ellery_chua___singapore

The whole frame may be too many sujects for 1 picture. Try a panorama crop for bottom and another for sky.

Pretty nice. You should try this at night. It was more interesting before the opening after the opening there is a lot of light glare from the base of the building.

 

You could see how it looked back then here:-

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=936855

yr dragon fly is great but the background is not so good.

good abstract may want to consider a slight crop from the bottom.

wow great work on the clouds

Thumbnail looks more imposing. The full view loses some impact perhaps a crop just behind the white finge of hair would refocus us on his profile. The far sided eyebrow looks like a big fat furry catapillar. This has potential to be an arresting shot - you may need to work with croping and printing to arrive at the best format.

 

You might want to get in closer - the hord is only about 40 to 50% of the frame you loose energy the crowd has. Longer shutter speed to depic motion did not quite work - too much blur if I might be so blunt.

From a series in wedding that was shot a couple of weeks back. This

little all girl flash of joy almost caught me off guard.

Stacey,

Sorry for late reply.

Shot at an angle from near the level of the bottom of the tank upwards. Had a strong light angled upwards too along with the on board flash of the digital camera. Had to wait to roughtly get to know the fish's swing path. This is probably the apex of the swim up to water top motion so the fish is a little less moving but they move very fast even then.

 

Sukhamaya,

True true. Less controls mean more work in places where you can minimise the problems. Does not gurantee success though 8-(. I think a famous photog once said luck is making sure that you did everything you could and was there ready when the image came by.

 

Carl,

 

this is beautiful. I love the soft texture of the light and the tone, the harder highlight is very well used here.

 

I have always had a problem understanding the differentiating photography into fine art and others.... the work should always present the subject in the best manner that is appropriate for that subject. We should be making images not taking pictures.

 

 

top crop seem too lose

You went thru a lot of work for this but the meaning is not clear

nice very sweet . a panorama sequence. well crafted

I like this one. The shadow in the back seems seperated from her - you need to link them together better. Shadow on her face is a little too much and the left hand may be in danger of being too bright - the print would tell you better than what we see on the screen.

Grin 2 lights - 1 soft box main, and a hairlight grided. Sheepish actually the back drop is a deep blue since there is not much light spill over from the main light onto it. The colors change accordingly.

 

Had experimented by shutting down the fill light on the model's right ran this on a windage but did not remeasure the lights as this was shooting by rotation basis session.

 

 

The focusing on this is not as precise as I would have liked it to be

but there are some limitations shooting at lower light pass a glass

wall with a subject that swims at will where he will go. The digital

point and shoot that was used for this is not that precise a tool as

a slr.

Aside from the unnatural nature of the cloudy they also pose a high level of distraction in the picture. I assume the hills fore and mid ground is the subject - crop of the sky it helps. Then you have the bright golden hills jostling for attention - visual this is very much little a babble babble situation. Simplify to make it stronger.

You have pick the correct point and frame its just the additions to the natural situation are too radical. My 2cents from mpov - this is one of those ymwv things.

Thanks for taking time to view & comment.

David

 

It was a photo to begin with. But after a little working over it became this and there is a total another version from the same basic photo. It is in my folder here.

 

I think of this in the similar way the B&W wet dark room printers think of the finished piece- it can be very different from the basic original neg.

The imporved version is much stronger of the 2. The original lacks the visual strength to carry your concept.

This is a wonderful image - so full of possibilities. There is a certain classical and timeless quality to it.

This is very well done. bravo

Burn in the sitter's left shoulder ? Or crop for only a narrow rectangle with only the face and framing shadows ?

excellent work - a very very good clasical wedding shot. I like the timing of the shot.

thank you for your reactions to this.