michele_romano

I'll appreciate every comments and suggestions. Thank you :-)

I'd appreciate if you told me what you think about this one :-) It was taken

with and "old" iPhone 3G (the quality of its camera was not so good) ... but

with pets every moment is an unpredictable "gift" that you have to look for

and that you have to be quick to catch when they offer it to you. I've

dropped some part at the borders of the photo and improved a bit the

focus. Thank you for viewing.

:-D Nice shot!

A tipical cat's situation :-)

Just a little suggestion: you can crop the carafe on the left, so that there's just 1 "subject". The carafe has the focus just as the cat's head so it's distracting.

Cropping the carafe (and only it) the cat's head will be the only subject and it could be not in the center of the photo, so giving space to see the rest of the body (not focused).

Ciao!   Mic

 

Thank you for your comments and suggestions! :-)

I'll try to create another version lightening a bit the shadows and turning the photo in "creamtone" (I like it, it gives a different and beautiful look to the scene).

Thank you very much!

I'd appreciate if you told me what you think about this one :-)

It was taken with and "old" iPhone 3G (the quality of its camera was not so

good) ... but with pets every moment is an unpredictable "gift" that you

have to look for and that you have to be quick to catch when they offer it

to you.

I've dropped some part at the borders of the photo and improved a bit the

focus.

Thank you for viewing.

I like the composition with the focus on woman and in the background the man that, with a funny expression on his face, is looking at the woman and her beauty, getting his interest.

After that I've read the title and I've seen the cigarette .... I think that with a so interesting photo this particular can be "cropped", it's the worst part of it .... and, however, the half smoked cigarette is not a so beautiful particular.

I've darkened a little bit with burn brushes the areas with high lights and I've uploaded the new version.

Hi Frank, it's been a pleausure for me to give some suggestions and that they could be useful :-)

One more thing. You could use a better quality jpeg compression, the more compression you use, the more loss of quality of your image you have and so the more lost of details.

With some experiments I've seen that a good trade-off is to scale the photo to a width of 880 pixels. In this way, one can see the large format in the frame of the forum, filling it all and without need of move the page. Scaling to 880 pixels in width and a jpeg compression of 90% or more maybe be a good compromise to get a file not too big, easy visible also in large format and without big loss in quality.

This is my little experience in this forum, hope to be useful.

 

Hi Frank, really beautiful house .... but it seems that your attention was mostly on the subject of the photo instead of the photo itself. I mean that it seems that your intention was to take a memory of the house and to fill the photo in the best way with the house and the fence, with less attention about the photo (frame, colour, light, etc.).
As always take these as my personal opinions and suggestions (forgive my bad english) :-)

The light (or the time). It seems that this photo was taken in end of the afternoon (or the beginning of the morning) as the lamps are turned on at the sunset. The house and the fence are in the shadow, so there is low light and their beauty is almost "hidden". Taking the same scene some hours before (with the house and the fence enlightened at, for example, 45 degree on the front-left) could contribute to give "vitality" to the house, sharpness on the particulars of the beautiful fence, a more tridimensional effect on the house walls, windows, columns, etc.

The position. It seems tha the photo was taken with attention to the central door of the house, with the best trade-off between the columns position the right column of the door of the fence, etc. I think it's not the best angle ... but it's sure a good angle staying in the street as maybe you were.

The frame. I think that some cuts could improve the picture. One cut could be about the tree, a little cut on the right could give less importance to the tree itself. A cut on the left could "delete" the sign "Hotel" (it seems important as a description, as "it's a beautiful building, but notice that it's an hotel"). The bottom the photo is limited by a visible line between the bottom of the fence wall and the pave, it's almost parallel with the bottom border of the photo; you could cut the photo in the bottom just a little so to exclude that line.

Hope to be useful :-)

 

Ciao!   Michele

Hi Starvy, thank you for your kind comment :-)

Sissi was quite calm and relaxed in that moment and it was really looking at me in that position while I was taking this photo. :-)

In this photo I've cut just some space around to get a better frame. I've to work some on lights, as Michael suggested. As I get a better result I will update this photo.

Ciao!

Hi Veronica, I'm writing for this photo but these suggestions are also related to the other photos of album "Lieutenant's Woman".

This and the other photos of the album lack of the research of a "relation" or "empathy" with the little cat. In this way the cat is not a "co-subject", it becames almost a "forced" but "bothering presence". The "contact" with the model is there because you ask for it and she's giving you what you have asked .... but with the cat is different, a cat doesn't give you what you ask, it's you that have to search what you want and use empathy to find out. In this photo the cat has the eyes a bit closed .... it's clear that you are looking at it just as a presence in the scene, but there's not "partecipation" by the cat, because you are not looking at it for "its eyes", you are looking for the model's eyes. This lack of interest for the "co-subject" and therefore for its "feelings" is a strong evidence.

There's also the big contrast between the natural appareance of the cat and the articial appareance of the model. This contrast maximizes the appareance of the model as an artifact, bothering her beauty and her pose, the model and the cat are near but they are not "integrated".

Hope to be useful :-)

 

Hi Jerry, thank you very much for your useful comments.

This photo has been cut just a little on the right, so there's no other bottom frame space. Next time I'll consider your suggestions while shooting.

Ciao!

Thank you very much Michael. I'll try to do some experiments on lights as you suggest.

Ciao!

I'd appreciate if you told me what you think about this one. Taken with the

light of a small lamp. Thank you for viewing.

I'd appreciate if you told me what you think about this one. Taken at home,

in the light of a summer sun. Thank you for viewing.

Thank you for your comments! :-)

@Starvy: that photo was shoot in the starting warm light of the afternoon, I liked that light in that situation. I've tried to add saturation as you suggest but the slight "warm light" (sorry for my english) became too strong, so I've left the actual saturation.

@Phil: I've updated the photo cutting a little on the right (may be you have to refresh the page in your browser). Cutting more, Kelly would be not on the center of the photo.

@Alberta: I'll be adding photos of Kelly, she's a kind and beautiful model. I've just added another photo.

Ciao!   Mic

 

I'd appreciate if you told me what you think about this one. Taken at home,

in the light of the sun of an afternoon of mid november. Thank you for

viewing.

Beautiful shot!

 

The slope makes this photo "dinamic", great idea! It could be "static" with simply the contrast "bird's world" vs. "human's world", but the slope makes this "comparison" somewhat live.

Really beautiful image, exciting.

I think that it's perfect as composition, time and exposition. I'm a little uncertain about the strong blue dominance .... it could be reduced .... but it's also what gives some kind of "magical" to the image :-)

Ciao!   Mic

 

Something about the technique, something about the subject. As usual here, it's only my personal opinion, with which you can agree or not.

 

 

About the technique: the photo could have been improved using a polarizer filter, to reduce some reflection on the water and to darken the light blue of the sky.

The photo could be cut in the bottom to cut of the plants, there are too little space with the plants so they seem to disturb the image instead of to be an element of the image.

 

 

About the subject: what is the "message"? I mean that one thing is a beautiful scene of which to take a picture and one thing is a beautiful photo that communicates a "message", a "feeling". It seems to me (but is only my personal idea) that your attention while shooting was most about the beauty of the scene and less about creating some feelings about it thru the photo.

Absolutely splendid!

Nice. I think that you could have closed by a stop the aperture because the background is so blurred to seem just a colored wall and the bird seems out of any contest.

.... and the choice to include the man in top-left, walking calmly, completes the scene (otherwise too "simple" with only the stairs as background) making also the scene a little surreal. Beautiful.

Really nice composition!! You could add a little of light and contrast. The focus on the man and not on the tiger is perfect, it give static to the former and a dinamism on the latter, good idea!

Beautiful! IMHO the picture could have a little more light, e.g. to see a little better the faces of the two women. The road starts from the bottom-left corner, if it started a little upper it could give more the feeling of a non ending road. However, beautiful picture. :-)