Next Best Thing To My Wife In Bed Naked
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Comment by fotomann_forever:
LMFAO love the title ;-)

Next Best Thing To My Wife In Bed Naked
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Comment by mimsydotes:
better be... just kidding!

Coke Whore
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Comment by Mustardhead:
The troll voters were really out in force on this one...

Very nice piece of work.

Coke Whore
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Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings from the Critique Club...

I believe the first paragraph in your post challenge comments probably sum up your result. Drug use is also not limited or specific to any particular decade in time. You can't expect much from any particular image when it's a rush job. Every now and then you will get lucky, but you can devise a weekly challenge plan that will improve the quality of your work. You may want to try something like this:

Day 1 and 2: Brainstorm the topic and throw out the first 5 ideas you come up with. Look for a unique idea.

Day 2 and 3: Think about how you want to make your photo happen and visualize what you want it to look like.

Days 4-7: Execute your image. If it doesn't look like your visualization, keep trying.

Next Best Thing To My Wife In Bed Naked
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Comment by hotpasta:
really????...you need to get a new life...nice shot though

Pink and Green Lampwork
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Comment by BeeCee:
Looks a little bright... maybe my monitor

TBA
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Comment by melismatica:
This is a very nice candid. You've captured a natural pose and a playful expression. The exposure is very nice for an indoor candid, warm and natural looking. The bit of blurred background lends a sense of the setting which is appropriate for a candid shot. Your wife (?) is a great model. Exploit her! ;D

Coke Whore
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Comment by Trizia Hunt:
so very sad...but has shown the truth about what a woman will do to look a certain way and weight in this world. Sad but very truthful photo.

BlueAlex.jpg
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Comment by melismatica:
This shows a good eye for what makes a nice kids portrait. I hate selective desaturation but I understand the desire to play around with the technique.
This has a lot of potential. The problem I see with it is a lack of a catch light in his eyes. If you are unfamiliar with the terminology, (I read from your profile that you are fairly new to photography) this is the sparkle of highlight we see that brings life to a portrait. This is achieved through sharp focus and good lighting. A good way to create nice catch lights is to use some sort of reflector held near the subject's face. In a pinch, a piece of white paper will do. You can use the kind of poster board you can get at a drug store, or foil wrapped around cardboard also works. Even a book or a newspaper that the subjects holds himself can work as a light reflector. His hat pushed down over his eyes adds a certain amount of personality but if had been pushed up just a smidgen we would probably have seen more of the sparkle that the viewer connects with in a portrait of a living subject. I wonder if you are shooting at a higher speed ISO rating than you need? This photo and the other one in your portfolio seem somewhat grainy considering the quality of your equipment.

What is really nice about this shot is the tight framing and the fact that the viewer sees the child at eye-level and that the subject is looking out at the viewer. The crop might be a bit too tight if your subject was looking off somewhere else but in this case it works. I could use a bit more space to the right of the frame but overall this works.

I hope you don't mind the critique and advise. One never knows how much a person has researched a new hobby on their own so I may just be repeating stuff you've heard or discovered for yourself. Of course, the basics bear repeating. I still review stuff on bracketing exposure, etc just to cement stuff in my mind and I've been into photography for a couple of decades now. I'm going to check out your wife's jewelry now. :D

Pink and Green Lampwork
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Comment by the311guy:
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