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#1 User is offline   williamkazak 

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 05:21 PM

I was working on this portrait today and I placed it on my website.It was shot in 2004 in Chicago in a high rise hotel.
The dancing pic with text is an attempt to salvage a pic that I once thought had potential.What do you think?

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 06:06 PM

I love the first one, the very shallow dept of field may be attacked by some but I love the image its a real keeper, I like to rate to 10 so I would rate it a 8, you have her sole in the photo. I can see it in her eyes. Well done!!!!

I don't like text in the second photo. sorry I just don't.
your telling me what the photo already said! its redundant.
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Posted 27 May 2006 - 07:40 PM

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I was working on this portrait today and I placed it on my website.It was shot in 2004 in Chicago in a high rise hotel.
The dancing pic with text is an attempt to salvage a pic that I once thought had potential.What do you think?

Beautiful indeed!
I'll echo Chimpers words here with one exception:
I can totally see what you'd like to do with the second picture. Yes, it's a very tender moment captured nicely. However, I think that an emotional saying would only work if you could see dad's eyes in the picture.

William, how do you relax enough during a wedding job to be able to do your thing? I get very stressed. I feel hurried and it's hard to stop and let the creativity flow . . .
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Posted 27 May 2006 - 11:24 PM

The first attempt with the portrait was to see how shallow I could get with the depth of field just to see if it would look good.I usually insist on at least F4 for a pic like that and I have not done F2.8 or less in years.I think it worked very well with this pic and I added it to my website.http://williamkazak.com
The second pic is an attempt at a wedding text effect.I am not sure what other use a text effect would have in a wedding pic but I would listen to suggestions if anyone has any to offer.
Weddings are easier for me now with Nikon autofocus lenses and the very nice Nikon SB800 flashes.Also,with the Nikon D70s I can check the pics as I shoot like a Poloroid test shot.This assures me that all of the bounce flash effects are working.
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Posted 28 May 2006 - 07:34 AM

What I appreciate most about the "preview" capability of digital is the ability to check bounce flash effectiveness! -And the histogram . . .

As far as wedding text effects, I have only seen it used a couple of times, and have used text in a wedding album only once. I recall that the text was very pretty itself, it was just a word or two splashed in the margins.

Here's an example of what I mean . . . it's a quick job, and I'd rather not use brown but . . .

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 10:04 AM

Very nice.Did you make the template yourself?
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Posted 28 May 2006 - 12:49 PM

No, it's not a template. I put it together this morning for you before I left to meet-up with Chimper. We had a fun day! . . . Just wait 'till you guys hear the story . . . Chimper Rich had quite an adventure . . . stay tuned . . .
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