carl_williams

nice.

Excellent!

Fair enough!

 

Hey, am I missing something, or is there no way to remove a comment once someone has removed the corresponding 'photo?

I like the liveliness of this. I've been trying to do similar stuff of musicians in low light.

Love the shadow patterns! Is this in Adelaide? (Looks vaguely familiar.)

 

I like it as it is. I'm trying to do stuff like this in low light (e.g. this pic), and getting something sharp along with a sense of movement and life is tricky. I rather like your saxophone shot, too.

This is nice - love the colours and texture!

 

 

re: orientation - this way up gives the feel of both bits of the implement growing upwards towards the sky, and, IMO, works best. I like it because the composition is striking and the scale and nature of the subject is fairly ambiguous to start with - it looks "grown", perhaps like a weird termite mound or strange plant.

I like this. How d'you feel that moving the viewpoint a bit so that the vertical line of the doorframe wasn't central behind your head would look? Also, would modifying the light behind the door to something more diffuse, filling the gap and washing out the floor etc. the other side of the door, give a more X-filesey sort of feel? (perhaps a striplight as suggested, or perhaps just blast the scenery on the other side with a shedload of flash?)

 

I quite like the wooden floor - it has a nice texture which looks good with a play of light across it like that. (I don't have the interrogation type associations, more sort of mysterious ones - mebbe the spotlight being a spot contributes to the interrogation feel?)

Interesting (and successful!) technique, thanks for sharing!

excellent portrait!

Only the out of focus hand detracts from this photo in my opinion - otherwise I reckon it's a superb portrait, excellently composed/framed.

I think this one looks more striking than the other of the same subject but I'm not entirely sure why. Looks a bit more dramatic to me. I think the sea is just a bit better and the focus is on the bright gap between

the rocks on the left. The rock on the right helps to frame things. In the other picture, the extra bit of bright sky to the left just looks more distracting. I notice this one's narrower top to bottom - have you cropped out some sky? I wonder how it'd look with perhaps a slivver off the bottom (up to the bit where the shadow on the sand has that horizontal kink in it) and a touch more sky?

I like this photo. Nice soft colours. Is it perhaps just shade over-exposed, though?

 

I also liked the duckpond picture, although I'd say that one was definitely a bit over (that said, (a) I'm no expert, (b) it's your photo and © by the time it's been scanned, compressed and displayed on some random tired monitor, all bets are probably off...)

This is and the tight crop one are my favourite from this folder.

I really like the "painting" quality to the tones in this picture. How'd you feel about perhaps cropping 18% off of the bottom edge?

The shadow was cast by some largeish trees behind and the sun was getting fairly low. Focal length was about equivalent to

24mm on 35mm, the bulding's not hugely tall. Thanks for the comment!