Recent content by lexidium

Well thought out. :D

Nice. Reminds me of Ansel.

Really nice. Chiaroscuro is just right

Lowry is alive and well . . . . .

Ditto

Not skin colour. Just one or two blemishes and marks

The perpendicular position of the camera (in portraits) should depend on whether it's a head shot, a head and shoulders or a full length shot and - to a degree - how far away your are from the subject. Each one requires a different height and not what's convenient for the photographer: i.e...

Nice portrait but it seems as if the camera wasn't perpendicular when you took the shot. It looks as though she's looking up at you which makes it look slightly odd. A nice overall idea though.

Good picture of a lovely girl. I would have done some very light work on the skin though.

You don't really need an i7 processor for photoshop but you do need plenty of ram and a decent graphics card. Forget stuff used for gaming! You only need two fans in a case: one to blow the air in at the front and one to take it out at the back. Having umpteen fans is a waste of time.

In the UK

I haven't a clue who she was. She was standing there as if waiting for somebody. I was a distance away and I looked at her and she looked at me. I raised my camera and nodded my head as if to say can I take your photo. She sat and posed; I took a quick pic; we smiled at each other and I got into...

The hi-lighting is very good. You've kept it just on the borders. I think I would have bracketed the shot to make sure that the jacket was sharp as well ( in post) I believe in the old way that when taking a head and shoulders portrait, the camera should be perpendicular to the philtrum and not...