Hi Andy
On a Major catch up.....
Blimey is it that far back I walked your pages.... Sorry mate...
I'm winding back to
Elegant.... Because I can!! and I like the humour in the shot
On the positive side it would save a lot of washing.
Love the Business end! excuse myimbecile question but the frame its sitting in, is that a film frame?
Watery.... Excellent shot, I really love the clarity of this, and the texture in the skin .... the reflection of the window in the iris is really nice. I'm thinking how your model could sit for some time not blinking with a lens stuck in there eye! I like the shots with the catch lights myself too.
Bold.... Yes Isabelle wins on this one, "chucked Isabelle in our back garden" poor girl! Wouldn't she have been happier with a guardian angel instead of a ghost! Like the colour edit of the ghost that works well and the opacity looks spot on, however Isabelle doesn't look very frightened
... The crit on the B&W has already be done and dusted. Nice spot light narrow beam on Isabelle works nicely with great sharp focus
Relax... Ah you have stolen my pose however I normally do this on a concrete floor without a cushion and then repeatedly bring my head into contact with the floor with great force. This normally occurs, following going to a location without my tripod or with every battery flat.. Good shot, splayed fingers looks more natural
Think your Jim Jams would have looked better rolled to the knees. Nice focus, where was the remote.... I always run out of hands....
One of my Sons used to sleep in the most bizarre of positions, how do they do that?
Vertical.... Very poignant being the start of WW1 last August a lot of commemorations of horrific battles still to come. The second edit straight but symmetry still off a bit.... I always find these challenging shots there's always something squffy isn't there (well that means for me there is) I'll get them to move the RH tree a bit
Its actually almost exactly a dead split even the cloud looks mirror image. I see you have culled the distracting spot lamp at the base of the monument too
. Nice Tones in the image, I think B&W conversion does the monument justice.
***Boredom Warning*** ... If you bored of reading all my drivel by now scroll down to the bottom RH corner and click "Like" now!
Mouth.... Right up my street! Yes you could have lifted the shadow but that's a different photo, this sits nicely with the silhouette, and the fantastic colour! Like the devil eyes (the two deep blue eyes in the cloud). The long exposure has worked really well here and the waters spot on too. Like the layers of highlights in the river as it steps back downstream. Nice hard angular silhouette of the mountains softened and underlined by the deeper black treeline underneath. Lovely gradients of colour in the sky reflected softly in the water. Strong dark diagonal lead in really working well for you here mate! Excellent stuff
Crowd .... Those Zombies after you too? Just draw the curtains mate! No1 for me ..... Like the subtle lighting, only crit is I'd crop a sliver off the RH side to pull it central. Crowd 2, Uummm that is low
Close Up.... No1 again for me spot on focus, really nice detail, soft delicate colour. No2 looks a tad under. Bang on theme.
Alphabet ... Oohh Agh very sharp DOF but good focus like the letters but would have preferred the letter spacing and height uniform not that I'm OCD
All 26 present and correct!
Machine... AKA Terminator Excellent love this No crit from me. Edit is spot on
Sound.... Great lighting always struggle with lights and flashes top marks for that! Great composition, really nice portrait maybe a tad tightly cropped.
Experiment.... Spooky and a real draw, bit like the Mona Lisa if you get my drift! I like it, nice exposure, and entirely different!! Better than burning your eyebrows off!
Heat... Like this too, spot on focus nice and sharp a great composition, make a change from the normal "Flame" shots love the colour too
Phew was that a catch up or what, so you've either shot yourself or beggared off on the long weekend and who can blame you