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Glass Consciousness (2) antbs/Bradd (713)			from commart/James (1,524) on May 20, 2008 10:47:13 PM CDT (1) Our museum in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA features several marvelous examples of painterly photorealism, and each involves glass (grapes are popular too). Glass, because of its specular highlights, refraction, color, and transparency provides an always attractive and yet often far overlooked subject for pure aesthetic and design contemplation. On this shot, I rather wish you had used other than NC160. This is Kodachrome territory, possibly Velvia, but, fairly nice for...
Whiskey mixed??? (3) flypot/Met (479)			from commart/James (1,524) on May 12, 2008 7:41:24 AM CDT (1) The technique works fine--a little experimentation never hurts--but the composition may contain some weakening impulses: is the picture about drinking? about Jack Daniels? about rivalry between colas? is it about the nuts? :) Were I playing art director, I would reduce the composition to "1 + 1 = " : that is the Daniels bottle, cola, and the glass. In what arrangement -- a lineup, a triangle, separate spotlighting -- I'm not sure. But reduced to just those three...
shade play (3) martinfoto/Martin (1,124)			from commart/James (1,524) on May 9, 2008 10:06:16 AM CDT (1) Light is nothing; shadow is everything. This shot may be interpreted as an afterthought as there was that moment when the latte, or some such, had been perfect at the brim, all waiting, all anticipation. There's always a statement alternative in, say, wilted and dead flowers, or bohemian spreads with empty beer bottles and full ashtrays, but, I suspect, this was not one of those. There's another pretty element waiting: the chocolate. Conventional...
Shutter out the light, adjust (4) stmv/Sebastian (60,076)			from commart/James (1,524) on May 4, 2008 10:05:57 PM CDT (7) I have a series like this elsewhere and may share with you that I found it liberating to shoot not only window blinds but shadows of them and partials for a while. What we're really doing, of course, at the design level is delighting in industrial art fit to market-tested preferences and tastes in decor. At another level, however, there is in these enshadowed pieces a sense of the solitary. The dark rooms where blinds, curtains, and shades have blocked out daylight...
Another Night in Petaluma (7) calen/Calen (319)			from commart/James (1,524) on May 4, 2008 1:05:01 PM CDT (4) Night shots are just the sweetest things. I often find them calm, unpopulated, colorful, mysterious, etc. This one: 1. Reduce grain: keep the camera on a tripod; shoot low ISO; hope for the best. There's also the possibility of using a graduated neutral density filters--if you ever do, use the cards, not the screw-on hemispheric type--to even the scene and give the darks a little more recording space. Lightroom seems to do a little somethin' with "smoothing"...
Waiting for the summer, Bluffers Park Toronto, Ontario (4) mullerpavel/Pavel (2,907)			from commart/James (1,524) on April 28, 2008 7:39:11 PM CDT (2) I thought I'd pick up a critique point here but really hope to provide a useful Rx. Off the bat, I thought I was looking at a modest or slight duotone and was surprised to see it was truly, and then with that notorious pink in it, in color. One thing you may, could, or should do (choose, lol) in-camera is review colorspace options, which include more than colorspace choices. :D RAW is RAW and the election to shoot Adobe RGB, which I think you should (I do, anyway)...
Tyndall AFB's Gulf Coast Salute 2008 - F15 Eagle (4) tropicdiver/Bob (14,060)			from commart/James (1,524) on April 20, 2008 8:42:40 PM CDT (1) The very few things that may have given this photograph a little more punch: 1. Circular Polarizing filter to cut the glare on the cockpit, darken the sky, and enrich the colors in the after-burner (?) area. 2. One may also adjust "curves" and pursue a "look of the film" that resembles some part of the chemistry and engineering we used to know, lol, so I would treat that as a matter of taste rather than technical imperative. 3. This may be important, especially...
the strength of woman (12) juliag/Julia (9,207)			from commart/James (1,524) on April 19, 2008 7:07:45 PM CDT (5) If there's not a name for this latest style from you, I'd apply New Renaissance. Humanist, entwined with nature, not too Rococo but rather on the way, it's art for the court, fierce, heroic, narcissistic, and noble. You may expand your technique and palette, but the nature of your craft ethic is that you're not going to much improve, if any, any single work. You get what you want, and if the hair falls into the muddy darks (or just plain black), toward what does...
(Blocked) goodman0925/Jason (40)			from commart/James (1,524) on April 2, 2008 8:44:35 PM CDT (3) Flawless! The tonality you chose, not just the black and white but this particular silky and balanced version of it, perfectly suits the retro Afro look. To go on just a moment, I think it's important to build whole series or projects from a found and worthwhile technique. This one's so nice, I haven't looked at your portfolio, but off-hand, this look would do for a fashion editorial. There's a tiny white fleck on the model's upper lip and lower--didn't see...
Flower (2) leondamhansen/Leon (742)			from commart/James (1,524) on March 30, 2008 12:40:23 PM CDT (2) This is really lovely. It's not giving me quite the "wow" it could, but, you know, there are cheap ways to do that--drop the lower part of the curve; add blue to the shadows; work a little bit with the edges; etc.--but I think there also comes a point in photographic recording where everything up to and including the exposure is really quite good (although I do wonder about getting more depth-of-field in this sort of flower shot). Iterative treatments: conform the...
timeless (83) juliag/Julia (9,207)			from commart/James (1,524) on March 29, 2008 4:26:28 PM CDT (12) Your style is distinct and recognizable, I think, without your name. It's been nice in the audience catching segments, maybe, of the evolution. You're working in the space where photography and illustration have come together quite well, and it's a lovely space. To be negative: Thomas Kincaid. To be positive: Victorian lockets and such. Either way, neither the photography or graphic art techniques are issues: only the place of the art in the literature of...
Model Ghazal...Persian Beauty (3) murlon/Murugesan (9,068)			from commart/James (1,524) on March 28, 2008 4:52:02 PM CDT (4) Pretty girl! Beauty portraits take a little bit of work: 1. Atmosphere: location plus lighting design. Most popular: bright, soft, even light. Aids: scrimbs, umbrellas, softboxes, surface bounce, etc. Studio lamps help, of course, but a speedflash bounced off of a large white card (or one modified by a light diffusing device) generally helps. 2. Model: makeup and styling. Fashion art has a language all its own, perhaps, but if you "build" the face to produce...
Easter Day (3) contax976/Antonio (10)			from commart/James (1,524) on March 27, 2008 6:34:14 PM CDT (3) When I see work done this well, I want to see the series next. If I were in the decor or gallery business, I might want to know size, process, and paper information. Flower photography, often dismissed with sunsets, may also be considered a part of portraiture--in a sense, the plant has a body and a face. Once brought into the studio, meticulously lit, recorded with attention to DOF and background . . . it is no different than shooting a person (even if it doesn't...
an umbrella in a raining day (4) bitman78/Ezio (1,399)			from commart/James (1,524) on March 23, 2008 6:36:13 PM CDT (1) Most wouldn't equate "street" with "landscapes" but the truth is both take a lot of blessing of the photographer with synchronicity. The concept here is classic, wonderful, striking, but there are some things neither the shooter nor fate can fix. Every exposure in "street" is a done deal. For one thing, this may have been more dramatic and suggestive with the human / umbrella coming into the frame from the lower right, anticipating an arc to the left, instead of half...
winter story (6) bbar0109/Jaeseung (30)			from commart/James (1,524) on March 23, 2008 6:21:36 PM CDT (1) Unadorned "straight photography": it has been done to death. In black and white. Everywhere in the world. And yet you found something new to say. Well, it ain' over 'til it's over--and with this simple story, this glimpse of what just happened, you've told us it's not going to be over for a while. Nice shot.

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