jwb

[Please do have a look at the not-yet-ruined by photo.net http://saturn5.com/~jwb/moto/0124.jpg">original scan.]

Photo taken for classified ad. Very bright afternoon sunlightbacklighting the scene. Your thoughts on the composition will beappreciated.

The original sans photo.net artifacts can be seen on my website.

This is the closest I'll come to product photography: selling my own motorbike on eBay. I was delighted with the way this one came out because of the intensity of the backlighting. It looks like I put the bike in a one of those white rooms Apple Computer's ad agency uses, but the location is in fact on a public sidewalk. I also enjoyed the complexity added by the reflection of the wheel's shadow.

Another learning-from-experience photo. This whole scene is just as grey as it can be. It would have been a more interesting photograph when the next wave came up, but by that time the game was over. Again I was glad to get a good white in the highlights.

The film is playing some tricks here, which is actually the only reason I find this photo interesting. The scene is sunlit but with a heavy overcast. In person, the ocean looks grey, not blue. Also the subject is not really pink. I was just really happy to have gotten a solid white from his Gi.

The wide angle was a good choice. I just like looking at this picture. I don't agree with the previous comments about fill flash -- there seems to be plenty of detail in the grass in the shadow of the bale. I know the film is just playing to my eyes, and there is no way on this Earth that the blues and greens are really this strong, but it makes for a pleasing photo. 7/7.

A competent shot of a really lovely subject. The spherical distortion makes this seem like a tiny planet! The light falls off considerably at the bottom of the photo, which is the only thing I don't like about this one.