The eighth roommate

[ShooterJ]

Images showed up for me today. Nice work as usual Dan... I'd say you definitely kept your style, and I like the adjustments in these.

Nice work man.

 

[DanOstergren]

#2 and #3 are completely fantastic.

Not a lot of visual pop in either, but you've managed the whole frame very very well. #2 looks like a movie still, and is a terrific horizontal portrait. #3 is just a really great classical composition. Great diagonal line in the model, you got the shoes popping, you got the little cluster of leaves upper right, you got a little visual interest inside the culvert lower left. It looks more "fashiony" than #2, but it's not fashion, it's something else.

I'm starting to really like your color palette, somehow it fits with Alaska and Ketchikan for me. Cool and moist.

Thank you!
I'm trying to keep it simple lately with my portraits, both with the content in them as well as the editing. I want them to look organic and natural, and Alaska is the perfect place for that.
It's funny you point that out about the colors. When I first started photographing people I would always go for very warm tones, but I really try to keep away from them for the most part now. Funny how our style grow and change as we do.

I started photographing people about 1966... in West Texas, where everybody was either red or brown... no pale corpse looking types around, except for the occasional junkie passing through. We didn't have many punkers, goth didn't exist yet, most of us had never heard of drag queens... and the the only pale skin you saw was when you were in the backseat of your car with your girlfriend on a Saturday night, at the local drive in! Things have changed a little since then.. but I guess maybe you can understand why I like warm tones.

I see it as a simple difference in personal taste. For my photos I just don't like too much red tone in skin.

 

[runnah]

I started photographing people about 1966... in West Texas, where everybody was either red or brown... no pale corpse looking types around, except for the occasional junkie passing through. We didn't have many punkers, goth didn't exist yet, most of us had never heard of drag queens... and the the only pale skin you saw was when you were in the backseat of your car with your girlfriend on a Saturday night, at the local drive in! Things have changed a little since then.. but I guess maybe you can understand why I like warm tones.

(sing along to Folsom Prison Blues)

I started making pictures back in '66
I found an early passion for taking pics

In west Texas I could be found
a place where one was red or brown

Weren't no goths or punkies
just an occasional pale junkie

Ain't no drag queens or things in between
Just in the backseat of my Chevy Biscayne

Yeah I love those warm tones baby, those warm tones drive me wild.

 

[kundalini]

The exception I'll make on amolitor's critique for #3 is...... if it bends, bend it. The straight left arm looks dead. A 15-45° bend at the elbow would make a significant difference IMO.

On second thought, a slight turn of the shoulders would make the elbow bend look more natural.

 

[DanOstergren]

I started photographing people about 1966... in West Texas, where everybody was either red or brown... no pale corpse looking types around, except for the occasional junkie passing through. We didn't have many punkers, goth didn't exist yet, most of us had never heard of drag queens... and the the only pale skin you saw was when you were in the backseat of your car with your girlfriend on a Saturday night, at the local drive in! Things have changed a little since then.. but I guess maybe you can understand why I like warm tones.

(sing along to Folsom Prison Blues)

I started making pictures back in '66
I found an early passion for taking pics

In west Texas I could be found
a place where one was red or brown

Weren't no goths or punkies
just an occasional pale junkie

Ain't no drag queens or things in between
Just in the backseat of my Chevy Biscayne

Yeah I love those warm tones baby, those warm tones drive me wild.

Oh you!

 

[kathyt]

I really like #1. I would really like #2, but I feel that the loss of the arm kinda threw me for a loop. I think #3 is just missing The "wow" factor. Maybe if you added the suspenders and changed the composition a bit. I wish you would have positioned him in he center of the silver drain thing. That would have been really cool and added some depth.

 

[cgipson1]

I started photographing people about 1966... in West Texas, where everybody was either red or brown... no pale corpse looking types around, except for the occasional junkie passing through. We didn't have many punkers, goth didn't exist yet, most of us had never heard of drag queens... and the the only pale skin you saw was when you were in the backseat of your car with your girlfriend on a Saturday night, at the local drive in! Things have changed a little since then.. but I guess maybe you can understand why I like warm tones.

(sing along to Folsom Prison Blues)

I started making pictures back in '66
I found an early passion for taking pics

In west Texas I could be found
a place where one was red or brown

Weren't no goths or punkies
just an occasional pale junkie

Ain't no drag queens or things in between
Just in the backseat of my Chevy Biscayne

Yeah I love those warm tones baby, those warm tones drive me wild.

Runnah,

Your idiocy is indeed, engaging! lol!

And the "Red and Brown" comments are pointed at different skin types.. some tan, some turn red (me)! Not necessarily any reference to race or culture. Just in case someone goes there... lol!

 

[squirrels]

I started photographing people about 1966... in West Texas, where everybody was either red or brown... no pale corpse looking types around, except for the occasional junkie passing through. We didn't have many punkers, goth didn't exist yet, most of us had never heard of drag queens... and the the only pale skin you saw was when you were in the backseat of your car with your girlfriend on a Saturday night, at the local drive in! Things have changed a little since then.. but I guess maybe you can understand why I like warm tones.

(sing along to Folsom Prison Blues)

I started making pictures back in '66
I found an early passion for taking pics

In west Texas I could be found
a place where one was red or brown

Weren't no goths or punkies
just an occasional pale junkie

Ain't no drag queens or things in between
Just in the backseat of my Chevy Biscayne

Yeah I love those warm tones baby, those warm tones drive me wild.

Runnah,

Your idiocy is indeed, engaging! lol!

And the "Red and Brown" comments are pointed at different skin types.. some tan, some turn red (me)! Not necessarily any reference to race or culture. Just in case someone goes there... lol!

Can someone please add a "I shot a man in Reno" photography reference so I can to a "Task Manager" "Stop Process" on the neurons now devoted to this?

 

[ShooterJ]

When runnah and cgipson get involved it's interesting .. I think they should start a morning radio show. I'd tune in. Lol

 

[runnah]

When runnah and cgipson get involved it's interesting .. I think they should start a morning radio show. I'd tune in. Lol

You're listening r-dog and the c-word on 101.5 the Bone.

 

[cgipson1]

(sing along to Folsom Prison Blues)

I started making pictures back in '66
I found an early passion for taking pics

In west Texas I could be found
a place where one was red or brown

Weren't no goths or punkies
just an occasional pale junkie

Ain't no drag queens or things in between
Just in the backseat of my Chevy Biscayne

Yeah I love those warm tones baby, those warm tones drive me wild.

Runnah,

Your idiocy is indeed, engaging! lol!

And the "Red and Brown" comments are pointed at different skin types.. some tan, some turn red (me)! Not necessarily any reference to race or culture. Just in case someone goes there... lol!

Can someone please add a "I shot a man in Reno" photography reference so I can to a "Task Manager" "Stop Process" on the neurons now devoted to this?

But it wasn't Reno.. it was old San Antone....

 

[sashbar]

I like them all, quite good. I would have trimmed that top strip of white sky in No 1 though.

 

[pic_chick]

These are way better then any of my people pic!! I really like them! One tiny little nit pick I would have flipped his watch so the face was showing and not the buckle

 

[frommrstomommy]

I have got to ask.. how did the conversation go exactly when you were enlisting him to take a walk n pose shirtless for you minutes after he moved in?

 

[ShooterJ]

I have got to ask.. how did the conversation go exactly when you were enlisting him to take a walk n pose shirtless for you minutes after he moved in?

Yes, do tell.