NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - Archive

[Antonio Correia]

On your Raul pic, Antonio. Do you think he can here a pulse through her sleeve?

You mean ear don't you Dave ?

The important think is that the patient is happy with the work of the man.

[Antonio Correia]

... In medical profession, no one care about those sounds you hear on the stethoscope anymore.

Alis, but that is where ? In Malaysia, Borneo ?

[Antonio Correia]

... and poor Antonio's thread turned into a medical forum.
I am sure he will be more carefull about the content of his pictures as much as with the technique. By the way, anyone with an echocardiography machine here?

All part of the game !
Echo... what ? I'm too young for that.

[Antonio Correia]

Of course it has to do with images! I was thinking of starting a thread on echo images. The machines can do color images too so it is no all black and white

Sure some nice images are generated ... Got some ?

[Colin Southern]

Dave, this is a technique doctors use when they do not want to hear the patient talking.

In medical profession, no one care about those sounds you hear on the stethoscope anymore.

Of couse the danger there is that the patient may grab the stethoscope head - tap it on the desk a couple of times - and then yell into it "it this thing working"! (for those of you who've never used one, be rest assured that they work "very well" in those circumstances!).

[Colin Southern]

Thanks, Colin! You did not have to be so harsh.

Truth hurts sometime eh?

I think you are right on. I have been abusing the camera a lot, it is always on burst mode, I bought a lot of CF cards, carry about 50 GB memory with me all the time

Thought of the moment, as an interesting exercise ...

How about grabbing yourself someting like a 500MB card and limiting yourself to that for an outing ... just to FORCE yourself to use the space wisely (although deleting in the field is perfectly acceptable).

[Alis]

Truth hurts sometime eh?



Thought of the moment, as an interesting exercise ...

How about grabbing yourself someting like a 500MB card and limiting yourself to that for an outing ... just to FORCE yourself to use the space wisely (although deleting in the field is perfectly acceptable).

Well, you probably are going to shoot me for saying this, but I use the 5D MKII for video too. You don't know the "video" side of me. So, I have all these cards mostly to have space available for HD video, but I usually cheat and borrow more and more space for the large RAW files.

[Colin Southern]

Well, you probably are going to shoot me for saying this, but I use the 5D MKII for video too. You don't know the "video" side of me. So, I have all these cards mostly to have space available for HD video, but I usually cheat and borrow more and more space for the large RAW files.

To be honest, with family related activities, I tend to do the same. #2 daughter (age 9) is going through a stage where she wants to invite friends out to do things with us, and it's always nice to take the video camera and then burn a DVD for the parents to let them know what we all got up to that day

[Susan]

This was shot in a hotel conference room with a model. I was learning to use my new Alien Bees lights. The model was soooo expressive and a delight to work with. She really GOT what I asked of her. I was pleased.



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[Susan]

This man is concentrating so hard on what he is doing. Wonderful image!

[Antonio Correia]

Thank Susan.
In fact, he is not a man but a young boy some 15 years old.
And yes he was concentrated drawing letters or text.

[Antonio Correia]

[Alis]

[Antonio Correia]

Cori 2.jpg
This was shot in a hotel conference room with a model. I was learning to use my new Alien Bees lights. The model was soooo expressive and a delight to work with. She really GOT what I asked of her. I was pleased.

Could you be so kind as to enlarge the image ?


DAVEs NOTE: Done it for you Susan.
Sorry Antonio, I missed that post yesterday

Don't be sorry. You are doing a great job.
But the best is that Susan places her photos the right way getting you free of this small work.

[Antonio Correia]

Yes Alis, he looks fine with the so small DOF and his perfectly focused eye.
Well, what do I have to say ? Nothing. I do like it. Period.

I even like the un-usual angle of the capture: "contre-plongée" style.

It doesn't work all the times though

[Alis]

Yes Alis, he looks fine with the so small DOF and his perfectly focused eye.
Well, what do I have to say ? Nothing. I do like it. Period.

I even like the un-usual angle of the capture: "contre-plongée" style.

It doesn't work all the times though

Thanks, Antonio. If there is no objection, then I will upload it to Mpix for printing!

For enlargement, I need more than one person to agree with me

About you picture, is it shot in a mine or something? Are those relics he discovered?!

[Alis]

This was shot in a hotel conference room with a model. I was learning to use my new Alien Bees lights. The model was soooo expressive and a delight to work with. She really GOT what I asked of her. I was pleased.

I think this is very nicely done, Susan. So dark yet it is so clear and sharp.

And for some I think, for some reason, if the subject smokes, the picture is a winner! That is why sometimes I thinks modern black and white portraits do not look as good as the old ones. It is so hard to find a smoker these days, at least where I live, let alone getting them to smoke on a shot!

[Dave Humphries]

~ if the subject smokes, the picture is winner! ~

Not for me I'm afraid, I find it a turn off; but I think this is part of my parents indoctrination of me not to smoke myself. It worked!
An unfortunate side effect is not being tolerant of anything to do with smoking.
Is there such a thing as smoke-ism? If so, guilty as charged m'lud.

I like to think I don't have any other "-isms" that get people into trouble!

But hey, that's just my personal view.
So don't be discouraged Susan - it is a cracking low-key shot.

[Alis]

Not for me I'm afraid, I find it a turn off; but I think this is part of my parents indoctrination of me not to smoke myself. It worked!
An unfortunate side effect is not being tolerant of anything to do with smoking.
Is there such a thing as smoke-ism? If so, guilty as charged m'lud.

I am sure that the picture of people, color or B&W, lying in bed at the hospital, with a bald head, getting chemotherapy, is not cool to anyone, so you win there!

One thing I always dream of shooting, is the picture of patients with the IV in their arms, holding their IV poles in front of the hospital (smoking area) smoking cigarettes. I think makes a very nice anti-smoking picture if is done right!

I have even seen one with an oxygen capsule (had COPD) standing in front of the hospital, smoking! Almost as if he is saying: "If I am going down, I will take all of you with me"

[Colin Southern]

I have even seen one with an oxygen capsule (had COPD) standing in front of the hospital, smoking! Almost as if he is saying: "If I am going down, I will all of you with me"

100% O2 and smoking is a VERY risky manouvere!

Ali,

To be honest, a couple of things bother me about your greyscale shot ...

1. I don't think that the greyscale conversion is optimal - to my eye it looks too contrasty (hair too dark, and a lot of the skin too light), and

2. There's an abberation on the young chap's (sorry, I don't know his name) left cheek -- looks a bit like "spider veins" (if that's the right term for it) ... would look better if they were cloned out, in my opinion.

Would be interesting to see how it looked in ACR with a little more fill light and a little less exposure.