated.

 

So you may be wondering why I wrote all this?!? ? When I look at this photograph, as soon as I connect with her eyes, it makes me remember her roller-coaster life in a split-second. Kind of like what they say when you are about to die your entire life goes by before your eyes. This photo makes me think of ?her? life and wonder about what she might be thinking at the moment of this shot. Her mother? A past mistake from her youth? The day her daughter was born? A secret lover when she was a teenager? What to cook tonight? Her wedding night?... In the end, I am surprised that I know so much about her and it?s been over 10 years since I moved out of Turkey!?

 

Now I suggest you go back to the photo and see if it makes you feel the same? Surprisingly enough, though, those who commented on this photo sensed the depth of her mood and her thoughts by just looking at it without knowing anything about her life. I say that?s the power of photography in general and this shot in specific! My deepest respect to Ceylan whose work I will now follow closely and try to learn from.

 

PS: She is much prettier in person, by the way. I still remember the day I ran into her at the entrance of a hotel when I was in Turkey for business. It?s one of those memories you remember in slow motion.

 

PPS: No. I am not a high-school student with a crush on a celebrity! It?s been 20 years since I graduated from one though!

 

PPPS: I am an amateur photographer with a Nikon D200 and a couple of high-end lenses. To date, I have worked with one single subject only? my one and only love... my daughter of 15 months. I want to submit her photos to this site, but I am a bit intimidated by the quality of the members? portfolios here. May be in a couple of months or so?

This is not a place for political polemics. Istanbul is Istanbul with every single brick, tree, and soul in it...