dgilson

I really like this photo. The catch light in the eyes. The smile. The colors.

The only nit is the color of her skin. It seems a little green to me.

Have you adjusted the color temp/tint? If not you might want git that a try.

Nice! Great pose and lighting. 

2 nits: Shopping off the head and it could be a touch brighter. 

Really like the eyes!

I really like the lighting the and texture of the wall.

The model pose is also interesting.  

Thanks for sharing. 

I like everything about this photo except the color of the leotard.  It fades into the background.  My suggestion would be to either change the background color or change the leotard color. 

Lighting is good.  I like the eye contact of the model. The pose is a series of triangles. Keeps my eyes bouncing around looking at the model. 

I hope this helps.  

...Dan

Nice tones. I really like the geometry. 

This is a perfect picture for the saying...

It is not what you show,  it is how you don't show it. 

The photo has a nice balance,  good eye contact and a pretty lady who is just teasing the audience,  saying look at me.

Does it really matter what category it goes in? 

Some reasons for the 8 loco's:

On a really heavy train they might need 8 even on relatively flat areas.  

They might need to release some of the loco's at a different places along the route.

The freight might be under a very tight schedule and they don't have enough fuel to make it straight through on a set of 4 so they can alternate using the other 4.  The belly tanks hold >2000 gallons of diesel.  Even with a 20Gal/min pump it takes a while to fill.  Also diesel foams when pumped at high speed.  So you have to pump then wait for the foam to die back then pump some more.  

Or a mix of the above. 

I wonder how many cars on the train.  When I was in high school we got stuck behind a 8 loco.  It had 124 cars most with heavy equipment.  It was only a few miles from the yard and at best was moving only a few mph.   We were there for almost an hour watching it go by.  Glad the parents were not upset getting home later than we supposed to. 

I have come back to this photo twice now.  It has a nice balance (Black -> white).  Rule of 3rds. 

Gregory and Verena - Thanks

Stephen - Yes I used a polarizer and the normal UV filter.  At ~10500 feet in elevation and near sunset this is pretty much right out of the camera.  A little cropping.  You have a good eye. 

A still really does not do this justice. The light move and change. Video is

really a better medium for this.

Bristle cone pine trees are the oldest living things on earth.

They live above the tree line at elevations above 9500 feet.

The parking lot for the visitor's center is a 10001 feet. This tree is a few

hundred feet higher.

What do you think? Suggestions?

Pretty cool!  It kept my interest while I picked out the details. 

Someone asked me why they can't see me in the reflection. The answer is

in the Subject line. I am actually there but too small to see.

Alf, thanks for the comments.  I have a few different angles of this.  One as you suggest. The clouds rolled in just minutes before I took this series.   A few minutes later they blocked the sun and the light was gone. 

Your model has some very nice muscle tone.  Very well defined back, shoulders and arms. 

A young bored assistant? 

I really like the shot.  The DOF brings you right to the centered eye.  

I really like the tones on this.  The sky is wonderfully handled too. 

I really like the difference in lighting between actual and the reflection.  Nicely handled.  

I think the right side picture could easily stand alone. His face is priceless. LOL.  I would also be interested is seeing more of the sequence.

I really like this portrait.

The eyes are fantastic.  The fading focus on the left side is nice keeping the attention on the eyes.  Really nice.

To figure out what it was.

The title says it all.

With a magna shock no less.