Laura Jo

Simply beautiful.

By: indemnity

Woodhorn Collery

Well seen! It's very effective in this crop

By: johnlw

Velvet

Lovely shot. For my taste even the applied colour was just right.

By: genebalun

Blonde Girl, Black Fur Hood

Thanks All. John
PS Did I say that Abbie is my granddaughter?

By: johnp

Old meets New

I'm sorry, but for me this represents a lost opportunity.

I made a quick screen grab and spent less than a minute in Photoshop as follows:
Edit>Transform>Perspective to get all verticals vertical
Levels adjustment to brighten and add a bit of contrast
Curves adjustment to add a bit more contrast. At this point the sky/cloud reflection positively sang
Finally, I added saturation to the foreground and the old building. Stunning photo now

Then I deleted it.

But give it a whirl.

By: HuddersfieldHil

SQUEEGEE KISSES

And I'm sure she'll love it! Well seen.

By: hobbo

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

I feel there's too much empty foreground that you could easily crop. Some work around the horses could bring out more detail and create a more interesting, vibrant image.

By: seahawk

Painted Lady

Thanks, Frink and Dudler. This was the best I could achieve with that lens as it was shot in a very tight space (the landing at her house). Any further back and I would have needed to levitate. Needed that lens to get DOF drop-off/

By: johnp

Upper Dalveen Cottage

Thanks everyone for your positive comments
John

By: johnp

Emma in White

I hate to say this, but I agree! Looks OK on the 5000 pixel high original file, but squashing it down has b******d it. I didn't check it after re-sizing.
J

By: johnp

Trwyn Du

A beautiful image! Well done. Colours to die for. What sort of exposure time did you use?

By: jeanie

Natasha #1

Sorry, folks, I uploaded the wrong photo. This is Portrait and Glamour.

(Well, we can't all be perfect all the time!)

Looks like she might have been nude, but was actually totally covered apart from her arms and shoulders.

John

By: johnp

Nikki

Lit with a studio flash / beauty dish parallel to the plane of the face. John

By: johnp

Fiona ~777

Lovely shot, very natural appearance. Personally I would have shot it on an angle with her head top left and tummy bottom right. Her forearms are pretty much at right angles anyway.
I've just tried copying your image and rotating it clockwise by about 45 degrees and to my eyes the difference was tremendous. (And yes I deleted it when I'd finished!)
John

By: Simon-Gimson

Longing

Quote: You have captured her beauty well, Send her my way she is stunning.

She lives in Yorkshire
J

By: johnp

Amy

Beautiful. Have a RC on me!

By: RobMorrisPhotography

Red Hood

Just fabulous! The colours, the crop, the pose, the model. Wow!
John

By: Hoffy

Soft in Pink

So simple, so beautiful. Just love the pose and the general "feel" of the image. Proves my point that true glamour is more about what you don't see than what you do see. Without the shrug this would have been gratuitous and tacky - covering her has raised the image to the top of the tree. Seductive with a capital S
John

By: Hoffy

The Lean

Beautiful. Colour version for me because the skin tones are warmer and softer. Could try sepia for the best of both worlds.
John

By: Hoffy

Two

A lovely looking girl, but the photo doesn't quite make it. I guess you used a flash - it's left a harsh shadow of her nose on her cheek and one of her face on her hair. Diffused flash - ideally by bouncing off a wall, ceiling, reflector, etc should soften the effect. Or use a reflector to bounce light into the shadows.
The catchlights work wonders for her eyes and "lift" the whole image, making her look radiant.
John

By: Grifoto

Seduction

Thanks, guys. To be honest I'd forgotten that the eyes hadn't been sharpened. I'll post another from the same shoot that will show how Olivia's eyes can positively smoulder!!

By: johnp

Kalla

Beautiful as many of your images are - and I have voted for some of them - I'm afraid this doesn't do it for me. I feel that central stamen is positioned wrongly. If it could be directed along the "leading" diagonal from bottom left to top right the whole dynamic of the image would be changed. Even if all you did was alter the crop you could improve it: try cropping approximately 25% off the top (just above the deep shadow and add a similar amount at the bottom if it's in your original image file.
John

By: stephenf

Lady in Red

Thanks for your comments and votes. I tried the colour pop idea with a view to uploading it, but it looked awful. So unless somebody else wants a go .....

John

By: johnp

Danube Woods

Great effect. I could see this on the wall.
John

By: thetriguy

Splashes

Lovely set of images - well done! How many shots did you have to take to get these three? And how did you light them?

Can I suggest a very quick, easy improvement? Apply a levels adjustment in Photoshop, setting the three pointers to about 0, 1.18 and 241. This will brighten the images without destroying any detail.

Well done again!

John

By: BethMN

Incomplete

Stunning!!

By: beckas

Joceline

A lovely shot but I'd remove the mark on her right shin.
John

By: dudler

ornamental II

I thought V1 was fantastic and then I saw V2
I thought V2 was fantastic and then I saw V3
Now I'm just confused and like them all best!!!
Have a vote!

PS - If the nails worry you, why not photoshop them?

John

By: beckas

Baby Blue

Congratulations - it's an exciting time for you both.
Now to the photograph ..... Sorry, but to me she looks apprehensive. Appears desperate to preserve her modesty but nevertheless please the photographer. And she looks to be floating, not kneeling on the cloth - leaves me wondering if you cut her out from another background.
John

By: rletham

Shell Beach - Kippford

Thanks for your comments.

Simon - I couldn't make a feature of the shells because they are all crushed, but I do take your point as a general principle in landscapes. Because the pieces are smooth and pretty small there isn't even decent texture in the shells. The only real feature of the shells - and it's what appealed to me in the scene - was that they were formed into these two ridges leading the eye into the scene. It was a bit of a compromise getting the eye-level right. A higher viewpoint might have given length to the ridges, but it would have revealed an uninteresting strip of empty water.

John

By: johnp