Just hang\'n out.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by Germaine:
Good capture and nice colors here. I was about the "say", this would probably be good in b&w. Then I saw you'd already done a conversion. That looks good, too!

Just hang\'n out after-sepia.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by rwo82939:
Bill- Like the sepia tone the best, good crop from the original color. Great human interest shot, reminds me of my home town in Pa growing up.

Iris-50mm.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by rider:
youre right i would have liked to see the detail between the petals --nice bokah!! good shot!

HardBody-1 Before.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by citymars:
Very good job on lighting the figure, but yeah, the backdrop pretty much wrecks the effort. Could a faster shutter speed and narrow DOF help blur the background? You may also need to put more distance between the figure and the background.

I also notice a lot of yellow in this image. It seems a natural color for the figurine but since the backdrop is also yellowed it makes me wonder if there is a WB problem.

I hope you don't mind the criticism, we're all in this learning thing together!

A Windy Day in Northeast Iowa
by wehrmacher

Comment by Denise:
pretty tree, wonder how it would look if the background was blurred

Native American Princess-after.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by TCGuru:
I love the way you made the vase there part of the painting. Ingenious! I have the hardest time with warps, you did a great job!

Laura-revised.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by TCGuru:
Portratiure is a difficult thing. You must have light and shadow in certain places to keep the shot from looking flat and 2D. When you increased the contrast here, it made the hot spots on her face a whole lot brighter. A good way to increase contrast without actually brightening the image is add a layer of USM at 50, 50, 0 and tweak it down to where you like the look it gives you. You did a wonderful job of not getting reflections in the glasses AND I like the enlarged catchlights in her eyes.

three teachers in the wood-After.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by love:
Kudos to you for a successful after!! The eyes, background... great!

50mm Bleeding Heart.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by rider:
nice but could be sharper

HardBody-1 Before.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by TCGuru:
You could do product photography with those skills.