laurent-paul

Another of your excellent portraits !

Perfect composition, and the use of your dof with your lighting is creating an incredibly strong narrative which is as well as open to all kind of interpretations.

 

*edit ... >> changed an old "but" into "and" ^^

That is a hell of a photo ! I'm really amazed about how you shot the bridge : timing positions refelctions are absolutely perfect : it looks like the pillars are going down without any end and we completely loose all sense of depth and balance, even more so with the buildings looking like they just happen to be standing in top of the bridge, not far away in the background.

 

And the time you choose, neither night nor day, and still both at the same time accentuate the confusion and transforms it completely.

This portrait is my favorite of all your portraits of Jen : composition, light, the amount of soft focus, but especially all the emotions seem to be at the same time very strong, as well as beeing under control.

 

It's not only my favorite portrait in this serie, it is one of my favourite portraits.

I agree with Carrie : it really does look like some strange but beautifull language. Nice execution.

 

Just love this one : THis really is the night bus experience, not "just" a photo

The tension in an unsual, almost uncomfortable position for the model in total opposition with her stillness is actually creating a very dramatic effect for me.

 

And I love the color grading you are using here and for this serie.

I love it ! I actually think it wouldn't have worked so well if you used a filter while shooting or in post production.

There is for me a really interesting parallel with you obviously not in the best of shape and they way you have been taking this autoportrait.

 

You are here taking photos no matter how your body decides to "act", and you are so much here, that it is difficult to make the difference between the city and yourself.

 

( I just hope you feel better now than when you took this photo )

Thank you for your time and for your feedback

Thank you for your time and for your feedback

Actually I ALWAYS look carefully at photos ( and images in general ) which are attracting me.

 

This is why I can't use the the Rate Factory page, were you can't really see the photos in the proper format the photographer choose to upload it,

 

because it is very important to read not only the title, but eventualy what the photgrapher wrote as an introductory or explaining text to his/her phtography,

 

because it is also for me extremely important to understand the whole artisitc or technical or philosophical approach of the photographer, so If I'm attracteds by a photo of a photographer I didn't notice before, I'll spend the time to go through the whole portfolio.

 

That is also why there are a few photographers I have now been a bit more familiar with the work, and who are ( as you are ) the photographer, I'll always visit very regularly, with attention and in priority before going to the critique forum were I can discover new exciting photographers.

 

Take care

laurent

... how memories about an image can evolve and change.

 

And this is not only because of a specific monitor ( I went to look at the photo again on the monitor I used yesterday )

 

This is actually fantastic : I have a surprise every time I look at the photo ...

 

And I agree with your balance ( even more today than yestarday ;-) ), it is just that for me, the balance, interestingly , is slowly unveiling while having a good look, instead of beeing jumping at our face.

Not only does this photo express the first meaning of the french word " Singularite", but it also evoques very strongly the mathematical definition, whcih is a bit different, and more specifique.

 

At the same time a "play of words" as well as a "play of images"

Did you lift up the exposure, and whole balance ? The photo now seems brighter and less contrasty than it was in my memory of yesterday's viewing of it ...

Experimentation about how to create a " 3D" or effect on a normal

monitor .

 

 

Thank you for your time and for your feedback

Before answering more in detail to everybody, just a quick answer to Susmit :

You have to learn that I'm a very lazy guy : so I refuse to take too much time on post processing the photos ;-)

More seriously : it is for me much more challenging and therefore more fun to get the image as good as possible when using the camera.

 

Still on every single shots in my portfolio, there isn't any process which couldn't be done in a darkroom.

 

I usually don't do that, but here is a small version of the original ( only cropped to keep the whole original, but this is straight from the camera )

 

 

I love this one a lot : what is supposed to be in motion and falling, just .. isn't when the characters who are supposed to be sitting at the table are the one moving.

The surimposition of the profile behind the head of the dancer is excellent ! And I ilke very much the patterns of the shadows on the back of the dancer.

 

I was a bit confused at first with the waiter in the back who is so lit. But then after taking time to look at the photo, and realising that he is the observer of the scene at an angle that is forbidden for our won eyes, meaning that he can't himsef appreciate the illusion of the two faces. And that's probably why he looks worried.

This is a wonderfull photo : All the kids in motion but each of them in a very different pause, each of them showing personality eventhough they are shot in contra light .... I love it

Excellent ! the photo itself is a brilliant vision, but then, coupled with the title ... it goes directly to my favorites !

I Like the title. I like even more the photo : beeing swiss, i can relate very well with that image !

Thank you for your time and for your feedbacks

Slow shutter / at night / through the cab's window ...

 

I like the whole serie but this one is probably my favorite in term of composition and lighting as it is at the very edge of abstraction, and still is extremely sensual, which is not easy to achieve with high contrasts.

Both "devotion" portraits are wonderfull, and really have to be seen together, as they are showing two very different moods and dynamics as two movements in a same musical composition.

 

Perhaps ( but just a very personal idea, and not sure it would work ), as you already cropped the hand on top and part of the head on the left, you could crop even more the left part in order to completely remove the background between the shoulder and the head. ( it may reinforce the difference between the two shots, but may not be as intersting on this single photo ).

 

Anyway, these are beautifull portraits as they are.

What a fantastic visual symphony

I can't rate it as I should, therefore, it goes to my favourites.