Lukas Werth

This picture might be very good if it had some details in the ground. Again an infrared conversion?

LukasCheck It Out

In the first picture the sky for me was highly disturbing and had an artificial look, in the second it is much better, to an extend that you might try the frame of the first picture (low horizon) with the sky of the second – if you are able to tweak the contrast in the sky somewhat.

LukasCheck It Out

I like the second version better. Perhaps push up the contrast in the foreground.

LukasCheck It Out

Tripling the exposure would induce star trails – many like them, but it is not what you see.

I don’t know the ISO capability of your camera, but I suggest 3200 ASA – that might also produce more stars in a clear night without much optical pollution (starlight images in these days sometimes produce more super-bright stars than the eye…[Read more]

I am sorry, but I do not like this picture. Blurred vegetation in the foreground induces disorder and a feeling of incapacity (“this was the only position I could manage…”), no sense of depth, no majesty, as it is certainly present there. The first rock emerging out of nowhere, the second one hardly to be discerned in front of the third, clor…[Read more]

Nice romantic picture of a nice romantic valley – makes me want to visit this Cistercian monastery if this is what it is – and this is not my normal reaction to a picture.
There is something to the colors, however, which I also notice – selective saturation of the lavender while other parts are less saturated – like the wooded hills which also…[Read more]

Are those black figures real people or is this some form of monument? Is this a vertical panorama shot, or why this narrow rectangle? Did you have to exclude unwanted features at the side?

Anyway, I’d say way too much foreground and too dark ad undifferentiated. My advice: cut the foreground perhaps to the upper part of the paved path where it…[Read more]

“Of course, these situations could be avoided by travelling with a complete studio lighting set up in your case… :-)”

Gordon,
no they couldn’t 😉

Studio lighting for me would be likely to be like using a water gun to fill up your aquarium: it would destroy what is there already.

But thanks for your comments: it goes to show how many d…[Read more]

I like the picture’s composition: the ration of floor and wall, the one woman standing further behind than the others.
What this picture wants is enhanced local contrast. As it is, it looks somewhat flat to me, and think this can be remedied: for one thing, I would want to enhance the reflections of the people (their legs, mostly) on the floor,…[Read more]

@admin, thanks for your comment.
To my eye the face has retained all detail. But his may be also a problem of the small reproduction size.

On a more general note, I am wary of abundant flash use: I often like drama in faces, and portraits done with a copious amount of lighting done by the book often look exquisitely boring to me.

LukasCheck It Out

My pleasure, and I think the picture shows much better now.

LukasCheck It Out

Perhaps it is how the image is rendered on my screen, but for me the highlights are blown. The picture deserves much more differentiation here: the pebbles/sand in the background appear all white to me, with the shank of the person on the right not getting differentiated from the background, same for the cap of the woman in the middle, the…[Read more]

Same here. Somewhat less sky, and I would also reduce the orange tinge of the sunset, that would induce more blues the upper areas of the sky, and also reduce the orange hue of the dry grass in the front.

What I don’t really see in the small version of the image file available here is how far the area of reasonably sharp focus extends from the…[Read more]

pressing mustard oil.jpg by Lukas Werth on Light Stalking

I know, no wilderness…

LukasCheck It Out

I guess I am reading this post somewhat late, but I am also ready to help.

One proposal which popped up: why not give a possibility to click on uploaded pictures to see enlarged versions?

LukasCheck It Out

I am sorry, but I can’t see any picture here.

LukasCheck It Out

Claudia,
thank you for your comments. They are really helpful and make me think. You are right, of course, more explanations would be helpful.

The reason I have not given any is first of all that I was hoping to get thoughts about the picture itself, how it gets communicated just by itself.

And I want my images to be received by people…[Read more]

Somewhat belatedly, a picture I took recently:

preparing the feast.jpg by Lukas Werth on Light Stalking

LukasCheck It Out