Walter Lustig

I honestly think that this is getting ridiculous. So, if Ansel Adams were posting one of his iconic images here, no one could say that he/she thought it was a good image? If that is the case, this forum is supposed to be the antichrist to all the others with sweet talk.

I believe in free speech and if I come across an image that I think is…[Read more]

It is not as sharp as this type of image could be … what were your settings? Tripod? Lens?

It also has quite some noise. Feel that it could be cropped just a little on the bottom.

Fairly decent holiday shot – should it be more?

Only an image, nothing else, no behind the scenes-story, come on … if you want to hear more, give us sty.

Is this the best you got or just something you decided to feed to the sharks because you don’t need it any longer … why?

settings? story behind this? anything to hold on to?

where is the fashion (item)?

ok, she is a pretty young woman, but that is really all there is.

the backdrop is simply horrible.

I don’t really have any problem with any lean but that is just me. However, there is still some sensor dust, mainly in the left part of the sky. The frame has this polaroid feel to it and looks like the image had been framed for hanging. It works although I do consider it cheating a bit 😉

EDITED BY MOD – No positive comments in the shark tank!!

I think if you are really getting into these portrait shots, getting your lighting right is way more important than the crops.

You also need a solid background. If you practice on B&W first, you can use any household lamp or lamps and practice lighting. Continuous light for background or side light might be easier to use and set up. If you can…[Read more]

You need some additional light to separate his nice spiky hair from the background – rim light?

What is that coming out of his hair? One spiky thing and one fluffy, cloudy thing, and there is sth white at about 2 o’clock …

… and as Rick Sammon would say – Take the flash off the camera.

The question is why did you crop so much?

What flash? On-camera, which would explain the stronger light on his forehead …

It is yr grandson so why cut one of his ears off … looks like a shot for some commercial with that crop … I am puzzled by the crop … can we see the pre-crop version, please?

What does G1 mean?

IT’S BLURRY! The rest hardly matters …

What is that strange thing at 9 o’clock about 1 cm from the left edge?

What is that other dark debris on the beach … bottles? Unless this is a documentary style image, you should get rid of them … but then it will still be blurry, so who cares …

It also feels as if the town was sliding to the…[Read more]

High/er res version, settings, lens, please.

Doesn’t look like a true macro lens on here.

How much and what did you do in post?

It is macro-ok but not macro-wow yet … doesn’t look sharp enough for that …

My recipes for resolving a sky which is nothing but a white sheet of cloud …

1. Live and work with it regardless what others think and/or say …

2. Insert a new sky which means that you should shoot skies whenever you can and like their look … there are tutorials on the web for this … some photographers have an archive of skies,…[Read more]

Everybody nice here? You must be kidding … this is the shark tank and you are pretty much dead meat the moment you dip your big toe or any corner of your image into it … I for example try to be much meaner than in normal life where I am a mean SOB already! But welcome 🙂

I don’t know whether you adjusted these settings for this image…[Read more]

@fagopher, Thank you for your reply, explanation and feedback. I am only one voice but as you might have noticed this is still a rather small circle. I am sure that many would like to get feedback on many of their photos or perhaps even all of them but if you post 6 or more within a 24 hour period, others might lose out on feedback which I am sure…[Read more]

I don’t know … I wouldn’t give it my two thumbs up but you are the real judge … my infamous 2 cents … let it sit for a while, days, weeks, perhaps even months … come back when you feel like it and work on it with more distance and perhaps hours and hours of post-processing under your belt …

@fagopher, I find it funny that you post an image at at 7:28 am and then “no comments ? :(” at 2:20 pm. Apart from that without having counted them, I think you posted at least 5 or 6 images, many of them of mediocre quality, within the last day or so in this forum.

I feel a bit abused and will refrain from any further comments unless you slow…[Read more]

@veronikac, I am still very confused about ul-ing high-res images … unfort, I can only see the small version (500×287) version but don’t worry too much about it.

Hand signing on the side of the canvas print sounds like a good and elegant idea.

This image got something, so, if you like it leave it as it is and don’t let the sharks confuse you. If you don’t, then tell us why but don’t just lean back in some cozy chair with a cup of coffee/tea/hot cocoa or whatever waiting for the comments to flicker putting a smile on yr face ever now and then.

Nice shot of those intertwining branches … interesting pattern (what is it?) … oh, there is a bird … damn, I should have read the title, almost missed it …

another background/foreground problem but this time the bird is terribly out of focus … I would consider this image unsavable …

Sloppy crop!

Has snapshot quality and doesn’t tell me that you were serious enough/taking the necessary time…

… to shoot this image,
… to choose a good image for the shark tank,
… to tell us more about it and your intentions.