m_driscoll
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Another one from the alley. Cheers, Matt.
M9; 24mm f/1.4; 1/750s @ f/2.4; ISO 80
http://mdriscoll.zenfolio.com
M9; 24mm f/1.4; 1/750s @ f/2.4; ISO 80
http://mdriscoll.zenfolio.com
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Here are some more... Luanda, Angola...
Cheers,
Peter
Ditto Steve and Lloyd on this image. Great stuff, Matt!Matt, This Bumps Up To Close To The Top As A Favorite! Love The Low Angle Color,Framing & "Dude" In The Background Jamming! Everything In The Frame Belongs! Excellent!!!:thumbs:
Pure magic, like something out of a fairy tale. Great image, Mike!
Mike
Lovely series from San Fran, David. I love the Transamerica and Coit Tower caps, but the second one here just has a beautiful and subtle glow. Well seen!And a couple more with the 24mm.
Ashwin: Thank you, my friend. Cheers, Matt.Ditto Steve and Lloyd on this image. Great stuff, Matt!
Dan, Wonderful Color & Composition!
Steph...Love These 2!Hi everybody, here are a few ones with the M9 :
first, please meet Elliot through the Cron 50mm :
And now, romance in the tropical garden, through the marvellous Canon 0.95 at 0.95 and iso2000 ( note the delicate rainbow circle wic appears sometimes with backlight subjects, ..I definitively love this lens) :
The last one is a 24s pose to capture the seaside of Saint-Pierre in Reunion Island, with the 28 mm CRON :
No need to say I have been delighted with all your precedent posts ( I call it The GetDpi Collection !! )
Stephane
Beautiful & Appropriate...Mike Woods!Winter not far off now, but this afternoon was autumn at its best. These really don't do it justice.
First with the 35mm Ultron, the rest with the 75mm Heliar:
Regards
Mike
And a couple more with the 24mm.
David...Wide Angle & It Finest!
Vlad, Masterful Contrast,Framing & Emotion!Peter, your Angola pictures literally made my jaw drop. So have many other images in this thread. Phenomenal. This thread is my daily bookmark that I load first in the morning (rather: whenever it is I wake up, usually not the morning hours) and the last thread I visit before going to sleep. Intensely good work.
If I had to give this a name, I'd call it "home sick".
Love the Dark,Old School Feel! Great Shot El Ma(t)tador!Still raining when I pp'd this one. Cheers, Matt
M9; 24mm f/1.4; 1/30s @ f/1.4; ISO 80
Cheers, Matt
http://mdriscoll.zenfolio.com
3,5,6,7,8 & 9 are real nice. Number one is questionable, and numbers two and four are not your best work. Delete them all three. Keep working doing what you were doing with the rest. People are your thing, close in tight portraits. Work that direction, and you should find your rewards.
Posting this many photos as a group makes it almost impossible to comment on each of them, forcing something like I just wrote above. I can't see your image remember when writing this post. I must work from memory. Due to my advanced age, my memory isn't what it once was. Hold your posting to one or two, and I can give you lots of constructive feedback if you want it. More than that, it is just an exhibition gallery. Post one or two images, and folks can drink it in fully. More is overwhelming, but that's just my opinion, others have theirs.
The one on the left of the three boys first. Stunning. As good as it gets for even some of the best. I mite work it up a bit differently in post, though what you have certainly works.
The one on the right on the other hand doesn't work and nothing will fix it. You basically had an f8 exposure, and too slow a shutter speed. I love the effect you were trying for myself, but you got to nail it or it is just not there. Sharp focus in the front and sharp focus in the rear and all that confusion in the middle isn't great photography, it is just an effect in areas that caught your eye. There isn't even a reasonable crop that can fix all this confusion. You want only a SINGLE point of focus, and the rest confusion so it draws your eye naturally to the focal point. Start shooting wide open and just learn to live with tossing out a lot of tries that get close, but just don't make it. The few that do make all that work not wasted, but an exercise in patience. Something we can all use more of.
I'm also going to share a couple of things my own mentors have passed down to me. First thing everybody needs to learn to become a great photographer is to become a great editor first. Editors serve a very valuable purpose, they edit the thousands of images a photographer submits and distill the selection down to a few great frames. Be this editor. Be absolutely brutal in your cutting. Accept absolutely nothing but your very best, and even rotate those out of your portfolio when you produce better to replace them with. And you will most certainly create better work if your standards are at the very top end.
Editing is not about choosing the winners, it is about loosing the posers all vying for your attention, and then seeing what's left on the table, if anything.
Two rules I use:
1) "If any doubt, toss it out."
2.) Photos either work, or they don't. If they work, nobody cares about my justification for showing it, it works and we all appreciate the beauty of it for what it is, a finely crafted image.
If it doesn't work, nobody cares about my justification for showing it either, it simply doesn't work. Great photography has always been done in the world of blacks and whites. It works, it doesn't work. It never "almost" works but I'll post it anyway cause nobody else will notice if I slip it in between a couple great shots that I know do work.
Hope this helps, and do keep on shooting those portraits. You have some real talent there that can be developed even more with practice.