-- Peter Hughes (leo948@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000

Answers

a really fine photograph! it appears candid, it is well composed, fairly well focused and exposed; more importantly, there is tension, a little mystery, and good legs :).

wayne harrison

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), February 06, 2000.

Yeah. Like the legs. I can't say anything constructive about the exposure though, since I'm stuck on a DS laptop screen which really makes things look like crap as far as values are concerned.

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.

Sorry, try again. Washed out and flat. Not a very flattering pose. What are you trying to convey to the audience?

-- Chris Ober (caober@ev1.net), February 06, 2000.

I meant with every photograph. I can't judge values/tonal relationships very well with me screen...

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 07, 2000.

Hi Peter,

I think this image calls for black and white and zooming/cropping in. I find the section of her legs that is above the leggings very distracting. Further, the perspective (angle from which the image was shot) really needs improvement. The use of direct flash made the image flat. I would have liked to see flash from model's left and a soft bounce from camera position. Try again and let us know what happens.

-- David Hou (dna2367@hotmail.com), February 07, 2000.

BTW, if you want to shoot this in colour, a warm filter for the flash will give you more mood. Did you make the print or was it a lab print? The colour, according to my screen is very cold and muddy.

-- David Hou (dna2367@hotmail.com), February 08, 2000.

Conveying the "Mythic Self" or the "Mythic Hooker"?... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), February 08, 2000.

god awful....sorry peter but you really need to work on your eyes(composition)...you can't have this much crap in the background and keep tilting the camera.....why did you take this? can you really not see how bad it is....please seek Bunny Yeager's pics to find what sleazy means and how to pull it off(pardon the pun)...I get the premise....candid snaps... but you just don't have an artful eye. I guess there really is no teaching that. This comes as a cheapshot from a guy who doesn't post his pics....so please take it accordingly.

p.s. Peter did you really go to RIT? what did you study there? I'm not nearly as jealous as I used to be.

-- Trib (linhof6@hotmail.com), February 08, 2000.

I'm not as caustic as the guy above - but this really isn't a good photo. The backgroun is terribe - I mean the end of an upright piano of all things. Plus use black and white and try to look like you surprised her. She looks like she's stretching to go for a run in those Easy Spirit shoes.

-- stuart phillips (stuart.phillips@umb.edu), February 08, 2000.

what is RIT?

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 08, 2000.

Rochester Institute of Technology......"the big yellow school"

-- Trib (linhof6@hotmail.com), February 09, 2000.

for taxis or Big Bird? (just kiddin'...)

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 09, 2000.

Crop, crop, crop! The background distracts from the lady's nice legs! Try something like:

Cropped and equalized	Cropped, converted to grayscale and tone balance adjusted

This is just to give an idea of what I'd like. Others will probably disagree. :-) Pictures are fortunately a personal thing.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), February 16, 2000.