Here’s the Photo of the Day.
Like it or not? I’d love to know, and it would be good for everyone if you told me why.
[BTW, this image is from our “OGI” file. What’s that? Well…when Scott and I are editing photos after a shoot, combing through thousands to find the select few that see the light of day, we employ a practice that I can’t recommend highly enough. That practice is to put those surprise images–the unexpected happy accidents that have merit, but maybe aren’t relevant to the job we’re editing–into a file of their own with other like-minded (bizarre, unique, etc) images. We call that file “Otherwise Gifted Images”. That’s sort of what I meant by the title of this post. It’s got a double meaning… in one sense, like this image or not, the practice of saving random, unexpected stuff to a common file, or tagging it a certain way, is a good practice. In another sense, I do want to know if you like this photo or not. I’m bias, but I love it. In fact, I took a spin through that whole file last night and fell in love all over again with about 40 photos.. I’ll be sharing more of them over time.]
hard to look at at first, but I cam back it three times. There is so much personality in that expression. At first I thought it was two pictures b/c the left side looks like a difference facial expression due to the refraction through the water.
I like how you got the sky and the underwater background to look very homogenous.
I think the house in the background is a bit distracting I want to see more definition in his hair outside the water. Pat of what hits for me is how the hair is diffuse underwater, but has real crisp lines outside. I would like it better if that was accentuated. It would also add a lot more mystery to the image as it would be harder to tell what is going on.
I like the picture but I am not sure I would want to hang it up in my house as art (the image is to invasive, part of what makes it good), would be a better commercial piece, would make a great image for a print add
1000 times better with the original orientation
I like it. I can’t explain why, but I feel this nervous energy when I try to resolve the two halves of the face. Very cool!
Love it! Made me sit up straight in my chair and lean closer to my monitor. In this day, any image on the web that gets a persons attention for more than about 10 seconds, is most likely a fairly interesting image.
I would print this LARGE and hang it for sure!
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Yes, I like this picture.
Why?
Because I know how difficult it is to do a split shot like this with the lens half in the water and half out of the water. What most probably don’t realize is just *how much* the water moves when you’re trying to do this. So most of the shots are blurry, or 1/3rd of the frame is underwater, or nothing’s underwater, etc.
Also, I’m digging the gorgeous and even light and shadows.
Well done, Sir.
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