1872. when men were men and happines was a dirty saddle and a breeze.
by fstopopen

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And a baseball cap and a t-shirt from wal-mart?

35 B.C.
by Shaman

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Uhm. This is really cool because I have tried to make a costume for a Roman Centurion before including a spear. That is really well done.

I think it is a bit odd that the Roman Guard has a beard. Roman soldiers were to be clean shaven.

A little bit of fill on the other side would improve the pic, but it's very nice..

Ready to perform. (Traveling Players 1805)
by fredandaud

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I believe the word you are looking for is Troubadors... traveling players...

Decent pic. I would have liked a bit more of the castle myself, but I am a bit funny that way.

Karmann
by Matthew

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Beautiful picture of a beautiful car. I had a 69 1/2 convertible a while back. Very possibly my favorite car of all time... with modifications of course.

I like how the road indicates movement but the reflection is sharp and clear. This is a very good pic.

Night Light...
by Terramar

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I like this better than the other much higher placed shot. The other shot is burned out, but this has beautiful lighting throughout. The lightning is spidery and brightens a patch of sky.

Be proud of this one.

Black Sabbath
by graphicfunk

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I think my favorite thing about this is quite simply the position of your strobe. The model is so well lit in initial position. Very nice.

The shot by nazgul beats this because you can also see that he is standing on a picturesque rock. This is still totally amazingly great though!

Implements of the Rain Maker
by aboutimage

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I like it in colour, but I must say, in black and white, it gives a certain perfection to the picture that puts it all together. Well done!

Paris, Sacre Coeur
by airdance

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Nice image with lots of interest with the people and great colour.

If you were to shoot it again, I would suggest perhaps moving forward and going wider in your zoom if possible. This will get rid of the wire, and change where the tree interacts with the building.

Things to watch for would include the angle on that foreground promenade.

Try cropping a slice off the bottom. It places more interest on the cathedral at the cost of the depth of the photo. It won't necessarily make it better, but it changes the pic quite a bit. You might like the depth or you might prefer it a little flatter, more like a postcard perhaps.

Ali 2
by airdance

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Your focus is really good. Can't complain about the composition either, but I would say that your lighting is a little unbalanced. I don't know if that was intentional, but I would guess it isn't.

One tool that you might want to look at for correcting the lighting in this picture would be the tutorial on shadows and highlights on this website. Most notable is the blown area of highlights under the eye where you lose the detail of the fur. Also, you lose detail in the shadow areas.

Another thing you might want to look at would be the lighting in the sense of how to shoot other pictures.

It is often said that if you have a strong direct light, try to place something that either blocks or diffuses that light in it's most direct path.

Most people use cloth screens or bouncecards. Some use a bouncecard to lighten the other part of the subject, largely preserving the special quality of the light they saw in the first place, others would block the light to soften it's effects. In this picture, the result would be that the catchlights in the eyes would be changed, allowing more detail of the iris, rather than of the catchlights themselves. Notice how it is easier to see the eye that is behind, but it is out of the depth of field.

If you balanced your light differently, I feel it would allow you to expose a little differently and get more detail in the foreground eye and balance your shadows a little.

I am by no means an expert in using these techniques, but that is just what I gather from the basic principles.

i hope it helps.

Soaring by Glacier Bay
by Neil

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This is a seriously wonderful picture. The only thing I can say that might be better is the lighting on the seagull. You might consider experimenting with the dodge tool in Photoshop. I personally don't like doing that for natural photos like your daughter's, so I would say that it is amazing as it stands. The gull is in exactly the right place. The composition is excellent. Your daughter has an amazing eye! This is a wonderful way to take advantage of the DOF of digital cameras.

This is a re-placement of an earlier message when I didn't quite click in on the method in the Comment Chain thread