jon_mcclintock

Wow. Are those rotors glowing? Great picture!

Nice shot. I just got back from a week in Sequoia.

Is that Crescent Meadow? I'm anxiously waiting for

my pictures to come back...

A fairly good picture. What you might want to do

if you're intent on getting good at taking pictures of butterflys is to see if any of your local zoos have butterfly exhibits. Usually they

have large enclosed areas filled with thousands of

various butterflys. Since they are enclosed areas,

try to go midday, as this is when the light will

be the brightest.

This taken with my first roll of slide film (Provia 100F), with my

fully manual camera. The exposure looks to be fairly good (although

I'm having a hard time determining which of my computer's gamma is

set properly; at home on the NT machine it looks good, while at work

on the Linux machine it looks a bit light).

I'm fairly happy with the bokeh, but I was wondering how the

foreground elements affected the composition. I could crop it,

but one of the leaves juts prominently into the space of the blossom.

What do you folks think?

The lighting is good, but I think this pose would

have worked much better with a black background. As it is, the light background competes for attention with the subject.

I like this one much better than the other pictures of the castle you posted. The different

colored bricks and the foilage give the castle

personality and draw it out of the "dark blob in

the center of the frame" modality.

This is one of my first attempts at shooting black and white and

probably my 5th roll of film through a fully manual camera. Please

tell me what you think of the composition, lighting, etc.

Very nice. I would like to see more detail in the

larger exposure, however (there very well may be

detail that has been lost in the scan).

Perhaps if you had used a gradiated neutral density filter, with the dark portion on top,

for the smaller exposure, there would be more

detail in the larger exposure?

Anyways, I like it.

Just the chairs?

It seems to me that there's this nice, scenic

beach that's being completely cut out...

The lack of a single focus point doesn't bother

me as much as the large, dark, blobulent bush that

takes up the right lower third of the picture.

What my mind wants to see is more of the lake,

perhaps with the large dead tree more prominently

visible.

A nice shot, but it doesn't seem to work as

a vertical shot. Perhaps if you left out the fence

and composed it horizontally, the pond wouldn't

look so crowded in the frame.

I like the perspective on the castle. However, it doesn't

seem to stand out much in front of the clouds (most notably

in the upper right corner).