thomadeus

This is a recent attempt at duplicating the effect of a graduated

neutral density filter (which I do not own) with two melded photos

from my S2. The photos were taken within a couple seconds of each

other with +1/-1 exposures. In PS, I took the top portion of the

underexposed picture (gradually fading out, with some "holes" in the

fade-out for the buildings/Space Needle)and layed it on the

overexposed one. What do you think?

Too much grass in front?

Really beautiful.

This is great! I love street photography, but have never been very good at it myself. You've really captured the joy of play here.

The diaper is there 'cause we had a little adventure in baby poo the shot before. That irked the father, who was holding the baby from below.

Actually, that is the last remnants of a fog that had blanketed the valley.

Thanks! No alterations. That's what it looked like last night at about 5:30. The "cut outness" of it might be due to a little sharpening applied after I reduced its size. That and the jpeg artifacts introduced when Photo.net does its standard compression.

Nice capture of the interesting shapes and lightplay of this architecture. I'd be tempted to show up during the daytime to see what kind of interesting shadows you could get.

I like it. The isolation of the figures simplify's the statue's story and the closeup helped you capture more detail. I'm a sucker for high-contrast images, but I can see how some people might have a problem with the blown-out portions of this photo.

Beautiful hair. The flowers are kind of truncated here, which detracts from the photo. I'd use a portrait orientation. With that hair, I'd be tempted to do some natural light black and white with this model.

My best skyline shots come during dusk/dawn. If you take the picture just after the sun has set, or just before it rises, you'll get a intense blue sky and more interesting light. You might also consider getting a polarizing filter to darken skies.

 

When I was last in Houston, I was struck by how incredibly flat that town is. It's hard to take a sweeping panorama of anything, because there is no good vantage point from which to stand. (Unless, I guess, if you stand on the top of a building!)

 

I shot a little around the Galleria, with those swooping chrome arches across Post Oak, and I saw (but did not have my camera for) a nice early-morning vista of downtown from inside a building on Kirby & San Felipe. Have fun!

I like this. It has a strong graphic element. The high grain look, and the similarity in apparent texture and tone between the flowers and the backdrop, lend a moody quality to this picture.

Nice candid shot. She looks to be concentrating pretty hard here. Only quibble would be the excess of books and papers in the foreground. Ah well. It's the price to be paid for a true candid portrait!

Very nice. I love contrasty images, and he seems to be very relaxed here.

Very dramatic! My taste has always run toward high contrast low grain images, but this is still really cool.

Nice shot. I like the sharpness (of the stationary objects anyway :-) and the lack of grain.

I like it. It could use a little more sharpness, although I can completely accept a little blur in an action shot in a dark room. I'd like to see the subject a little offset to the right so we see a little in the direction he's looking.

An invitation I whipped up for a party next month. What do you

think? I considered adding some "film grain" to make it look a

little more old-fashioned, but when compressed into a reasonably

sized JPEG, grain can look kind of muddy.

Very nice. Very urban. I'm a sucker for high contrast.

The truck is distracting. You should have had the owner move it. ;-) Seriously though, this would look even more appropriate with some '40s vehicles in it. It would also make a great base for some Photo Art.

Well, not completely abandoned ;-)

 

Nice sunset, good silhouette.

 

I've always liked your high-contrast desert images. Allows you to work within the limits of your camera.

 

I've taken to boosting the contrast in many of my own to get this kind of drama (with mixed success ;-)

Created as the first picture in a slide show I created for my friends

on a recent ski trip. It's meant to mimic one of those album covers

you used to see in the 80's: random expressions and poses, looking

off in different directions, funny hats, etc. This is the first time

I took my notebook PC with me on vacation. It worked out great as I

was able to give everyone a CD of the slide show.

 

Anyway, what do you think? Taken under mercury vapor lamp, ISO 100

and a 2 sec. exposure.

Sublime

Taken at Seattle's Greenlake Park. I kind of liked the transition of

the tree limbs from black-on-white to white-on-black. What do you

think?