[PaulG]

December 24, 2008 at 1:42 am

1st photo looks great.
2nd looks a bit bright on the face – lighting flattens the face a little bit too much!
3rd facial expression doesn’t do it for me but technically good. Expression seems to have brought out frown lines. Tiny bit too much light to the right hand side of the face but lighting to back and shoulders seems more like it.
4th looks nice but again lighting seems a tad strong. Are you using a silver reflector? Lighting just seems a tiny bit unnatural? There’s just a certain type of glow off it (but could be my monitor – same thing is wha I think is what I’m getting at in pics 2 & 3).

All very minor points, mind :)

[PaulG]

December 24, 2008 at 1:31 am

Absolutely class first pic.

Pink jocks in the second pic add a bit of cheekiness and superb lighting but not sure about where the background ends! It distracts the eyes a tiny bit away from the model but I’d imagine the ladies wouldn’t notice it :wink:

[PaulG]

September 13, 2008 at 11:01 am

Wow, he’s an intimidationg looking fecker!

Great photo. The feather detail looks great.

[PaulG]

September 13, 2008 at 10:56 am

Seeing that, I think it was better the first time :oops:

I think the off centre figure works well but due to the crop, the change in proportions of the photo means it doesn’t look as well as the original.

Still looks class 8)

[PaulG]

September 13, 2008 at 10:48 am

Love the first pic. Can’t tell if the 2 bits of rock in the foreground works or if showing more sky would have been better but still really like it.

2nd pic looks bit overexposed which seems to have washed the sky out a bit!

[PaulG]

September 11, 2008 at 4:37 pm

First pic, looks over saturated and being honest does not intrigue me or draw me in or connect with me on any level.

The second photo is HDR but the subject matter is again not grabbing me. A cyclist or sheep walking down the road (or sheep cycling down the road) would give more context to the photo and be a play on SLOW. But as it stands its a picture of a modern country road. The image looks either soft or overprocessed.

No 3 again has very little do grab me. It’s a sheep walking across a field :?

Probably not the type of comments you were looking for!

I’m all for making the ordinary look extraordinary but I think you need to look at it from different interesting angles, give a different perspective to the mundane and ordinary to draw the viewer in.

Hope that helps a bit or maybe there’s a function to switch off my messages!!!

[PaulG]

September 10, 2008 at 11:34 am

Really like this photo. The sepia works really well.

Having the stones to the left hand side might improve the composition and give a more vast and flowing feel to the background but that’s about it.

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 4:39 pm

Interesting photo. I like the splash of colour the blue blind in the background adds. Looks a bit dark and an intersting old soul strolling along the path would add more of a sense of place to it.

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 4:36 pm

10 out of 10 for bravery with your camera out around the customs house! Did the junkies not pose for you? :)

Nice photos, espeically with them being handheld.

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Great photo. Great building with a good sky to add a bit more too.

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 4:22 pm

That’d be tough! Do they not just let the lads skulk away unnoticed?

At least you got to see a winner in Waterford with Cavendish a couple of weeks ago ;)

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 1:15 pm

That’s a freaky looking creature :)

Class photos. Really like 1 & 3

Are you hand holding the camera or using a tripod?

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 11:44 am

Great photo.

The lad on the left is a tiny bit distant (not just his cool, I’m in a band so I don’t look at anybody vibe) but his position. Shifting him to the left a foot and showing more of his body might have helped but then like most band shots, there’s always a couple of blokes left floating in the background :wink:

Great atmosphere to the shot.

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 11:38 am

Focus seems to be on his right ear! If his eyes were sharply in focus it would lift the image.

[PaulG]

September 9, 2008 at 11:36 am

Just a few suggestions on the presentation-

The sky in the background is very distracting.
The layout of the photos doesn’t add any feeling of the image
The ‘cutting out’ of the images with the wavy bottom is very distracting
The facial expressions are not different enough to warrant 5 images in 1.

Might be worth just going with 3 photos and leave them with their natural background and just lay them horizontally or vertically alongside each other with a tidy border!