Don't
by fotomann_forever

Comment:
Nice work here. I like the non-glamourousness of it very much, and the framing of the head with the flash reflection is a nice touch. I think, as a suggestion, a more rigorous crop might have paid dividends, though i can see your point with what you've done.

The Grandmother
by Tiberius

Comment:
Fun shot, and beautifully processed. I'm unsure of how much of the grandmother's personality this shows though - to be picky - it perhaps rather puts her down, as though she were only defined by her relationship to her grandchild. Perhaps we need something more of her hands?

The White Sandal
by Jutilda

Comment:
Just seems so unpleasntly posed - especialy with that key-line.

Dark and Light of the Mind
by heathen

Comment:
I was going to say it's a pretentious title, but actually i think it's a pretentious image as well. Itr has elements of that James Dean thing - 'look! I'm wearing leather and denim, so I must be a 'real' man, and yet my pose makes it evident that actually, deep underneath, I'm a deeply tortured artistic and unconfident soul!' thing. Kind of unlikeable, really.

Admiring Her Treasures
by idnic

Comment:
Is the double entendre deliberate? Your framing actually suggests so, in which case I make this a very clever shot. I would wish it had a bit more punch, but I'm a high contrast fan, so that's an ignorable comment.

Dawn
by John White

Comment:
Quite fun, and with a certain obsessive madness feeling that I certainly associate with surfers. There's a stange sugestion of nudity - simply because all visible body is unclothed, and we're inculcated with the idea that any concealed area of flesh must therefore be unclothed.

At the Diner
by dfstevenson

Comment:
I like what i see as the intent of this - reminiscent of those American deep south documentary photographers - but the execution is poor here: contrast, resolution, processing, all are kind of messy and uncontrolled I think. That said, you evidently have an eye - the horizontal lines of his shirt, the vertical lines of the bar, the distorted lines reflected in the stools' seats and the diagonal lines of the padding behind the counter make for an interesting composition. I just really wish you'd had a better quality image. 7 for the eye, and the other three off for the quality issues.

Suspended Life
by ShannonLee

Comment:
This has a feel almost of the Polaroid camera. I like it - a proper simplicity of composition. Almost Gursky-esque.

Bridge in Sevilla
by qwerty314

Comment:
Santiago Calatrava is a genius - or perhaps, rather, was touched by genius in this stage of his career. He has become, it seems to me, rather more of a trick pony engineer than the evanescent free spirit he was in the days of the Expo in Sevilla. It's a beautiful structure, but thios image probably doesn't do full justice to the leap of engineering imagination it required - it just doesn't have anything to say where the ground is, which is essential to an understanding of the stucture. His inspiration, for what it's worth, was a man pulling a weight along the ground: and his own sketch of that idea is comparable with the best of Leonardo.

Synapse
by posthumous

Comment:

Originally posted by posthumous: Originally posted by e301: Interesting; My first reaction is that the exposure lacks some control - has the impression of being brought back too far from over-exposed, or something, and I find the visibility of the cow's shoulder unsettles the composition a bit - my eye can't help but be pulled there - a slightly tighter crop might have made that balance more comfortable. background is something of a problem, not working with your subjects very happily; but the idea, overall, I like, and it's been a lot more fun to look at than most. damn, that's a good comment. wow, yes, I did bring it back from overexposed. you've done a great job of listing the problems of this shot. I just didn't know how to overcome them.

The secret is RAW. Then you get the 2 stops or so leeway with exposure. You also get to work in 12-bit with black and white, which is so much richer than the 8-bits of jpeg - like we really think there are 256 shades of grey?

But I'm really glad you put this up - and what a finish, all the way up at 516! I've only onve cracked the 400 mark myself.

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