Yokogumogiri
by NVPhoto

Comment by LalliSig:
I like the red/blue colouring here but the samurai isn´t as sharp as I had hoped. Would have liked this photo better if you had made an environmental portrait out of it and shown his surroundings.

Yokogumogiri
by NVPhoto

Comment by pwm6:
This image is just a bit too dark for my taste. I think it might have been imporved by lightening he central figure.

Yokogumogiri
by NVPhoto

Comment by TrollMan:
Very red - but nice pose 7

Old Silver Band 3
by NVPhoto

Comment by GIS_boy:
nice enough capture but not a terribly inspiring moment. nice exposure though.

Old Silver Band 4
by NVPhoto

Comment by GIS_boy:
I love the effect of the back lighting of the subjects but still enough light from the front for good detail. Colours are great and a really excellent capture of a moment. I'm not loving the head in the foreground and perhaps the two larger lights are a little glary for me. Otherwise, great.

Old Silver Band 2
by NVPhoto

Comment by GIS_boy:
I like the DOF and the b&w. The strong contrast of the top of the guitar really appeals to me.

Old Silver Band 3
by NVPhoto

Comment by Bear_Music:
This one kind of fails to make the mark also; it seems awfully static. That might be OK if it was Joan Baez being sensitive or something (am I dating myself), but I don't get that sense here. The mic is distracting, too. The cropping feels arbitrary; awkward on the bottom, too much nothing on the top, unfortunate truncation of the left arm off the right side. Crop on the left is just right though :-)

And again, the focus is on the neck of the guitar just in front of the near hand, that whole edge of the guitar, and it's not enough. I really want the face to be in focus. You can do that if you want, you know? Download a trial copy of "Focus Magic", mask off the face and hair, and use the tool just on that area. It's remarkable. But you may not want to do that.

Anyway, I love the green shot. I love it when you do crazy things I guess...

R.

Old Silver Band 4
by NVPhoto

Comment by Bear_Music:
Now, THIS one I like! I like the immediacy of it, it jazzes me up (so to speak). The color's just great for me, the complementaries working like that, the transparency of the green, the luminance of it.One might wish the raised arm on the left weren't aobscuring the guitarist's hand work, but what the heck. It is what it is. Nice!

Old Silver Band 2
by NVPhoto

Comment by Bear_Music:
For me this image is solid but not spectacular. It doesn't really involve me, draw me in. There's nothing happening in the face, I think; it's not even contemplative-looking. The focus would seem to be the near hand, which is OK except it isn't; in focus, I mean. I know this is real tough of course, shot wide open handheld at slow shutter speeds...

It would be great, BTW, if you would post your settings with the picture, especially on shots like this, band shots where low-light contril is essential.

Anyway, I also find the BG spot unncomfortably close to the hand action, a sort of souble whammy. So, a nice shot but nothing to get real excited about in my book.

Old Silver Band 3
by NVPhoto

Comment by kari1:
Go with Art on it not being exciting band shot .. but I think it is a good solid pic ... the lamp showing in the guitar is annoying .. but you can't help that.