girls at a lounge

Qarik

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Richard

These have a lot of energy. Lensbaby?

lizzard_nyc

Love #0 and #3. The first one is just fantastic, I think it's also the least posed of the bunch, or not posed at all actually.
The girls are beautiful, but look like little mannequins. They kind of have a stepford feel to them. Odd shots and I think they are great.

bfjr

lizzard_nyc wrote: »

Love #0 and #3. The first one is just fantastic, I think it's also the least posed of the bunch, or not posed at all actually.
The girls are beautiful, but look like little mannequins. They kind of have a stepford feel to them. Odd shots and I think they are great.

, I did think a couple were Mannequins

Qarik

richard, these were with a tokina 11-16mm but it was so dark that I had to lower the shutter speed on them whcih gave it the blur. The ladies were contestants in a model search..thus heavily made up. I liked #3 the best I think because of the one girl that was lookingat the camera. The "mannequin" lady must be in #4..the girl with her head twisted .. haha..yup.

I hesitated to post #5 becasue it was semi-posed but the one girl who is reaching out made the shot for me.

craig_d

I like #0; it's one of the rare slanted-horizon pictures that actually works, and as others have noted, it seems unposed and natural.

#2 is almost the best of the bunch, but I think you ought to have framed a little more to the right. The interesting part is the girl on the right who's holding something, and two girls looking at her. The fourth girl, staring off into space, makes a good counterpoint, but there's dead space on the left edge and the right and top are cropped too close. A slight change of angle might have helped too, to make the line of the couch a little more steep. Still, it draws the viewer in and involves him with these people, which is really the whole point, right?

The blur is interesting. It adds a sense of dynamism. I probably would have tried to minimize the blur by underexposing, but that might have resulted in less interesting pictures.

liflander

Re: girls at a lounge
I prefer the ones without the blur. I'm not getting that "good blur" feeling from the ones with blur.

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bdcolen

I'm going to vote for the one no one else seems to like - of course - and that would be image No. 1. That image gives me the feeling that I am actually observing something going on - the exchange/conversation between two of the young woman - and there's some sharpness to it. The tilt works for me there, as it looks as though it was required to get the shot and the composition works. It's a very nice shot. As to the others:

0 is just that - sorry - but the tilt is the only thing 'interesting' about it - it's just some women on a bench from too far away. The tilt doesn't save it.

#2 - Just allot of blur and short skirts.

#3 - Maybe, but not quite. It needs something really sharp, and some cropping, and then it might be intriguing.

#4 - Bunch a deer posing in the headlight.

So my take is that you got one really interesting, intriguing image out of five - which is a 20 percent hit ratio - which is damn good! clap