Nice! My era!

Like. My stock tank is too old and doesn't hold water so when it warms it is going to take at least one whole tube of caulk--been meaning to do that for two summers but never got around to it. Not much else to do right now! Stuck here in place, vacation plans scrapped, garden suppliers won't sell plants etc, etc. But, hey, still healthy.

ooooops hit the send twice, Sorry.

Super.l The space under her looked to me like a jigsaw puzzle piece on first glance laying on top of her image. I think because I wasn't fully awake. Love the idea and the result.

Super.l The space under her looked to me like a jigsaw puzzle piece on first glance laying on top of her image. I think because I wasn't fully awake. Love the idea and the result.

Yes but now how to get it OFF the monitor?!! Actually it was supposed to say "film people" but film somehow didn't appear. In my dotage I never know if my fingers will say what my mind it thinking. Probably best I stop posting before I end up insulting the whole world!

Anyone of you former (or present) people ever try too soften that sharp, sharp image by smearing a tiny dab of Vaseline on a clear glass filter? (Works!)

I like it! Just my personal opinion--women are soft (and I like that) so sometimes soft focus works better than "tack sharp." We used to (show my age) search for the "sharpest" lens we could find but now we have to search for a "softer" one and can only find it with a keyboard and a mouse!

Great job! the body is not out of focus--it is moving--and the whole image is about movement. I like it!

Nicely done! I like that you have taken a successful setting and used it with both different techniques and different models. My kind of thinking! (And NIC is my "go to" for B&W!)

Lovely. I know people talk about "tack sharp" but I think sometimes that is a distraction from the mood or intention in this genre.

Great image. I was about to post some of the same sort (with a moon) but now I am reluctant. Yours is too nice.

[quote=mackie]Great pictures. How did you achieve a near perfect black background? What were your camera settings? Questions from an amateur/beginner. Thanks.
The background was painted over a pebbled surface with black stage paint (Rosco) which gives a black with almost no light reflection. Light with strob and f-stop with incident meter.

Straight out of the camera so blame the engineer who set up the internal conversion from RAW to JPG. A lot of talk here about someones personal vision of color balance--forgetting I guess the vagrancies of monitors--use the same adjust equipment on two different brands-side by side- and your eyes can see a difference when you see "done." Brightness should not change the balance but depending on make and model it does. Many check UHH on their phone--big difference from a monitor. What looks good to one person--the computer engineer who set the camera model--looks horrible to me. Composition "rules" are really composition "suggestions." But they do have validities, greater artists than even you--Rembrandt, Michelangelo or DaVinci--used them and their works still stand.

Nicely done--it is all about placement and you nailed it.