I concur. The first two would have been better if the performers were not blurred as much. The first of the second set is awesome...too bad it wasn't shot on a high ISOB&W film. It's too smooth for me.

thanks,
the first two were taken by using light painting methods
i was trying to portray the soul-ful-ness of the performers
if i was to capture the stillness, the whole performance would not have been lit such way
during the 30sec exposure i took the external flash and use the pilot pre fire feature and let the flash illuminate the scene with various angles.
that's why the lighting is so bright :D (it was a dark performance)

^^^ Nice technique!

oo nice, how did you go about doing light painting methods? is that what you meant by using the flash at various angles?

more details on that technique!

sounds awsome...

best shot are the drum sticks in the air!!

(thats it i'm goin to kfc)

Pretty much he set it on a 30 second exposure, took his flash, and fired his flash manually from diffrent angles. The camera sees this and freezes the picture. Because it was pitch dark, thats all the camera sees.

Majin: For black and white conversions, add a color balance adjustments layer on top of everything, check monochromatic, and play around with the sliders. IMO that's the best way to do it.

Lee: I can't find monochromatic. But I fondled it a bit and found something I like.

^lmao

I think you mean fiddled with it a bit, fondling is what you do with Tomasz

:lol :lol

This is the Photography Lab forum. I think you want the Relaionships & Gender forum. Haha...

HAHHAHAHA

yes this is pretty much what i did :D
but i just got very lucky on the exposure though!
looks great with automotive photoshoot
but will need a nice diffuser or a softbox..:D
thanks for all your guy's input!

This page is the lol.

Hey, you started it with your homoerotic fantasies! :D

I couldn't resist. The black and white was making me horndy.

Que in awkward silence.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...stler2-red.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...monochrome.jpg

Did what gopher said to both of these

Mike says there too flat though :(

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../whistler3.jpg

The new addition to the family:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/PICT3821.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/PICT3824.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/PICT3869.jpg

Your child senna?

If so congrats!!!!

Ooops. Haha...forgot to write.... That's my cousin's baby. Her name is Ella. She is SO DAMN ADORABLE!!! Look at that cute button nose...aww....

I don't have any kids....err, none that I'm aware of!

That's totally not the effect I was looking for, however I guess this time I cant blame you. When I said color balance, I meant channel mixer.

I did use channel mixer for the last one.

Actually if I post up the original can anyone fix it for me?

Go for it.

^ do you bump of the contrast like crazy on all your pics?