Kendra's Photos Updated 1-21!

[KendraJ.K.]

just wanted to share some of my work and get some comments and critiques on it :)

all pictures were taken with my Nikon D70s with a 18-70mm Nikkor lens and a few were using my macro filters

1-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/studio/1-28-070442.jpg

2-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/studio/1-28-070152.jpg

3-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/studio/1-13-070542.jpg

4-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/Landscapes/homecomingand10-2-060462.jpg

5-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/Landscapes/11-26-060632.jpg

6-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/Landscapes/11-26-060542.jpg

7-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/Landscapes/1-16-070962.jpg

8-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/Landscapes/1-16-070952.jpg

9-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/Landscapes/1-16-070102.jpg

10-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/Landscapes/1-16-070482.jpg

[KendraJ.K.]

11-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/self%20portraits/12-1-060582.jpg

12-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-19-070042-1.jpg

13-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-19-070662.jpg

14-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-19-070012.jpg

15-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-28-071002.jpg

16-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/9-22-060672-1.jpg

17-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/10-8-060402-2.jpg

18-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-28-071202.jpg

19-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/10-12-062912-1.jpg

20-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/10-21-062002-2.jpg

[KendraJ.K.]

last ones for now :)

21-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/macros/10-21-060832-1.jpg

22-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/macros/11-15-061352-1.jpg

23-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/macros/11-22-060542-1.jpg

24-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/macros/11-30-06and12-1-060162-1.jpg

25-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/macros/12-1-062522-1.jpg

26-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-15-060582-1.jpg

27-

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/11-22-060252-1.jpg

28-this last one i shot in RAW which i usually dont do. i edited it with adobe lightroom. i know the whites are as bright as they should be or as bright as the whiles in other pictures. but when i tried to go back and lighten it a bit more i didnt like the way it looked. so other then that i would yreally appreciate comments on this one
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/DSC_0168-Edit2.jpg

[KendraJ.K.]

23 views and no comments? :(

[eazym]

Many of these are really quite nice. I wish 2 had a less shalow DoF -- I want to see the plug in focus. I think if you're going for that clean, modern look it would work better. 4: Great lines, but I don't like the crop. 5 is gorgeous. 9 also looks great, like one of those Japanese post cards. 19: nice pic, and I promise not to make any jokes about a pearl necklace...tee-hee-hee. Can't see 21-25.

[KendraJ.K.]

thanks :)

for number 2 it was kind of hard not to really...since i was using my lightbox and wanted a certian angle on it but i see what you mean :)
4- what dont you like about the crop? how do you think it could have been better?
19- i dont get it lol why are there jokes about pearl necklaces?? and besides thats not even a pearl necklaces :P lol its plastic

can you see 21-25 now???

thanks agian :)

[PygmyBaldEagle]

Number 5 is wonderful, I'm not sure about the message you were trying to send but I think a slightly tighter crop, focusing more on the passage between the trees there would make it much more forboding. Very well done as is though, I love it.

16 is also well done, the lighting fits the mood of the picture wonderfully, the shoulder in the background is a little weird though...looks like you (you in the picture or a friend?) were twisting funny.

Something about 9 isn't agreeing with me. It's a nice shot, but I don't like how distant the shack is. To each his own though, it's a nice landscape.

I think number 4 could've done with a crop that focused on just the waterfall without the forest behind it, I can see it would've been an issue trying to get both logs fully in the picture while cropping out the forest though. Nice capture overall, beautiful

I think number 1 is my favorite of your headphone series. Simple yet effective.

Great stuff, quality work =)

[eazym]

#2) Lightboxes have nothing to do with what I'm talking about, I'm speaking of f/stops.
#4) Too much tension/conflict at the right edge of the photo, jarring effect.
As for the pearl necklace, it doesn't really matter if its reall or not...tee-heeheee...my point stands. But I promised not to make any jokes...tee-heeh eee
I can see all of the photos now

[Le Gab]

ok. Take a deep breathe and push all the macro photography out.

[KendraJ.K.]

Pygmy - i see what you mean with number 5 a lot actually thanks ill have to try it out :)
16 (self portrait) and i actually dont remember lol...but yer right it does look odd
9 yeah i wish it was closer too...
4 my only issue with cropping out the forest would have been that it would be too long and imo look odd....maybe after winter ill go back and reshoot it :)
and thanks!!!


eazym -
2 i had the fstop at 7.1...what would you suggest i set it to??

le gab - um why??? is that just personal opinion cause i was more loooking for critiques thanks tho

[Rhynome]

ok. Take a deep breathe and push all the macro photography out.

Gabriel! macro can be sorta good, well, close up images, you can play with sort of basic blocks of colour, that's just one advantage... there's much to it.

Bias, tsk...
(17... remember that number Gab, 17.)

And Kendra, nice to see your stuff, too much to really comment on it right now, not enough time, toodles!

[Kendra, don't get offended by Gab, he's not an offensive person, he just likes to see more than macro, infact he's positively anti-macro... yes, you have the all clear, you may kill each other over ideology now.]

[eazym]

For the look I'm thinking of, it would hover around f16 or so, that way the plug would be in-focus as well.

[Le Gab]

Yeah, actually I'm all cute and cuddly on the inside. Just that really, really, really deep down inside.

Sorry for taking the time to reply. I do realise that i was a bit vague. Well, anywayz, mostly macro photography kills composition.

The way i see it: get some real macro lense and a powerfull slr and get some mindblowing shots or just drop it. You see, macro is all about detail and shooting macro without the propper gear is preety much like serving Cabernet Sauvignion to sheep. Bears... Monkeys. Well, you get it.

There is another kind of macro that tat doesnt really need huge ammount of details. Abstract macro. but that's another glass of Cabernet all togheter. :)

Kudos!

[Le Gab]

One more thing. Thumbs up on no. 20. Tres chique. :)

[KendraJ.K.]

thanks everyone

and im not offened by gab. i completely understand :) and i cant see number 20..i think i moved it...do you remember what it was???


here are a few new pictures...all were just experiments so please please be brutally honest! thanks.
yes most are macros :blahblah: and i dont really like most so rip them apart please :)


29-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-6-071022.jpg

30-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-6-071482.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-6-073312.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-6-073852.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-6-074542.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-6-075082.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-6-075742.jpg

36-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-4-070492.jpg

[KendraJ.K.]

ahem alright some more new photos..maybe these will get comments...lol


37-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-0704720.jpg


38-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-070612.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-070662.jpg

40-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-070712.jpg


next two i tried to do a "painitng with light" technique...not sure it it worked out..lol 41 is slightly edited 42 there is no editing but border and watermark. I would really apprecitate comments on these if not hte others thanks

41-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-072072.jpg

42-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-072092.jpg

43-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-072372.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-072482.jpg

45-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-10-072232.jpg

[vintagebleach]

I love the bubble ones especially 34. The colors really caught my eye. I'm a big fan of macro photography. I also like number 4, the tree branches acentuate the movement of the water.

[eazym]

37 is all about mood. Old, classic, and, to me, fantastic. Atmosphere is all.

[KendraJ.K.]

:) thanks

[born_stubborn]

i love the colors in your pic, and that last experiment was fantastic:)

[KendraJ.K.]

i love the colors in your pic, and that last experiment was fantastic:)

thanks so much :)

[KendraJ.K.]

some self portraits...that were very difficult to take becuase i was using my macro filters for many of them....:nohope: hard to focus

46- Limited editing
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-23-070162.jpg

47-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-23-070862.jpg

48-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-23-071132.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-23-072022.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-23-072282.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-23-073742.jpg

52-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/2-23-070142.jpg

[Rhynome]

50
Holy...****! Crazy mad eyes! I like the photo, and the sort of 'rushing' at the top helps it.

I quite like 46 too. Thanks for sharing again.

[KendraJ.K.]

:) thanks so much

[samsite999]

some very interesting takes on subjects here, you have your own very uniqe style and i quight like it.

I beleve number 45 is my favert, all in all a very nice thred here

[KendraJ.K.]

some very interesting takes on subjects here, you have your own very uniqe style and i quight like it.

I beleve number 45 is my favert, all in all a very nice thred here

:) thanks so much!

[KendraJ.K.]

a few new photos


53-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-21-070932.jpg

54-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-21-071222.jpg

55-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-21-071842.jpg

56-http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-26-070872.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-30-070382.jpg

58-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-30-070402.jpg

59-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-30-070852.jpg

60-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-30-070802.jpg

61-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/3-30-070692.jpg

[Rhynome]

I envy the last bit of you recent post. The masque bit; I want two dozen of those masks, as well as other things... still looking... Well, I haven't really been looking recently, that may be part of the problem.

56 is my preferred one from this set.

[Obsidian]

Well rather late but I really love 37 :)

[KendraJ.K.]

hey guys, I know its been a while but i wanted to put some new photos up.

please i'm really looking for totally honest honest critiques!

62-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/4-16-071112-1.jpg

63-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/4-16-071492-1.jpg

64-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/6-1-070082-1.jpg

65-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/6-9-10-070572.jpg

66-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/6-9-10-071442.jpg

67-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/6-9-10-07034v12.jpg

68-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/6-1-070862.jpg

[purplerose]

Here goes honest, honest... :)

62: I like the soft focus, but the blurred part in the middle is a bit distracting. I think some more contrast would also help too.

63: I like the colors, but a better composition (portrait format) would make it stand out more.

64: Nice contrast here, but the composition is fighting to get through. Maybe a reshoot trying a landscape format as well should be in the works. I would say crop some of the left side, but that would kill the sky element.

65: Beautiful contrast here. :) I would probably crop out the small black triangle shadow at the bottom.

66: I really like the colors and contrast, but I think a landscape format would have worked better. The portrait format is kinda squishing your composition. It would be ok if both sides had trees.

67: BEAUTIFUL!! :)

68: Same thing here! :)

Hope that helps... I had to turn on my nitpicking switch for ya. :) Overall, I think you should work on your composition and then everything else will flow out naturally. :) This update was a nice mixture of techniques, stick to doing a mixture of things!

[KendraJ.K.]

thanks so much for the feedback i really appreciate it!

62- i totally agree...sadly all i ahve to shoot macros with are filters and they arent the best thats why the center is blury :(

64- i have a version of it in landscape format but i just dont like the overall look of that version of it http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/6-1-070952.jpg i edited it a little differently, but yeah lol

66- hehe i have landscape version of this too. there actualyl wasn't as many trees on the other side, at elast not from my position http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/6-9-10-071282.jpg


again thanks so much :)

[eazym]

liking the pattern on 67, nice to see you working with light and shadow

[KendraJ.K.]

it's been a while i know.
but i finally got around to getting some film developed. some of these are older and some are newer and im still trying to learn as much as i can with film so please any comments or critiques i would really appreciate!

for film I use a Nikon N50 with a 35-80mm Nikkor AF lens and for film i use Kodak professional Black and White 400 ISO film.
in a lot of my photos, the highlights are a bit bright cause i'm not sure how to judge what to set film to so i use my SLR to judge first and then set my N50 and i always forget that my N50 is 400ISO film and my DSLR is set at 200ISO
anyways.

onto photo.

69-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-27-2007-222.jpg

70-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-27-2007-162.jpg

71-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-27-2007-152.jpg

72-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-27-2007-062.jpg

73-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-28-2007-052.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-28-2007-092.jpg

75-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-28-2007-172.jpg

76-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-28-2007-202.jpg

77-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-28-2007-072.jpg

78-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/8-27-2007-182.jpg

[purplerose]

69, 70 & 78 - I love these! The only thing that's holding them back are the highlights/contrast. I think the whites can be pushed a bit brighter without losing your softness.

The "trick" with B/W photography, is that when you're looking through the viewfinder, you want to compose/arrange based on light to dark, not colors. My photo prof told me that in most cases, you should have both a pure white and a pure black in a B/W photo (#71 is a great example of this). Of course if you're going for a soft photo, or a Frank Miller style the contrast rules vary a bit.

74 & 75 are just a matter of finding a less busy background (or an extremely shallow DOF) and cropping.

Keep working that film!

[KendraJ.K.]

omg an update! :O :)
any and all feedback appreciated!



79-that daunting feeling.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/10-11and10-260502.jpg

80-up against a brickwall.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/10-11and10-260452.jpg

81-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/10-11and10-260942.jpg

82-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/10-11and10-2601222.jpg

the next ones are a project i did for my art class last quarter. we had to pick a contemporary art movement and do a small study on it. i picked "Land Art/Earth Art/Earthworks"

83-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/11-5-70172.jpg

84-luring snowwhite.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/11-5-70252LURINGSNOWWHITE.jpg

85-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/11-5-70302.jpg

86-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/11-5-702922.jpg

87-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/11-5-70472.jpg

[purplerose]

Really nice contrast and textures in 79 & 80. :)

I like 81 as well. I think the DOF could have been a bit larger on the stem thingy though.

Nice work in 83-86. I really like the contrasting red and greens more than the red/oranges in 87.

[Mr. Mu]

Hey Kendra, I posted a bit of a feedback on flickr already, but I just wanted to add that I really like your land art series...again...LOL

[KendraJ.K.]

purplerose:
thanks!

mr. mu:

^_^ thanks again
( i dont think i replied on flickr. i dont like how comments work on it, you can't reply so the peopple are notified )

[eazym]

oh those crazy apples, always up to something.

[Mr. Mu]

eazym...LOL


i dont like how comments work on it, you can't reply so the peopple are notified

people can configure their comments so they get RSS updates if someone replies to them...! So, people will know eventually.

[KendraJ.K.]

88-91
shot at 1600ISO. just playing around mostly, i've never used 1600iso before.



88-
triptych
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-8-07.jpg

89-
1

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-8-071122.jpg

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1.2
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-8-0711222-1.jpg

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2
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-8-071312.jpg


First time shooting hot cocoa/coffee/tea type thing. and i want to try some more shots iwth it, so any suggestions on different lighting or angles would be great!


92-
diptych
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-8-0704622.jpg

93-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-8-070472.jpg

94-
High-key hot cocoa
(first try at high-key photography)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-8-070752.jpg

[eazym]

I know this isn't much of a critique, but I just got this craving for cocoa...

[purplerose]

Nice work in 91 & 92.

93 is nice as well, but the angle makes me a little dizzy though.

Nice try in #94. I think in order to push the essence of high key, maybe try focusing on one part of the mug/plate (closeup/macro?) with a dash of color. With so much of the brown label showing, it doesn't feel like a high-key photo to me.

[KendraJ.K.]

eazym- thanks! at least i know they are successful! lol


pr- thanks and i agree. ive been trying to think of other things i have around the house that could work for osme high-key shots.

:)

[KendraJ.K.]

did a photoshoot with my friend amy, on friday.

95-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-070142.jpg

96-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-070252.jpg

97-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-070302.jpg

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-070392.jpg

99-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-070572.jpg

100-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-070782.jpg

101-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-071552.jpg


the rest were shot at either 1600 iso or 1250 iso

102-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-071842.jpg

103-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-0718422.jpg

104-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-071932.jpg

105-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-071962.jpg

106-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/12-21-072152.jpg

[KendraJ.K.]

hmmm...

welll..
i got 15 rolls of film for my birthday!!! and a remote for my D70s and a film/flatbed scanner!

[purplerose]

Congrats! I need a remote too. I like #101. I think for the other portraits you should play around with the compositions/poses more and try to use different lighting.

[KendraJ.K.]

i've been doing some more conceptual/fine art portraits lately

107-
a delicacy in france-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-12-083732.jpg

108-
a delicacy in france-part deux
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-12-083572.jpg

109-
claustrophobic ii
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-12-085782.jpg

110-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-18-080452.jpg

111-
reckless-
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-18-080172.jpg

[purplerose]

Where's claustrophobic iii???

[Morbid]

I like 102, 105 and 108.

[KendraJ.K.]

thanks morbid

edit: because purplerose asked for it

112- claustrophobic iii
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Ziarre69/1-12-085972.jpg

[purplerose]

Yay. :) That one has the best mood out of the claustrophobic series. It uses the soft color tones nicely as well.

[Gentile]

I like 108 a lot. The angle rocks XD and the dress.