larose

Brought a tear to my eye -- startin' him out young... :-)

 

Thanks for such a heartwarming photo!

Increase your exposure time. In order to keep the light, you would also need to either lower your aperture (which would put the background buildings in less focus as well, a good thing given you want to keep the dogs the main subject), lower your ISO (you're outside in healthy light anyway), or a combination of both. A longer lens would also keep the subjects in focus, blurring out the background, and allow you to increase your exposure to let in more time and light.

 

Thanks for sharing your photo!

I really like the way the light falls on the front of his face and the darkness merging in from behind him. The angles and lines are powerful -- the angle of his forehead and nose almost perpendicular to that of his neck.

 

However, the small piece of window (itself very straight and structured) so close to his nose is distracting from the man's form and its light pulls away from the light on his face.

 

Thank you for submitting your photo.

Hi Manthy,

 

I feel that this photo isn't portraying, perhaps, what you might have wanted it to portray.

 

I will presume that the structure is the focus of your scene.

 

The different colors for each apartment is interesting. The repetition of the structure differentiated by the colors would give me a focus in wanting to show that in the photo. In this way, I would've widened my shot but not given so much attention to the water and the rocky and grassy background by not including these two pieces, or by including very little. The canisters above the structure in the photo are domineering to the scene and detracting from the structure's presence., so those would be cropped.

 

If, however, I wanted to show that this man-made structure was set amongst the beauty (or cruelty) of the landscape, then I would've either included more of the background, showing the structure as a smaller piece of its surroundings, or shown the expanse of the water on which it is fronted.

 

All in all, I think you could really have an interesting shot as long as you can give voice, internally or otherwise, to what you are wanting to say with it.

 

Thank you for submitting your photo. :-)

This is what my son's room would look like after HE cleaned it. (hmm, so that's where all the socks go...)

Have you tried converting these into black and white? I took photos at a concert a couple of months ago and thought I'd try b/w after 20-30 minutes into the show. Not only do the photos of the band members look sharper, but the b/w helps to eliminate stage distractions when wanting to photograph closer-ups of a band member.

 

Check out the attached and also my gallery for a couple more shots (Avenged Sevenfold, St. Petersburg, FL, Nov 24, 2007).

 

 

I was JUST taking photos of the moon, myself, last night.

 

As with mine, I have a bit of blur due to not using a tripod (missing my camera-to-tripod attachment, I swear I locked it onto my tripod after I used it last).

 

I did, however, lay flat on the ground with my telephoto lens and did all sorts of breathing and non-breathing techniques to keep the camera as still as possible. Still not satisfied with my results. I'm looking forward to the full moon later this week, weather-willing (and after I purchase another spare attachment).

Thanks, David, for making a mother feel guilty.

 

;-)

Oh my goodness (though, paraphrased), this is awesome.

 

Of course, I already knew before I clicked on the photo that I'd be the millionth person to comment wonderfully on this.

Yes, including more of the post as well as any sunset color towards the bottom would have been another nice shot. The glowing color from the lamp would have been a nice balance between the two sets of colors, with the bird perched above it all.

 

Thank you, Lauren, for sharing your photos. :-)

There seems to be too much information at the top of the photo (unremarkable sky -- flat and uninteresting), and not enough at the bottom of the photo (there seems to be texture and light/shadows down there). The trees are beautiful -- perhaps closing in on a select few with the moon in between them would have given the picture better contrasting objects -- the dark branches with snow caps and the lesser contrast of the moon within some branches.

 

I love the look of winter.

 

Thank you.

This is, actually, a boring photo. This is one of those pictures where the heart (or, rather, the stomach) takes over the eyes and head, like taking a picture of a loved one and seeing the loved one rather than seeing the composition, color, etc.

 

I agree that the angle could have been wider. Also, there is not so much color -- should've added ketchup, too, but that would've ruined the taste. Maybe a little more green peppers (yuk, too). The original purpose of the purchase was to eat.

 

The purpose of the *photo* was to include the viewer in the desire of wanting the sausage. The foreground was supposed to help that, but there was not enough of a foreground. The sausage, itself, can't even be seen. There's too much onion. And the color of the onion doesn't give anything to the picture. The picture, overall, is too dark, and the noise above the sausage is distracting.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Nice overall, but the sky seems unremarkable to include so much of it over the bird's head. Since you're shooting from below the bird, cropping some of the top could give the bird a more majestic stature, perhaps.

Thank you.

Thank you.

thank you

thank you for critique.

I wanted to keep the foreground in the picture, and the blurriness to

give one the feeling of being included in the scene. The extreme

highlight on the cross and also placing it on the horizontal midline

gives it a look of having been taken in the times when the only

cameras were b/w (though this photo was taken w/in the last year).

 

I would appreciate ideas, comments, thoughts on how I could improve

on this scene.

 

Thank you for your much-appreciated feedback.

(there are more shoes in my B&W Other Portfolio for those of you with

a foot fetish!)

 

Thank you for your comments, critique.

There is an uncropped version in my B&W Nature Portfolio as well.

 

I appreciate comments, critique, and/or ratings. Thank you!

I really like the composition of this photograph. The out-of-focus background at right keeps the setting grounded while capturing with clarity the antics of such an animated child.

Thank you, David, for your feedback. I will keep a better eye on keeping highlights under better control.

 

The grass in the foreground somewhat obscuring the umbrella gives a feeling of voyeurism, however. Perhaps I could do better in giving my photos a description more pertinent to what I was trying to set out with the photo, which would elicit critiquing of a more helpful area in that way.

 

Nonetheless, I value your critique! Again, thank you for lending your eye to my work.

I increased my ISO to 800 because I wanted my exposure time to be as

short as possible (low light) to get some ripple definition and also

to add a bit of graininess.

 

This was cropped heavily (also adding to the graininess) as my

original idea of including much more reflection in the pond didn't

work so well due to having too much uninteresting sky.

 

Comments/critique are always very much appreciated.