Black Sabbath
by graphicfunk

Comment:
I think my favorite thing about this is quite simply the position of your strobe. The model is so well lit in initial position. Very nice.

The shot by nazgul beats this because you can also see that he is standing on a picturesque rock. This is still totally amazingly great though!

Implements of the Rain Maker
by aboutimage

Comment:
I like it in colour, but I must say, in black and white, it gives a certain perfection to the picture that puts it all together. Well done!

Paris, Sacre Coeur
by airdance

Comment:
Nice image with lots of interest with the people and great colour.

If you were to shoot it again, I would suggest perhaps moving forward and going wider in your zoom if possible. This will get rid of the wire, and change where the tree interacts with the building.

Things to watch for would include the angle on that foreground promenade.

Try cropping a slice off the bottom. It places more interest on the cathedral at the cost of the depth of the photo. It won't necessarily make it better, but it changes the pic quite a bit. You might like the depth or you might prefer it a little flatter, more like a postcard perhaps.

Ali 2
by airdance

Comment:
Your focus is really good. Can't complain about the composition either, but I would say that your lighting is a little unbalanced. I don't know if that was intentional, but I would guess it isn't.

One tool that you might want to look at for correcting the lighting in this picture would be the tutorial on shadows and highlights on this website. Most notable is the blown area of highlights under the eye where you lose the detail of the fur. Also, you lose detail in the shadow areas.

Another thing you might want to look at would be the lighting in the sense of how to shoot other pictures.

It is often said that if you have a strong direct light, try to place something that either blocks or diffuses that light in it's most direct path.

Most people use cloth screens or bouncecards. Some use a bouncecard to lighten the other part of the subject, largely preserving the special quality of the light they saw in the first place, others would block the light to soften it's effects. In this picture, the result would be that the catchlights in the eyes would be changed, allowing more detail of the iris, rather than of the catchlights themselves. Notice how it is easier to see the eye that is behind, but it is out of the depth of field.

If you balanced your light differently, I feel it would allow you to expose a little differently and get more detail in the foreground eye and balance your shadows a little.

I am by no means an expert in using these techniques, but that is just what I gather from the basic principles.

i hope it helps.

Soaring by Glacier Bay
by Neil

Comment:
This is a seriously wonderful picture. The only thing I can say that might be better is the lighting on the seagull. You might consider experimenting with the dodge tool in Photoshop. I personally don't like doing that for natural photos like your daughter's, so I would say that it is amazing as it stands. The gull is in exactly the right place. The composition is excellent. Your daughter has an amazing eye! This is a wonderful way to take advantage of the DOF of digital cameras.

This is a re-placement of an earlier message when I didn't quite click in on the method in the Comment Chain thread

Room For One More?
by Manic

Comment:
Gotta love the expression on his face, but Westerners sure are soft when it comes to "full". Daily fact of life in Asia is probably twice that full. There's always room for one more.

Room To Dunk
by MarkB

Comment:
This is a super idea and a very well executed picture. Is that skim milk? It looks a bit watery to my eye. I wonder if full cream would have made a better picture. Probably wouldn't have helped in the post-shot cleanup though... yech.

Also, I just read a little tutorial on fixing horizons. If you are interested, it is in the tutorials section of this website. I feel this picture would have benefitted from a minor rotate.

Come chat with me
by lwkimages

Comment:
What an unexpected title. In a picture that resembles an older monastery or convent. Are you making reference to Chattages of catholic infamy?

Chattages were the common name for when the upper level priests of a seminary would take young boys, priests in training, into their room for a "chat" of an indecent nature.

"Clowning Around"
by tmorninglory96

Comment:
Good colour. Nice use of dog!

Blacksmith Shop
by ace flyman

Comment:
Great shot. The lighting is a bit weird, but not really bad.