Thai girl friend correct or not.

Ok a few yrs ago a Thai girl and I hooked up, her asking for money broke that up. But I got some ok shots. Thoughts and CC appreciated.

Taken with auto.

On the girlfriend or photo Scott?

And the last.

Bangkok? :highly_amused:

Haha close, but thoughts on the photos?

Was there some fill flash on those or just color corrected in post? The first one is a little overexposed and heavy on the contrast.

Very impressive - you got an unusual color set, thanks to the extremes in the color gamut/contrast area. Very interesting (effective) results. It especially goes for the first and the second photos (the girl in a close up, and you with her together). So, this is an example of how the "classic" (traditional) rules can be "overridden" by "expanding your creativity beyond the limits". There is only one formal objection about the second photo: you should try to remove those traces of the shadow in the lower left corner.
That being said, the third photo is somewhat "ordinary", so it somehow falls out of the set...

Scott Murray said:

Ok a few yrs ago a Thai girl and I hooked up, her asking for money broke that up. But I got some ok shots. Thoughts and CC appreciated.

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I would have liked the background either erased, or have been further down. Its a little distracting, as not really part of the image.

The background (green hill with the forest) could be blurred, slightly, it should not be erased, since, as it seems to me Scott's intention was to create a sort of "the girl at a surrealistic seaside", not just a girl (alone) - that would be a point of making the photo so "contrasty". On the other hand, the second photo should get rid of that shadow, to make the same effect - kind of "two people half levitating, half standing" on the beach...

Unfortunately for me they all look like they were taken with a Kodak disposable. Color is flat and the first one overexposed. Sorry Scott.

Well, hmmmm...

*ponders*

I guess I'd be lying if I didn't say I've come to expect better shots from you than these.

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Just an example of what could be done to compensate for the extreme contrast and overexposure (in addition to color editing):
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/8/Ps/38aV8Drd/61257d1386001400-thai-gi.jpg

Looking at these pictures, the most obvious fault to me is the excessively-busy, distracting backgrounds.

There's an app for Android-based devices which is excellent for blurring out such backgrounds, and looking at these pictures, it occurred to me that they were the sort that would greatly benefit from applying this app.

Alas, this app isn't up to working on DSLR-sized images; and on my device, at least, it imposes a limit of 2048 pixels on the longest dimension.

The app is AfterFocus Pro

Here's what I got when I ran your three pictures rather hastily through it. With more fiddling, better results are likely.

Thanks for the feed back, I dont like the shots personally and was only experimenting

Interesting that you asked for opinions on shots that now you admit to not liking... why not just trash them...?

ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME...If you give me $$$$$:drunk:
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mguffin said:

Interesting that you asked for opinions on shots that now you admit to not liking... why not just trash them...?

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Ime sure Scott can answer but i think he was trying to encourage others to put pictures up for critique

mikew said:

Ime sure Scott can answer but i think he was trying to encourage others to put pictures up for critique

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Fair enough... I was just reading along... ;-)