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I found my daughter sleeping after playing 'princess' around the

house. I couldn't help but take the camera, flash and capture her

dreaming.

I wonder if the concept is clear? What do you think?

-greetings, Gerard.

Here I was trying an alternative composition for a portrait. What do

you think?

-kr, Gerard.

Antony,

Thanks for the comment. Sorry that I made a mistake in my critique request. I must have said:

"I found it quite personal and like the soft approach but I'm not 100% convinced given that the eye on the back is OOF."

Funny how it changed the whole meaning of my question. :-) The question is: How the OOF eye affects the image?

-greetz, Gerard.

I'd like to know your thoughts on this portrait. I found it quite

personal and like the soft approach but I'm not 100% convinced that

the eye on the back is OOF. What do you think?

-greetz, Gerard

Hi,

I'm trying to develop my portrait photography. I appreciate the

feedback you may have on this image. What's ok. what can be better?

thanks!

-greetz, Gerard.

Megan,

It's an interesting subject and you have done good with the B&W approach. Yet, you need to achieve some separation from the messy background behind it.

Placing a black card behind (that you can carry folded in your bag) would help a lot enhancing this shoot.

KR, Gerard.

A slug eating (my precious) flowers in the garden.

It took me lot of sweat to get the pic. What do you think? Was it

worth? What's ok and what could be better?

-greetz, Gerard.

Horse Fly at 5x optical magnification. The fly was standing on a

blue hortensia (it's not an artificial background!) and lighted with

a hotshoe flash off camera on the side.

What do you think of it composition-wise? Points to improve?

Thanks for your thoughts...

kind regards, Gerard.

An experiment with light, water and ink. What do you think?

greetz, Gerard.

Hi Mandar,

Actually I started playing with the ink in a small water tank I made with some photo ideas in mind. After the first drops of ink, I found that I was no giving me much more than a colour splash so I started looking for alternatives. These glasses are waiting to be broken on stone (another idea I've :-) and I found they fitted perfectly in the small tank. I filled everything with water and started dropping ink again, this time with a much better shape ;-)

-greetz,

Gerard.

Hello Mandar,

Thanks for the comment!!! It was actually done in a very limited space in our small kitchen. The background is nothing fancier than a piece of standard paper lighted with a hotshoe flash. It provides the needed backlight to illuminate the vodka glasses.

The difficult part was to get the ink to co-operate :-)

-kr,

Gerard.

What do you find of this image? Is it dynamic enough?

Cropped from full frame to square format.EOS 5D + EF 100 f/2.8 + 580 EX in softbox.

-greetz, Gerard.

A bit late for the season :-) I wonder what do you think about it.

Thinks you like and the ones you'd improve.

-regards, Gerard.

My daughters were playing the other day with these small beads to

make necklaces. Before taking care of the dissaster they left on

the table, I thought I saw a nice creative scene.

Your thoughts are welcome!

-regards, Gerard.

Detail of frost in a early winter morning.

It's side-back lighted with a single 580EX flash.

I wonder what do you find of it, specially of the composition.

-regards,

Gerard.

David,

Thanks for your comment!. I made the honeycomb with pieces of black straws (the normal straws for drinks). I cut the straws in pieces of 2cm and glued them together making the same size and shape than the flash head. Then I put an elastic band of 5cm width arround. That makes a 3 cm border that snaps on the flash head. Neat and cheap :-). Let me see your results if you make yours.

-regards,

Gerard.

Hi all,

I'm making my first steps in portrait/model photography. I'd appreciate your feedback on what's good, what can be improved and what you miss in this image.

greetings, Gerard.

got you :-) Je zie mijn commentaar op photograaf... :-)

-groetjes,

Gerard.

Thanks so much everybody! I've been away for sometime after moving from house and changing from job. It's a real warm welcome back :-)
Let's try to answer the questions:

This image was not 'observed' but created having the theme 'autumn' in mind. It started in my (crazy) head instead than in the nature. I asked my daughter to find leaves for me and I got LOADS of them (somebody has a leaf shreder? :-)

I taped the bottom of a milky white plastic box (from IKEA) with autumn leaves and choose the ones with more special shapes as subjects. This one was the 3rd in the row.

I lighted the background from the top of the box using a 550EX speedlite. Shooting through the box acted as a natural diffusor, giving soft light to the background.
This leaf has hanged with clips under the kitchen faucet which I opened just enough to drop. I followed the natural flow of the water on the leaf to see where it was giving a nice effect. Here, you can see that the water was running on the inside of the leaf.

The leaf and drops where lighted with a 580EX as close as possible to reduce output to the minimal. This is needed to have very high flash speeds (up to 1/10000) and freeze completely the movement. That's why the water drop looks like an icycle.

Thanks again for all the nice comments!
-warm regards in a cold winter,Gerard.

Does this image 'speak' autumn to you? I'd love to hear your

thoughts.

kr, gerard.

Calin,

Maybe an idea to play with: Lily "painted" with light

-regards, Gerard.

Calin,

I like the tight framing you achieved here. I agree with Dominique about the change of angle. Actually, I think you could boost the impact of the picture by slightly backlighting the stems sothat they stand out from the white petals. A bit more DoF wouldn't hurt neither.

-regards, Gerard.

I don't get the wet here. I'm with Knicki in that it looks like an aquarium pipe clamped with the pins. Yet, it does not 'trigger' a wet impression.

The blue colours are nice but your pins are a bit washed out (mind the pun! :-)

I'm curious to hear what were PT thoughts on this one

-regards, Gerard (intermitent back&gone again...)

Krister, this on-flight technique is amazing. Really good done!. (I'm even more amazed at how you could capture the "gift" in focus for the explanatory image. How much magnification are you using here? About 3X ? WOW again! It takes me ages to focus on fairly slow subjects at those magnifications.

-regards,

Gerard.