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You're talking to @pjm1, right? Okthxbye!So ......a photo 24 might actually cool ur wings maybe? It's great for those of a philosophical bent..
You're talking to @pjm1, right? Okthxbye!So ......a photo 24 might actually cool ur wings maybe? It's great for those of a philosophical bent..
You're talking to @pjm1, right? Okthxbye!
Well.....I was kinda of talking to u both.... now give me a show of hands and say YEAH!!! ............... no?
Hi
Like the colours and detail in your Personal shot. Contents of the handbag seem far too tidy to be true lol. Where's the screwed up tissue and the scrap of paper with a hastily written note! Your studio set up sounds a bit like mine
Love the Effort shot. You've caught the look of concentration, the little frown in particular. Great to see her reading a Real book too.
Effort i like, b&w works well.
Hi Sheylara love the red of the handbag against the black ....but I do like blacks to be really black, just my personal preference ...for a moody, secretive shot which was your intention I would have stuck with sunglasses, phone and maybe some keys. I use matt black card for black backgrounds.....it works well.
Your set up sounds like mine with my camera balanced on a couple of books and a box of tissues
Effort is magic ...perfect for the theme, love the composition
Personal certainly fits the theme I have to confess far more rubbish in my handbag than there should be (lots of receipts, old tickets and stuff )
Effort - what a great picture you have captured it just right with the focus on the face.
Effort is great, you can see the effort and concentration in that eyebrow. Well done.
I like Effort too. Perfect focus and PoV showing the eyes, just, over the top of the book.
I like personal Sheylara.
People joke about it all the time, but the contents of a woman's handbag can be highly personal! (I love the bag too)
Effort is great too....I love to see kids engrossed in a book....whatever age!
HI Sheylara. I don't find anything in the bg particularly distracting - the environment is what it is imo. I think it['s an excellent grab shot for the theme - the composition and use of DoF are especially good. Spot on.
Yup, that works for me Sheylara
It tells a story and the photograph itself has been captured (and composed) thoughtfully - so it's not just a grabshot IMO. It makes me smile even more that there is no-one apparently watching the cricket, so it's a story of someone who doesn't want to offend by asking to change channels.
Good fun and a great idea for the theme. Lighting on the hand etc. are all good for me too and obvious DOF is spot on.
I agree with the above comments, it works as it is
I like cricket oh yeah
... and no posers in this shot.
Classic use of DoF ... and over-the-shoulder never fails.
The background helps to tell the story here...so many choices in our technological age - but most of them seem to involve sport on this occasion Lovely use of dof to suggest the (presently) unwatched cricket.
Sheylara hi, liking you Technology photo, seems that the view every night in most house up and down the country. Cool idea and good DoF
Well spotted Sheylara ...it works really well for the theme. That's a familiar sight in our house when the sport is on at the weekend.....OH says he can watch both at once!
I agree, the shot works as is and the shallow DoF means that we don't really see the clutter.
WTF is he dong NOT watching the Cricket??????
Technology - I like the over the shoulder POV. nothing distracting about the background for me.
Nothing at all wrong with that Sheylara. Liked your thought processes behind the final production; the image behind draws the eye and the subtle nature of it's presence creates something for the viewer to look and wonder at. I like it - creative thinking .
Very creative Sheylara. It works really well especially with your niece and the dog.
I like it, great colour and slightly Banksey looking.
Nice work ...
slightly Banksey looking ... yes thanks Clive.
The purists would say it needs flipping.
Oh, but what should I have flipped?
Wow, thank you so much for looking through all my photos and offering such thoughtful and kind comments to so many of them! Really appreciate you taking the time as comments, good and bad, help me learn. Thank you!Hi Sheylara, it's my first visit to your thread after my own big catch-up, so I've just had a gallop through your images and picked out some favourites so far.
Captive is spot on for the theme with those strong bars, and the contrasting out of focus background is colourful and gives a real sense of looking out from captivity.
Abandoned - well spotted! Perfect for the theme with that sad face and the people walking away in the background. Desaturating the colours adds a sad feel to the image, too
Happy - well chosen props, and the bright colours and the smiling face of the tiger leave no doubt about this theme. Lovely OOF background and the low POV works very well.
Artificial - an original idea and I think you picked the right point to focus on, as the contact lens is the 'artificial' part of the image. Your model is sharp enough to complete the image, and B&W is the right choice.
Technology - Good idea for the theme. I don't find the BG distracting as it sets the environment, and the main points of interest are the two screens. The fact that they're both green and a similar size in the image make it all balance really well
Horizonal - and now I'm up to date That bold blue and the strong lines work well together as an abstract, and the addition of your niece and dog come almost as a surprise when you notice them. Your explanation of your thought process is interesting and I think it works well. Definitely a creative take on the theme.
You're making some lovely images, especially as you're new to using a DSLR. I'll be following in future so hopefully I'll stay up to date now
Ah! I've never heard that one before and it's useful to know for the future. Thanks!It's been said on here before .... something about things/people are best on the left of the frame.
I flipped a pic in last years 52s and I think it worked.
But looking at your Horizontal again, I personally think it's best left as it is.
Hi Sheylara, it's an interesting image and I like that. If it's a piece of art and a composition which is designed to be as it is, then I think it works really well. I like looking at it and would be happy to do so for longer - which is my definition of a good piece of art
If you'd wanted to simulate a silhouette, however, a couple of tweaks would be needed. Silhouettes have the light behind the subject, which means shadows being cast directly towards the camera (usually). There may well be a brighter area in the cloth corresponding to where the sun/light is coming from - perhaps just peeking around the side of the silhouetted subject but it could be anywhere. And the silhouette has to be colourless and basically just a darker tone (i.e. grey) applied over the cloth. You can do this with a darken/burn mask in photoshop.
So - I like the image as is but it would be intriguing to see it as a silhouette as well!
Thank you for your lovely comments and tips on making a silhouette! It's certainly helpful! Ashamedly, I still don't know how to work with masks. Just another one of those millions of things I need to spend more time on figuring out.
I did realise my silhouette wasn't quite a silhouette. It was all because of my rubbish cut-and-paste skills. I had to cut out the girl and dog from a rather messy background with lots of highlights and shadows everywhere, didn't have hours to spend with limited skills, so did a rather choppy job. When I tried to darken the image to make it more silhouettey, the jagged edges showed! So I had to leave it as was and merely adjusted the transparency.
I thought being able to see some details on girl and dog added a different kind of interest so I let that be an excuse for my shoddy work.
Aww, thanks! That's really kind of you to say.It was only a suggestion really - if that was your intention. I agree that seeing some detail and therefore it not being a "true" silhouette is appealing and I do think that works as it is. There's no "shoddy work" that I can see here