scottmartinez

Thank you Saad. It was a totally improvised background with a secondary light to rim that made the shot.

Love the composition. I questioned the coordinating hats, but then had the thought that they are a mom and two daughters. -What a perfect log to take in a picture perfect view of that lake!

Your also shooting down. Squat down a bit and connect with your subject. This kid would be great to shoot a head and shoulders portrait with an out of focus background with a telephoto lens.

Thank you Igor

Thanks Andrew!

Thank you Woody

Thanks Diego. The model is a favorite to work with!

Thanks Antony. This was my 2nd favorite from this location. I'll look and post my favorite soon.

A lovely photo anyway. It's been a while since I've visited Photo.net and glad to see you still kind of run the show! :-)

Your abstracts caught my eye. Very cool...

Fantastic!

Love the impact of your macro work!

You can tell that you've captured someone with a charming personality. Nice light and background! 

The dancer is improvising and moving in this image. I've been having the dancer move and free dance rather than try to get the same pose. I think it was a lucky catch to get the expression and both eyes as if I was shooting a portrait. The interesting note was I shot with a 50mm to move in and get some close ups. I wondered what sorts of distortion I would get since I shoot dancers at up to 200mm. It made the long arms longer. I find the lengthening interesting, so I put it up. With dance and ballet, there is always the lines. Musical, beautiful, and sometime powerful. Where do the lines take your eye. 

You caught a wide range of emotions here. I see boredom to nervousness to anger. The lower right subject would have made a nice portrait by herself with her confident and determined look. 

What a fantastic concept. I would like to the see the model toned down a bit to add to the camouflage effect, but what you (and the body painter?) did quite stunning.

I have been working on black and white conversion in Lightroom trying to

get the images to be a least respectable to the medium. I added a bit of

tone to this one. Comments welcome!

I like the tones and strong features. It looks like the cigarette's ashes have burned from the two dimensions of a photo into reality. -Like its being pushed right out of the transparency or coming right off my screen.

-comments welcome

I love the aesthetics of this photo. It seems a little cramped with the on the left and right and the feet of the foreground dancer. The dancer with out a body from the slow shutter is a little concerning to the eye.

Thanks PJ and Mark. These are hard to do in camera and I only have a few from this session that sorta worked. Little things like the dancer moving forward or back a couple of feet can change the picture dramatically in detail and blur. I'll post more soon. Thanks again for the comments.

 

-Scott

Comments welcome

I've tried multiple exposure with one a single frame with the SB800 and it can do 5 frames per second. The SB900 could not keep up. I'll play with that further when I get some time. I shot another dancer today. I moved the hot-lights out front this time. I think the key will be to move the dancer further away from the paper so I can get a bit more blur contrast and not have as much light hitting the actual paper. I need more space!

This is 5 dancer (images) in to a eventual 17 or 18 person panoramic. I cannot

decide if the blur and motion I am trying to get across is getting in the way or not.

The long exposure is supposed to convey movement and the pop of lights that

freezes is the action.

 

I would like any constructive criticism or some input about how best to light shots

like this. I've gelled to compensate for color correction. I have one tree camera right

of the home depot lights. I went with two softboxes to the lefty and right of the

subject and one mono light to the right and behind the subject for the rim.

 

I am shooting about 2 second exposures with the lights around f16.

Fred, reading your post has me looking into myself. -Not sure if thats good or bad. I am still wondering if this just something coming from a right brained person that make a left brained person go "doh! What was he thinking!"
Rashed, I have a 16x20 print very similar to what you have edited hanging in the studio. I have a request for a print that will also be produced very similar. The POW edit is just how my sub-conscious felt it should be at that time. I do remember briefly trying some crops at the time of the edit. This was shot horizontal and I had room on the left. I am not sure if that ad anything to do with my decision. Like Fred, that seems normal and lacking a bit. Does the dancer hold her own?
Jayanti, the PS vignetting is interacting with the shadow. The area above with the abrupt transition is the bad photoshop. The 32" of softbox is straight on and just out of the frame. I am sure that her hips and upper body's shadow fell out of the frame with the light so close. The B&W makes the image timeless but I rarely go there these days. I prefer the warmth of that old mono-light. I remember how frustrated I was with what should have been a simple photoshop edit at that time. Now I would have painted sampled color rather than use the stamp tool. This whole thing is bringing up bad memories of leaky roofs and drafty walls in my old studio. Its funny that I did not try crop out the crinkled paper on the left and instead frustratingly trying to fix it.
Michael, the rules that I am familiar with give sympathy to the viewer. We've all seen a plane land, but when a plane lands backward, that is something to take notice of.