More Photos by Molly

[mollyduker]

I hadn't posted anything in a while, so I thought I would see what you guys thought of this picture. Its from the Garden of the Gods outside of Colo. Springs.


Any comments, crits, advice etc would be appreciated! Thanks!

[angel-roh]

wow it looks like a painting... hehe where did you take this picture at? the clouds look like it's about to rain hehe. hmm the angle looks too close. but at least it looks ok hehe.

[mollyduker]

one more...

[squirpy]

I really like this one.

The only things I think would really make it better are if the petal coming out towards the front was sharper, and if the flower was looking into the picture rather than out of it (but that's kind of personal preference)

[mollyduker]

Angel-roh- it was taken in Colorado... a really pretty park place with all these cool rock formations
Em- do you mean like if the flower was facing out? so like you could sdee the inside or what?
Thanks for the responses!
One new pic:
Hands

[Lauren Short]

hands is a very nice picture. has a great mood to it and it technically well done, nice focal point

the flow picture i would like to see a bit more intense color of yellow but i know pictures don't always have to be that way so it really more of a suggestion than a crit. composition-wise i really like it, very nice how the snow rests atop the flower, almost as spring is battling it out with winter actually looking at it a little closer it's a bit too blue i think, although the blue tint gives a nice cool sense especially with the snow, i think it kills a bit of the color contrast.

your first post is very nice, i'd just like to see a bit more contrast as it is hard to distinguish certain areas from one another.



please post some more, really good stuff so far

[mollyduker]

Thanks Injection-- thats really helpful... I agree about the garden of the gods (rock picsture thingy) and thx for the crit on the flower.... very helpful
One more:
cellist


(i apologize-- looking now i see there was a dog hair on the pic when i scanned)

[squirpy]

I like both of your latest a lot. I like the cellist one because the fingers are blurred in motion, and the face is clear and still.

I like the hands one as well. It'd be a lot more boring without the ring, something to think about, I guess.

[mollyduker]

Thx em... I have to agree with what you said (both the ring comment and the blurred hands comment)...

[morf]

the cellist pic is very good! well they all are, but the cellist has something special

-morf

[Sems]

wow these are great!

[bfly]

my fave is also the cellist photo. I do like the hands shot as well. I think because both have a feel of strong concentration to them. Maybe the black and white. Maybe the hands as a theme. ..all of the above actually. Either way, keep em coming!.. Oh.. one thing.. I'd clean up the specs on the image of the hands. Your work is nice and the dust detracts a bit. hey, also, did you post a pic of your pup a while back? A golden retriever? Am I hallucinating? where is that? must have been a different thread?

[mollyduker]

thanks! vanessa- yea i posted a picture of my dog a while back on a different thread... and the specs are from dust on our scanner, something i feel like i am perpetually fighting and never goes away...
any body got any ideas for that?
thanks for the replies!

[mollyduker]

Ok now that it worked...

Here are some recent ones. Don't feel they are my best. Any suggestions? C and C is welcome (like always). Thank you kindly.

A bolt

A tree through the window of an abandonned fort

Boston from Boston Harbor

Penguins! (sorta goes with the hand theme eh?)


Thanks for looking!
-Mollyduker

[mollyduker]

anybody?

[Banshax]

"A tree through the window of an abandonned fort"

I Like it, simple as that. Composition is rather square, the tree breaks it nicely, and the contrast isn't bad either. The frame thing with natural frames in scenes might be cliche but it works. Looks cool.

Did i mention the colors?

[madplanet]

Molly, nice photos. In the Garden Of The Gods, is that by the Cave of the Winds? I was born on CO, but moved when I was a year old and we went there when I was a teenager. It looks very familiar.

I've always liked taking snapshots through windows and I guess it is cliched, but your picture is nicely done.

My favorite is Boston Harbor. Really nice. The focus on the water is intense, right in the viewers face.

I didn't really like the one with the bolt, but probably because of the subject matter. But, then again, it's the small details that matter sometimes.

Thanks for sharing.

[Wolfykins]

Hey Molly.

Okay, your first image, the landscape. It's a great image, but there's nothing really going on in the sky above. Maybe crop it a little closer?

The frosted flower is very sharp! I would love to see it taken from the front of the flower or at some other angles.

Your hand pics are nice, but I personally find that the blurred takes away from the images, especially in the first one.

The bolt picture could be sharpened some, I think. But I love the angle you took that at! Have you tried converting it to black and white?

The tree through the window is stunning. *thumbs up*

Awesome work, keep shooting and sharing!

[mollyduker]

Thanks for the comments
Madplanet- Garden of the Gods is right outside of Colo. Springs, I believe that is Pike's Peak in the background. Cave of teh Winds sounds familiar but I have spent alot of time in CO but dont' know it well enough (i'm from Missouri) to say for sure.

[squirpy]

Your hand pics are nice, but I personally find that the blurred takes away from the images, especially in the first one.

The bolt picture could be sharpened some, I think. But I love the angle you took that at! Have you tried converting it to black and white?

I have to say, I disagree with you on that. I think the blurring adds to it because it makes it feel much closer - it's so concentrated on one element of the picture.
And in the cellist one, it shows movement while everything else is still.

I think the boston from boston harbor one is my favorite of the boston pics. I like how the skyline is repeated with the people and dock at the bottom.

I don't like the penguin one that much because there isn't really a sense of... I don't know... focus? It's hard to read. I think it doesn't help that the rock is so busy and bright and the penguins are blurred.

[modern]

hey, i really like the tree in the window and the cellist. Keep them coming.

gar

[Bill Beaton]

That Boston Harbour picture is very painterly. My favourite

[mollyduker]

Thanks for the replies. I'm thinking I'm gonna get a new lens, a more versitile lens for my 20 year old camera. Yea, its 3 years older than me Anybody have any ideas for a manual focus, more verstile lens, for a pentax?

Em- yea, the penguins didn't turn out so well I think that aquirums should be better lit. (And I think I should learn how to spell that word )

Hopefully I'll have more later

... aquarium...

[Wolfykins]

I have a 200mm telephoto lens for my Pentax. Works as good as any 80-200mm can. And Pentax supposedly makes their lenses so that they will work on any Pentax camera, I believe.

[mollyduker]

I believe you are right about the any camera thing... The only problem is my camera doesn't have auto-focus. Not sure if it did at one time or not. I looked at a lens at the camera store the other day but it won't work because of the auto-focus thing. I have a telephoto lens already (70-200) but I want something more versatile so I don't always have to be changing lenses btwn my telephoto and my regular. Thanks O, and preferably no more than about $200-250

[squirpy]

aquirums

:smacks forehead:
how did you ever pass english?

[mollyduker]

:smacks forehead:
how did you ever pass english?

Well, I read some books, I wrote some papers, I did some presentations...

O, and I used some spell-check

[mollyduker]

Here are some pics I tried to post last week and I was told they didn't work. And some new pics. I hope you like. Please comment. Especially critique. Thanks.

Striped Squirrel


Beauty at the Beach


Hermit the Crab


Fountain in San Francisco


A guy at SF MOMA


Some Kayakers at the Beach in Washington State


Looking down on people


A woman through a window


A skylight


Stairs


The Sun and Ships


Sorry there were so many! Please comment and PLEASE critique. Thanks again!
-Mollyduker

[mollyduker]

anybody? any thoughts at all are welcome

[Wizard]

i like most of your pictures. specially the one that looks through window into a tree. and a yellow flower covered in ice.