Meet Raina (Contains Nudity)

[ndwgolf]

Chamonix 8x10 Trix320 f45 1/30

 

[Mick Fagan]

Looks wonderful, certainly hasn't taken you long to come to grips with view cameras.

Have you considered cropping the bright sky from the top of the image, thereby (in my mind anyway) concentrating everything more on your subject?

Mick.

 

[Down Under]

Golly, the new Photrio is certainly giving us new images to, well, consider.

Is this what we can expect more of in the "new" direction for the site?

I have enjoyed ndwgolf's postings and his excellent photography in the past, but I believe this is taking us all in entirely new areas. Technically this image is up to his usual high standards, but in terms of content I for one am not entirely sure I'm comfortable or happy with it.

 

[ndwgolf]

Looks wonderful, certainly hasn't taken you long to come to grips with view cameras.

Have you considered cropping the bright sky from the top of the image, thereby (in my mind anyway) concentrating everything more on your subject?

Mick.

Thanks for that Mick, I have modified that picture and added a few more................Comments?

All pictures taken with my Chamonix 8x10 with Trix320 developed in D76 stock

Neil

 

[summicron1]

She's very pretty, but I think you need to work on your composition to make the most of a lovely girl. In these I think the girls and her surroundings clash.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Neil, The vertical crop of your original picture is good and takes away all of the light sections of the image that our eyes are drawn towards, however, I do think cropping from the right side has made the picture, as presented, too tight and centred too much on your subject. I think that just a crop from the top would be about right, but of course your thoughts are what count.

As for the other two.

The outdoors one, I'm not that keen on, your subject is competing with a very busy and similarly bright background that sort of takes ones eyes away from the subject.

The indoors one is a lot better with regard to light other than what is upon your subject, but I do think the bright object on the right side should be toned down, or if in a darkroom, burnt in to a similar colour of the surrounding material. A dappled light reflector (crumpled aluminium foil for instance) would seem to me to have been beneficial. That said, I myself have often wished I had used a reflector after the fact.

For product photography, where the product was clothing, we often had a darkish background and would lift the model and clothes with a vertical shaped reflector, which was usually nothing more than a piece of chipboard roughly the same size and shape as the model and covered with crumpled aluminium foil.

All in all though, I think you are streets ahead of most of us.

Mick.

 

[Camera-man]

Here's my comments on an older thread...

1. I like the first image better than the cropped version. The sky gives the subject some air/space and gives the girl some breathing room,
2. The second one is too light and I think you need to have the girl to be not wearing the underwear and the shoes that way it will keep with your theme.
3. I rather like this one the pose and the shy smile...all good.

Overall they're all very good work with a 8x10 view camera! The only thing missing is a little more work on the technical part of the images, the digital part. Also
I wonder what the images would look like with the 8x10 borders posted, the full image....

Again nice work and be proud of it!

John