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The main thing to remember is that every photo is worth showing and could receive either good reviews or bad. The good reviews drive many to do better and this goes for bad reviews as well - so don’t be shy, post. Who knows one of your pics could become photo of the week or win in one of the challenges - but you have to be in it to win it. . .

chris i really like this candid portrait but actually find the colour to be distracting, taking away from the subject. i like how this guy is looking down, all the age lines on his face, and it tells some kind of story.

do u have an all B&W version, or maybe just a white hat might look interesting...

composition is bang on tho!
and nice sharp image too...

Chris I like it! Nice concept, rather than the reverse

I find the blown hat to be more of a distraction than the coloured background.

Tis a fitting candid of a sad man (or woman - we can't assume anything these days).

chris... the colour and b&w version doesn't work for me... although the pp work is very well done...

i'd love to see a straight b&w version..

cheers

Message received and understood Chris...
I just wish I had a little more time available to get out, to practice and to take shots like this one...

xerubus wrote:chris... the colour and b&w version doesn't work for me... although the pp work is very well done...

i'd love to see a straight b&w version..

cheers

Here you go mark

I like the split. The colour in the BG shows excitment and "colour" where as the subject is in the "darkness"
I like it! The fisrt one that is.

sirhc55 wrote:

xerubus wrote:chris... the colour and b&w version doesn't work for me... although the pp work is very well done...

i'd love to see a straight b&w version..

cheers

Here you go mark

But now you need a new title...

I agree totally with your comments and think its great to share your images with a collective audience, you can learn so much from another opinon or two.

With repect to your picture, Its interesting how you can suggest or expand on an emotion with a change in some of the tones. It gives me another angle to think about whilst at the view finder

Cheers

Sean

At first I was thinking it would be great in black and white. Then I saw that version nd I actually prefer the first one. I think the colour actually brightens up the pic.

sirhc55 wrote:

xerubus wrote:chris... the colour and b&w version doesn't work for me... although the pp work is very well done...

i'd love to see a straight b&w version..

cheers

Here you go mark

much better to my eye... great shot... and without the colour it has a more emotional feel for me...

nice work Chris..

cheers

Chris,

I liked the first post, very nice bit of PP. But I must say I prefer the B&W version better. Seems to suit the subject better IMO.

Cheers
Peter

Another vote for B & W, but then I have always liked B & W.

At a slight tangent I find that I rarely comment on a picture unless I like it, as I really don't feel qualified to make a negative comment, especially given the standard of some of the work posted here.

I've gotta say that I like both versions... a change in treatment provides a different experience.

Can I ask though if pictures posted here can include some technical details (ss/fstop/lens maybe) so that we maybe all can learn and benefit from some of this great work...

I know that I might be able to find it embedded in the file but the technically challenged amongst us (hand held high in the air) would find this helpful.

thoughts???

Michael.

Mj there are several View Exif programs that are free downloads. Do a Google and you should find something.

I am going to have to fess up to something wrong that I used to do. Prior to this forum and when I used the D1 (this pic is from the D1) I never kept any EXIF data - not to sure why not but then again I used to save all of my pics to CYMK and not RGB.

I have, myself, learnt a lot from this forum and now I keep all RAW files along with a TIF file, and of course the EXIF data.

My vote is ....I prefer the original post with B&W figure on a coloured backdrop. A downbeat charactor contemplating an upbeat world around him/her? It's a very neat PS job and very easy to look at......
just my 20 cents worth!

Chris... no worries... love your work for the most part and always keen to understand how a photo that I enjoy was achieved (at least tehnically).

Oneputt, I have a number of exif viewers... however that would require that I download the picture and then check the exif... time does not always permit and I believe that it would be good practice for us all to provide some basis technical info about any photo we post. Also many times (as Chris has 'fessed' up) the exif gets lost through PP etc making any exif viewer useless. Perhaps it's only me who would like to set a standard like this... if so... so be it !!!

Michael.

I agree Mj - if every posting included the EXIF data, or at least a reason why not, it would make the viewing a lot more interesting

Mj wrote:however that would require that I download the picture and then check the exif...

Hi mj... If you download Opanda's IEXIF, you can (usually) simply right click on the image in the forum and it will give you an option to display the EXIF... It doesn't display everything, but it covers the basics...
All of the above is assuming that you use Windows of course (sorry Chris)...

Chris... was thinking just including a simply line of text to the post like...

Spec: 1/60, f/8, lens 28/1.4

Pulled down a few photos tonight and checked each exif... nothing preserved on any of them, which wouldn't be a prob if we provided a simple set of info as above. Fraid I'm not inclined to critic a photo if I have no idea how it was created. Of course if no one likes the idea, no prob... but I think many of us would benefit greatly.

Michael.

Michael - all of my postings from now on will include information

Thx, John... I did indeed have that program... just haven't had the time to explore it, so on you recommendation have just installed and tried it out.
Certainly makes things easier and I'll use it now quite a bit... however still won't help for those photos where PP has interferred (quite a few on the site I think) and doesn't look like it will tell me what lens was used.

Thx again...

Michael.

Mj wrote:It doesn't look like it will tell me what lens was used.

No... unfortunately the lens information is one of the few pieces of info that is missing...

I can tell you that the lens used for this shot was the 28-105mm Nikkor

I thinks that it is fair enough to ask for EXIF. In future I will try to remember to include it when I post.

Chris
I prefer the all B&W version.

Mj
I'm usually too lazy to include EXIF data so I don't. On reflection though I agreee with what you say. This is a photographic forum not a picture forum. I'll endeavour to include EXIF data in all future posts.

Thanks for posting these Chris. I can see merit in both pics but probably prefer the first if I had to make a choice.

I'm really appreciative when I see EXIF data in the main text. It really helps newer photographers like myself get a handle on technique and lens choices.

Regards,

The B&W version seems to have so much more emotion to me...

The subject seems either deep in thought... Nice capture...

Cheers,
Mudder