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GerrySiegel

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    Beautiful in red

    An admirable result. Modeling on the figure is superb. And the hand pose does not look forced at all but gentle. I do not agree with the value added by the so called bokeh effect. It seems to give the model a floating effect whereas a location in space is sometimes better for a sharp realistic pose. Of course this is an artistic choice. The use of red gauze is not overdone. Meaning the emphasis on the figure study is not overshadowed by a kind of prop. Overall, a photo one can call a great success. I like it a lot, Andrew. Aloha, Gerry
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    Geneviève

    A very pleasing portrait. Shows her personality. If I had any suggestion it would be that in a face shot like this it is welcome to have a little more light in the eyes, which are very dark due to the lighting. So, perhaps you might think of ways to reflect a small bit of the sun into the eye area. I like it a lot. Good work.
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    A simple yet fetching pose. With very nice lighting for a figure study. Just enough facial modeling to make the gaze interesting. Well done.
  4. Marchioni from about 1940. Leitz for a reasonable solid approximation of original. Star D for cheap aluminum knock offs. Now I have not idea who uses the name. I would add that a combo of legs and head is less than what the market offers most of the time. And offers less versatility. Yet it was a long lived item for the photographic world we live in. Collets on the Star D were cheap and the parts lacked good fit and finish. But it looked good when I bought it once long ago in the Loop Chicago. Saved for someone who nags to borrow a tripod, but not to a best friend i hasten to add.. :)
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    DSC_7014

    Nice horse...actually a good motion shot. Has the feel of the corral and the competition. I like it and job well done.
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    windy

    Has a nice rythm to it. Black background. that is a matter of taste. i like to see a subject placed in a frame more defined. But this one surely works for this model. Full of life and energy.
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    Chrystalline

    Simple but attractive. We have to keep our eyes open for light and patterns, good one.
  8. New York to Louisiana. How about NY area to Honolulu. B and H has upped their shipping and packing and they typically over pack in my opinion. I have had few returns and problems . Their customer service is definitely more responsive than other outfits I have worked with. I can see no alternative but to stick with a place that has a measurably good track record. So, if you are interested in advice, give the company a fair shot at making it right. UPS here is good too. So I am lucky. And I order a raft of stuff all the time from East Coast vendors. It comes by outrigger canoe but it gets here..:-)
  9. Incident can be useful any place. Both of my meters have reflected attachments. I you go to KEH you can for example get a reflected attachment for the Luna Pro or Luna Six for about ten dollars. I have one for my Minolta 1V which is useful. If one is in the similar light of a scene, one can use incident without much fear of being that far off. Reflected can be fooled pretty easily is what I am saying. Experience and mutliple shots does the trick. At one time we even had to "calibrate " a meter to take account of other non controlled variables. It is easier with modern digital cameras that can bracket in various ways. My Sekonic like yours gave up the ghost. Remember the Norwood Director if you are old enough :-)?
  10. it does get painful to read these unsolvable glitches. I am presuming that the owners have licensed a pre packaged hunk of software. One with options. Now who is handling the orchestration of the piece is a question that is beginning to look like maybe nobody that has 1) the expertise or 2) the priority. Expectations can get lower but the bottom seems to be not in sight. I take no pleasure in holding such views.
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    Courtney

    Cherene. To add a motivation and perhaps clarification if my comment and intent is misread. I love to flatter my female models ( from teen to maturity ). Not glamorize. But I will suggest make up choice and color choice and even some comment on how a piece of jewelry looks. And if a bra string is hanging out...that kind of stuff. Stay warm. Gerry
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    Courtney

    My' preference'is expressed in my comments. To each his own style. What I do like is the open honest sweet face and I do not want to detract from the positive features you have caught Cherene. I would be pleased to have captured this young lady. ( but I might have STILL made the suggestion anyway re garment. ) I wish you well. Aloha. GS
  13. Has a golden glow that is most becoming. I like this shot of our young friend, John.
  14. Getting acquainted with what they call an upscale compact pocket size camera. In Hawaii we do not wear pants with big pockets and only rarely are jackets in order, though this Winter catches one with a sweater if you are too adapted to the tropics. I like the feel of the beast and I am not sure I will paste on a grip stick on where the finish is totally completely smooth. I am like a gecko in holding cameras, they rarely slip. But am thinking on that. ( The Canon G models I have looked at have modest but useful grippy sections and thumb wrest and they are well though out. Getting small and making sure no accidental pushes is getting to be a designer thrill flight... It has no selfie articulated LCD and I do not seek one....i could use WI FI and operate it via an IPAD even better.. It has a wee mini optical electronic finder that is barely usable but it is there. Tripod bush. Well located on off switch not likely to be moved.. EVF small so big deal.. But one can see the target and hope you got it in the image. The LCD is the cats meow though. Sharp and full featured.. It has so many functions to satisfy the demanding still and video user and good battery life..very good indeed. Includes stop motion animation, burst shots, 4 K video AVCHD MOV 4 and ability to splice and dice video in camera. Whodathunkit? Slow motion and fast motion. Panorama mode though I have never seen the attractiion and tried it once or twice. Good range on lens, not a super anything but good enough for most day to day without the heavy artillery...this is the new generations MINOX James Bond with big hands model eh? And too too many scene modes and three custom setting modes, about two more than I need. And an easy to use touch screen. One thing I have that is a continuing pet peeve about a lot of digitals is the situation where you say, hey how the hell do I get the EVF back on or how do I get the flash function back? It is a matter of the dependencies that is the evil thing! So if you pressed HDR and bracket mode why would you expect the flash to keep up, dumbkopf? But one can spend many an irritating minute trying to recall what one might have done....Siri, get me back to where I was yesterday!!! Book writer for micro four thirds say the dependencies are too many for him to lay out on a grid....i think not. Company could do it....save a lot of forum squawking with HELP requests saying I think my camera done gone broke. Anyway, for 550. I got the camera, a spare battery and a charger and a pouch, black Case Logic and a 32 meg SD card and i get to get a 3 yr warranty. Not bad. I am seeking a good case one that will clip on my belt and then I will be in seventh heaven. Or until next year, whichever comes first. Seriously, this has the feel of quality and some thought. And it has a decent 1" sensor which does a decent enough job. RAW and shades or levels of JPEG too. Full array of buttons and knobs and levers. Basic black I chose nor sure why, so I may need that red Zing bag to find it on the sofa. So I had to add this user followup to re affirm by enjoyment of the Panasonic Lumixes. Sony is no baloney. Salute Sony you gave us Walkman too.. Panasonic is Oeedokee for the smaller less hip crowd. And worthy of a hip hip hooray from yours truly.
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    Courtney

    Again, I would have incliuded the left shoiulder. And for this model the black backround is not the ultimate best choice. Stark in my view. Personal reaciion of course. She is nice and calm model. Strong look at the camera. Model quality in other words.
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    Courtney

    At first glance I wish that you had included her left shoulder. Decent photo. Garment is not super becoming but that is what she wore. T shirt is a T shirt.
  17. We are actually encouraged by manufacturers of cameras with a video heritage like my Lumix to shoot machine gun analog " bursts" and pick out the one that is the critical moment. And why not,if we can? Arguably from one point of view this is dumbing down our skills to a mediocre level. But then who will know and care, but us. Ike so. If we want to catch the two deer in a pose then we may have a choice if we fire a burst in anticipation.... Is choice not always better than less choice. Or saying Damn It, he moved!. We are findibg out life is a video stream we can never quite catch up to when we look closely at the neuroscience of brains our visual brains. This is known-- We are always "catching up "with the world 200 milliseconds after something happened, say neuro scientists who have MRI evidence and experimental evidence. Thus , following that, we can never really participate in the "critical moment." An illusory goal. We choose from the stream of still images which are always late. Our visual cortex is not designed for it. True. Science says so.
  18. Rules of composition are not an awfully bad place to start out actually for the water tester. Before you expand I mean. No tomes in my little photo library fail to address compositional guidelines ( Rules, no, we know tht is too confining of course and no fun ). I picked one up here by a well regarded writer, Tom Ang, title= " Digital Master Class." What doesTom say and show about "Composition." and placement within the selected frame? Well, balance and stability by one placement choice of the key element. And visual tension created by moving it elsewhere. It can be demonstrated and he illustrates. As always,we have to calibrate answer to the level of the questioner. which we only guess at. So. If I were teaching a little group, ( I tried it once with some friends) sure, you bet, I would encourage seeking some rules, even rules of a third, and then next class we be open to fugueal variations.. For landscape, give me some stability most of the time to fill the expectation of stasis and reliability, ( why do they put those levels for horizons that they all put in) I think. One of the toughies in arts and crafts. (Why did he not ask about getting right exposure or what is 18% or how do I get Hurrell lighting with my shoe flash. Asking how much space for foreground vs background is one of the great unanswerables. It all depends is a great answer when someone asks that one. Go read a book and look at our galleries. Is that too peremptory. Nah.
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