Throwing a couple photos out there for critique

Hope you guys like.




any feedback welcome

Now that's what I was referring to when I mentioned 'ZING' in another thread - bags of it...

Great eye contact with the little dude and I really like the way that you've made those winter shots work together. I feel there's a couple of them, just on their own, that wouldn't be terribly interesting but they work with each other...

One nit-picky comment on the portrait - shame that the border has just encroached onto his toes - for me there's a degree of humour in the way that he's got his toes curled on the footrest of the stool - it's a very 'kid' thing to do. Easy fix tho...

I like 'em...

Will

Love the montage - real feeling of Canada in winter

good point about the toes. good thing I saved the file as a psd in aperture.
I can resize the canvass, and resize the boarder effect quite easily!
all the images used were done with a ds2, 50mm 1.4, 28-70 f4, and 28-200.

"Hope you guys like"

I like!

Glad the studio is still doing well.

well I bet the little boys parents are delighted and you should be too, although I'm not so keen on the 'polaroid negative ' border but his expression and eye-contact are ace!

Like the pics, but I'd ditch the borders. Complex borders just compete with the image, and I don't think you need them.

Strongly agree.

I'd also like a closer look at the ones that make up the montage.

I agree too, with everything!

A portrait that doesn't show something of the sitter's personality is a waste of space. This is a lovely pic.

G

Great portrait but I agree with John's comment on the borders, simple or none is what I like, not so keen on montages, good images just become too small to pickout any detail, but that only my opinion.

Keep them coming.

Lovely shots
(But I agree about the borders )
Matt

Hi Don,

I like the border of the portrait.. or some of it.

When I first opened the page, and saw the portrait, I thought that the effect was great, in that it added real depth, but I saw only the effect that the top 2/3rds of the LHS border gave it. If you could mimic that all the way round, I think it would work better.. and show the toes of course.

I love the expression, and also the fact that his trousers look about two feet too long, and have been rolled up loads.. nice touch.. by you or his mother.

I like the montage as is, but could probably do with the lettering darkened slightly.. ooh, thought.. give the lettering a white drop shadow, just opaque enough to pronounce the letters more. It'd look great blown up to about 5' and hung on the wall of the local Tourist Information office (or the Canadian equivalent). Give 'em a ring, tell them we said so.

Cheers

Liam

Showed the little guy to the ladies of the household.

Major "Awwwww" factor.

Could just feel those hormones a' poundin'.

If I become a grandfather I'll have Light Expressions to thank

Well done

Don,

Is that your ring flash I see in his eyes?

Sorry about all the separate posts

yes Liam the montage is 16x20 for a class assignment.
The lettering superimposed on "city at night images" shot from a rotating restaraunt from "the Fort Garry Hotel" and is meant to be seen enlarged.
I saw what the other students were turning in and wanted to stand out from a croud of traditionally framed, images stuck to a colored background. With big bold lettering. I am going to try the white drop shadows, maybe even try it with light grey borders....

I felt that if this had been a tourisism brochure that the lettering would need a "slap in the face" type grab for attention, but as it is, I wanted it to catch your attention, draw you into thw scenics with the horfrost, then when you notice the lettering, make you work for it (to read it) and draw you into the city images. these images were all shot on ds2, and also shot on slide film with a k1ooo. simply to show some skill in metering.

The comments on the borders are apreciated.

Mac, sorry no ringflas on this one.
four foot softbox (elenchrom) used from the side (feathered to provide main and fill), one strobe above and behind(equal intensity to the "main" to kick the highlights in the hair and provide seperation, and lastly one strobe behind the white seamles paper backdrop (shoulder hight angled accross to pick up the beige color from the wall, and erase a shadow cast by a livingroom window that was behind the backdrop).
border was added in post with color picked from his pants.