Eyes II

So Festival and football are over.
Felt it!

Thanks to The Giant Match's visit to the frontier, eye grabbed this shot of a puppet.
I toyed with cropping the puppet's eyes out altogether trying to make it more abstract but in the end stuck with this more traditional version. The original contains the eyes (of the puppet) in entirety.

Specs: EOS 7D, sigma 18-50mm at 35mm (crop factor = 56mm) iso 100, fill flash at 1/2 power.

As always comments welcome!

Paul.

seaing eye

The eyes have it. Or do they? Clearly it was the eye that drew me to this gull but there is something that troubles me about the framing.... Maybe I needed more head and less ass? ;-)





Okay, keeping it clean.... Any ideas? I sense there is an inprovement needed but can't quite put my finger on it...?

The image is from the archive, last year eye think! Specs: iso 100; f8 at 1/250th; 350 mm (560approx crop factor); shot off a tripod at about 2m. Meter read off the sky then added about 1/2 stop to keep the whites clean.
Paul.

HDR in the mountains

It's been a while since we've had any activity on the blog. I know there's been lots of shooting out there so it would be great to see some of it (Paul...what about some of your PAWs, Neil what about some street candid's with your new toy :-) ).

Here's a shot from a recent workshop in the Berg that I'd like some feedback on if possible. It's a 5 image HDR (there were more shots but I've only used 5. One of the more complex HDRs that I've done requiring basic as well luminosity masks to get the tonal range that I wanted (a pic of the layer palette before flattening and doing final touches - I had to flatten as the computer wouldn't allow more steps). The problem is that I'm worried that it looks too much like an HDR.

then there's the flare. Yay or nay? Part of me loves it, part of me hates it. Hard to decide really.

so any comments or suggestions would be great as I'm finding myself on the fence on this one.

Cheers
E

The Eyes Have It

So I took these pics while on Emil's St Lucia photography course (sign yourself up! It's great!). It was for our last day's project and the only speficationa were that it had to have a common thread and you had to present it. The people in these photo's are all staff members, it's black and white and they're portraits. I'm interested to know your thoughts..