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SUCH a beautiful portrait of a beast...! Congrats for one of the greatest image of an animal I've seen for a while -and I see tons of photographs all the time...! :-)

 

PS: would love to read some details about the processing of the image.

Great colors, subtle lightning, good subject choice.

Great exposure, perhaps the colors look unreal dued to the long exposure time, it made them change.

Great saturated colors, needs a little bit more contrast IMO.

Great low contrast image, accentuates the feeling of beeing at evening lights clous adds more dramatism.

Great details and lightning. Probably one of your bests in theses series. I would suggest that you should try to add people to these magnificient views, it would add more interest. The one with the nuns is the best IMO.

This one, I like it! You've used well the rocks to frame the view, adds dimension to the typical Easter island's statues.

Great collors, interesting model and expression, good you've kept the bright in her eyes. Makes me wonder why her head is shaved...

I'd like to know how do you see it in your monitors, too dark? Any

other comm. most welcome. Thanks!

hahaha, this is funny, maybe not the best lightning, but for sure they'll keep a good memory of this event...!

haha... A little bit, yes, but I managed to jump just in time (I used a long lens, so I was not so near).

Just some fun with water. Let me know what you think.

Too much or too few PS for your taste? Tell me please what you think

about this one.

Film set scene...?

Excelent shot, James. I should say the most personal "portrait-nude" I've seen for a while.

 

Why?

 

I think the first thing that caught my attention is her obvious disconfort, makes me guess for what...? Maybe her first time beeing nude in front of a camera? Afraid of the consequences of this act of possing nude, for the first time in her life...? Maybe, she doesnt look like a model, her look talks about beeing a teacher, a waiter, a bartender. Hmmm, food for my imagination.

 

Then, there's the other component, her age. She's not a teenager anymore, which accentuates even more the impact of the image. We're all too used to see nude of young women, which seems like sexuality isnt an issue for people beyond the 40s.

 

Then we have her emerald eye, so beautiful, so unique. Also the chosen angle of light underlines this, and the texturized background of similar color, that fits really well.

 

Finally, the fact that she's covering her breasts with her hands, in a almost defensive way, fits fine with her stressed look.

 

All these makes this one more a nude portrait than simply a nude. And a very thuthful one.

 

probably the most eye-catching in the folder (at least among the B&W ones).

interesting but get rid of that colored frame, a white or black or grey one would be better imho.

I not only opened the window, I also throw half of my body outside...! :-)))

 

In fact the focus made beyond the glass of the window itself, and I guess also its quality, made possible a non disturbed or interfered image.

Interesante, aunque acuerdo con alguno de los comentarios anteriores acerca de las areas blancas un tanto exageradas, quiza le has dado demasiado alto a la mascara de desenfoque?

another "painted with light" but in PS, let me know what you think.

Thanks.

interesting, would love to know something about the technique.

buena combinaci�n de colores complementarios, con el tono humano de un retrato de una persona simpᴩca.

John, couldnt help to try to improve it, the shapes looks like needing a bit more contrast, let me know what you think. Parameteres: an USM with amount=40, radius=60, thresold=0, desaturated 20%. I applied them on the larger format, maybe the original (bigger) version, might need another radius, a bit experimentation might be needed.

I don't think that you should refrain from manipulating images at your will, if that's what your feelings are compelling you to do. Art in one of it's function, is to make us free, from whatever might be tying us.

 

Personally, I like much more the first manipulated version, and not that much the original: this last could pass as "just another portrait among the universe of portraits". I mean, there's so many and so good, "straight" portrait photographs, that the subject is over-overdone. Why not to try another spin over it?

 

BTW, my minor observation on this one, is the awful treatment arround her head... looks like uncarefully done. Strange, since the rest of the image is quite well post-processed.

beautiful treatment, could you please give us any detail about the photoshoping? I'm trying to achieve similar results, but with no success yet... Thanks a lot in advance. Regards.