joe_petrik

Ian,

Clean your glasses. It's a shot of a mannequin.

Joe

I've been doing nature photography for as long as I've owned a

camera but have only recently taken up portraiture. Any suggestions

for improvement would be welcome.

Thanks,

Joe

A very attractive woman and nice mood lighting, but I believe the picture would be more dramatic if you put her a little more off centre -- more into the right part of the frame.

Joe

A stunning portrait. If I took one 1/10th as good as this I'd be thrilled.

Joe

Linear polarizer, actually. Despite all the warnings I've read about using linear polarizers with the F4 I've never had a problem.

Joe

Thanks, Angela. It's too bad the scanner at work (a flatbed with tranny hood) can't extract any detail in the shadows with Velvia.

Note to self: Must buy Coolscan 4000 one day.

Joe

Hmmmm, maybe it is too tightly cropped but the choice was either 85 or 180, the only telephotos I had with me.

Time for an 80-200mm zoom?

Joe

Thanks for the comment, Marco. I'd love to go back and retry this shot, but I was on vacation and am now an ocean away. Maybe next time ;-)

Joe

This shot was taken in a corridor at the Detroit airport. Every few

seconds the lighting on the walls changes, shifting the mood from warm

to cool. My goal was to take a still that captured the colour

transition, and the passers-by as they tried to make their connecting

flights.

What do you think?

Joe

P.S. A tripod, if I had one on hand, certainly would have been useful

to eliminate camera shake although, in my view, the blur doesn't

completely distract from the picture.

Philippe,

Hey, this looks familiar ;-)

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=298717

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=297390

I like the way you captured a completely different feel to the same church. Your pics are much warmer than mine.

Cheers,

Joe