Things are getting better with my scanner. Here are some new scan's:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=426947

and select portraits. In street I have new 'spreading the word''

Critique is appreciated, also on other pic's

regards Reinier

-- ReinierV (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), April 16, 2002

Answers

"silvia 2" is my favorite of those type of shots. the tilt in head, the angle that you catch her eye is interesting and worth exploring some more. i like symmetry or deliberate asymmetry you could play with that. the "berdine 7" could have benifited by more attention to symmetry (the skin showing from her shoulders), but i don't find it too interesting anyway.

thanks for showing

-- john molloy (ballyscanlon@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.

Click here to see Reinier's photos

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), April 16, 2002.

Well, I liked the Cat in Graveyard and Haigia Sofia ceiling especially. That 135 f/2.8 comes in handy for you! Maybe I'll get the urge to buy one used. Nice photos and thanks for sharing.

-- James (snodoggydogg@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.

Agree with John. "Silvia 2" does it for because it is moer of a mystery as to her identity. She looks attractive without giving too much away. These are pretty simple shots, with honestly not much more to say but....

...Great effort

-- Kristian (leicashot@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.

Hi, Reinier:

Sorry I did the link to your photos but said nothig about them. Let me fix my fault: I like Nbr. 2, too. I think it is the one with the best light in the set you brought this time (IMHO, at least) and the one with the best graphical qualities, too: simple subject, helpful composition.

My suggestion: try to get more spontaneous shots; they often say more about the subject and slight errors are more easily forgiven than in a formal situation. In fact, were it not by the flower, my favourite would have been Silvia 4 but the flower is a graphical item that has nothing to add to your central subject and, in fact, competes by the viewer's attention; furthermore it makes the overall composition an almost balanced one (imagine the flower right at the same level that Silvia's eyes for a fully balanced situation) and takes away the dynamic that the line of Silvia's hair contributes. Try mentally taking the flower away from the picture and keep the framing and everything else just the way it is: I did it and found that the photo turns into a more powerful graphical statement and Silvia's half stare to the camera makes a lot of sense. In summary, the ilustration turns into photography (too presumptuos a statement, perhaps; it's only that I don't see any other easy way to say it...)

My 2 cents. Excuse the lenght, Reinier. Keep posting, please.

BTW: I just saw your other folders and felt kind of stupid trying to give you any advise when I saw your Istambul photos: several of them are simply great photos and make most of mine look right what they are: an apprentice's.

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), April 18, 2002.