Lenny Wollitz

Hi Ann.  Cool idea!  I like the photo processed pretty much as is including the vignette.  I tried cropping it tight in the lower right corner but that removed a lot of the negative space.  It looks real nice on good sized screen.

Hi Jasenka and thank your for your comment!  Yes, I know about and have used the sharpen mask in LR and thanks for the reminder.  I would like to use something to fill in the edges to make them more of a solid line.  I’m probably not explaining it very well and I was asking because I’m not really up on the latest post stuff.  I’m having a new sup…[Read more]

Dahlia, I’m not sure what you mean by unreal.  My processing skills are not equal to many her but on the other hand, I processed this 10 years ago so who knows what I did.  Can’t find the original so redoing this small photo could be difficult.

I love dark chocolate with a bold red wine!  Like Jasenka I would like just a hint more of the wine jug, ja, ja, ja.

Thanks for looking.  I added just a tad of highlights, whites and texture to correct the darkness and softness.  What do you guys think of this version?

I agree that the foreground is a bit cluttered but this a little bit of a candid shot so you have to take what you can get.  Still, a very nice photo for the  family album.  Rob, enjoy the little ones while you can it seems like the grow up all of a sudden.  I wish I had more of my grown up daughter.

Thank you all for the interest!  I will look at  the highlights but I kinda think they show, to quote Diane, how really, really bright it was. When a street shot is not technically perfect I like to make the excuse that the story is more important ,-)

Hi Valery.  Another nice one!  A still life question.  Should there be an obvious subject in this type of photo or is the entire photo the subject?

I agree with Patrick, a little too much vignette.  Cute kid!!!

This turned into quite a processing project because of the lighting and the people.

Diane is right.  It is really, really, really, really bright.  The sky was totally blown out so I replaced it and he was in backlight and in deep  shadow.  The bags had condensation on the inside of them from being in the hot sun.  Suggestions for camera sett…[Read more]

Hi Rob, I really like the composition.  I don’t necessarily think the surfer is to small but is inconsequential compared to the rest of the photo.  I wonder if you could do something in post so the sky isn’t stealing the show?

Hola Rob,   I like this as but with Halloween and day of the dead coming up I was thinking… how about adding a silhouette of a witch flying across the moon?

Please don’t call me your “mate” it has a totally different meaning here than there.

Sorry Patrick.  I guess I just wasn’t brought up right, my parents would be sad to hear!  My thoughts are that there’s too many attaboys here which would be better off in the other forums. One should have a little bit of thick skin if they want a real critique in the shark tank. Maybe there should be two shark tank forums. One for nicey nice and o…[Read more]

Patrick, civility can become boring.  We used to have some spicy conversations here but it’s pretty vanila now.  Things ebb flow.

Hey Duncan, it’s good to hear from you amigo!  I know the shot is crap.  I’m recycling and trying to do something with crappy photos while I sit in my house and supervise construction for another 6 weeks.  Still on the farm?  The group here has become quite civilized so I hope you stick around for awhile and change that a bit!