The directors choice, a photo from Ostfold, South

Photographer's Note

There were a lot of amateur actors following the director’s presentation before the outdoor summer performance – so I made the choice to introduce you too this young actress, not least for the fine light effect from the sun shining trough some trees in the foreground.

Hope you like this shot of the young girl – soon to become an actress in the play from the old medieval town inside the fortress of Fredrikstad, south of Oslo.
(Other pixes presented yesterday and the day before.)

Tech:
Nikon D70
2004/07/11
JPEG (8-bit) Normal
Image Size: Large (3008 x 2000) (Cropped/resized)
Lens: 70-300mm F/4-5.6 G
Focal Length: 300mm
Exposure Mode: Shutter Priority
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
1/320 sec - F/10
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 400 (No tripod = Higher ISO)
Optimize Image: Soft

DonQ, manny, carper, avis2avis, orme, jhonny_blue, jhm, bertolucci, hispic, Kenny10pin, nwoehnl, Burnham, avigur_11, Dinyar has marked this note useful

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Tibetix (0) 2004-07-14 3:14

Very nice picture... And my favorite :)

DonQ (2625) 2004-07-14 3:17

Yeah, only what I can say it is: - I like it, very much! ;-)

manny (21833) 2004-07-14 3:47

You are getting more at ease with your D70. This is a nice shot. IMHO, a tighter compo would work better. But that's just me.

carper (96) 2004-07-14 3:51

Very good one Jack,
Nice photo in a nice serie, good composition, great colours, very good job you did here.

orme (7205) 2004-07-14 4:27

A beautiful portrait shot, Jack. I like the warm colours and her casual expression. Well captured. Good DOF.

jhonny_blue (4956) 2004-07-14 5:05

Beautiful picture, but you need use flash in this situations to clear the face of the woman, it´s be better... anyway a good composition ! :)

Piotr (0) 2004-07-14 6:08

Casual portrait, good composed, well done Jack!

jhm (112152) 2004-07-14 6:15

Beautiful portrait Jack, excellent colours, a splendid work!

DanTe (575) 2004-07-14 6:34

Very good portrait. It's like this young girls is playing with the light.

bertolucci (12825) 2004-07-14 7:44

Very fine capture of this beautiful young women, Jack. Angle, DoF and lightplay are excellent and you'er captured her expression very well. Fine job!

Kenny10pin (19301) 2004-07-14 9:36

great shot, I like the dof here and the portrait type shot, very well done, the natural pose is very good

Rockyboy (20596) 2004-07-14 14:37

This one is really nice, Jack! You captured very well the expression of this girl and the colors are well exposed. Bravo!

nwoehnl (122) 2004-07-14 14:47

Great portrait of this lovely lady, Jack. Nice posing resulting in this semi-profile kind of angle, fine colors supported by the play of sunlight, and good DOF. Very good this capture.

Burnham (2428) 2004-07-14 16:53

Well good choice presenting this girl to us, she is very pretty and has that natural beauty going for her ;o) I've enjoyed this eries very much and this portrait is as interesting as the others. Exellent work.

avigur_11 (21735) 2004-07-14 22:52

A very good portrait, Jack, you almost fooled me to think that it's oene of Claude's. You did an excellent light/contrast job here. Very well done.

yesterday (9833) 2004-07-15 4:05

Beautiful girl, A beautiful portrait, great light and contrast, good color to.

Regards Kaj Nielsen

mikhalych (1311) 2004-07-15 4:16

Nice portrait of a pretty person, Jack.
Of course, I would prefer more light on girl's face, but in that case she might get lost on brightly lit background.

One more advice - you don't need such small aperture whet shooting portraits. F/5.6 will be more than enough, and in this case you can lower ISO number = less noise.

cdewet (0) 2004-07-15 14:14

Jack
One very classy lady, nice pose and the exposure for the skin colour very good for a dark-skinned person. Well done!

snsk (794) 2004-07-17 18:01

Really a very nice portraite, i like the contrast colors, very nice composition and sharp picture. very natural.
weldone.
regards.

larsesp1 (0) 2004-07-18 11:21

Seems like that 70-300 lens isn't able to do the job here. A very unsharp fokus and blured red color sweather. Nice girl though (but I guess we shouldn't credit the fotographer for her).
-LEH-