LOL
by gsal

Comment by charliebaker:
fun candid
centered composition takes away from the overall impact

Hávar´s Portrait
by gsal

Comment by SandyP:
Ohhhhmygoodness! 'bout fell out of my chair when this powerful image popped up on my screen. What can I say. I'm speechless. It is AMAZING!!!!!!!

The Young Ones
by gsal

Comment by SandyP:
Oh, this is AWWWWWWWWWWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE how you have processed this. Talk about a great old timey wall print! This is it!

Malawi Teenager
by gsal

Comment by SandyP:
I love the high key look of this one. It's perfect to make it even more dynamic.

San Girl BW
by gsal

Comment by SandyP:
Gunnar! This is so powerful. I feel like she is in the room with me. I wish she was. Oh how I love the texture and "realness" of this photo. I can't even tell you (even tho I've tried forever) how much I admire your work -- especially your African people work!

The Nylon Curtain
by gsal

Comment by gsal:
Thanks for reading my mind, posthumous. Without the white strip of the other house on the left the image loose energy, not the opposite like Rino63 and some other said. I also totally agree with posthumous that cutting the end of the curtain makes the image more powerful. So thanks a lot for your support and kind remarks!

Message edited by author 2007-10-09 13:55:58.

The Nylon Curtain
by gsal

Comment by posthumous:

Originally posted by Rino63: I like the right side of this image, the left side with the big white strip is unhelpful in the image. a better composition was possible if the curtain was entire. the crop is distracting and the image lose energy. probably you have only this image, but a second shot with the window on the left and the curtain that fly should be great. the colours and the tones are beautiful. 6 but this is one of that images that I love

no no no... why crop out the left side and make a simple image even simpler? and if you include the entire curtain in the frame, then you stabilize it, *reduce* the energy.

The Young Ones
by gsal

Comment by Louis:
This is fantastic. The players make this photo, yes, as does the high contrast and the black and white, but I really like the heavy wood-like object above the guy's head at right that frames the picture, the hard line created by the variation in colour above their heads adding a kind of sub-frame, and the countering dark patch of shadow upper left. Awesome!

The Nylon Curtain
by gsal

Comment by tate:
this is fantastic art.

The Nylon Curtain
by gsal

Comment by bucket:
beautiful!