Recent Professional Works

[harlemshooter]

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[AndreNapier]

Snook,
I love the balance on the first one A+
Andre

[rainer_v]

snook:
thats cool stuff. love it.

[HarperPhotos]

Hey Snook,

Great images, nice lighting.

Cheers

Simon

[HarperPhotos]

Hey Snook,

Great images, nice lighting.

Cheers

Simon

[doncody]

A soon to be finished project I have been working on. The origianl color was or is Prophoto RGB and for some reason it loses a lot when converted by PS to web..

Snook  

Snook,

Beautiful stuff.

Is the elephant in the first image a little Avedon tribute? (Dovima with Elephants)

Don

[Phil Indeblanc]

A soon to be finished project I have been working on. The origianl color was or is Prophoto RGB and for some reason it loses a lot when converted by PS to web..

Snook  

I like this one.

The composition works, the model is strong with a nice pose.  Perhaps the color conversion you mention makes it a bit linear...or your coloring by choice to give it that dated film look for the overall back scene.....but I can see this being a very nice image. It looks the least comp-ed.

Nice work overall!

[Snook]

Snook,

Beautiful stuff.

Is the elephant in the first image a little Avedon tribute? (Dovima with Elephants)

Don

Hey Don and everybody thanks for the comments.. I really appreciate it.
I never thought about it that way but yes Avedon was and is a favorite of mine..;+}
I am going to post some more stuff that similar soon. I have been working on my compositing and do all my retouches myself.

Was not sure if anybody work like it all as I posted a lot of mixed up images.
The first one I put the mask on the girl in post as I was screwign around with my compositing and thought it came out pretty.

Thank you all for the nice comments.

Snook

You guys have inspired me to keep moving forward and to keep up my compositing techniques. Some images are with the P30 mixed with some images from the Canon 35mm.

The girl on the roof top was actually a campaign that I shot the model with the RZ and we shot it a horribly ugly spa and I convinced the client to switch out all the back grounds for something more modeern so I used some images from a trip to San Paolo Brasil...:+}
This is another from the same Everlast job:
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Snook

[Kumar]

Dear All,

I've finally got round to getting my website online. I would appreciate your comments. Trying to whittle down the number of images is exhausting!

www.bskumarphotography.com

Thanks,
Kumar

[PLLove]

Dear All,

I've finally got round to getting my website online. I would appreciate your comments. Trying to whittle down the number of images is exhausting!

www.bskumarphotography.com

Thanks,
Kumar

Kumar, I like it!  Very user-friendly.  I also like the story in the "About" section.

-PL

[Rob C]

Dear All,

I've finally got round to getting my website online. I would appreciate your comments. Trying to whittle down the number of images is exhausting!

www.bskumarphotography.com

Thanks,
Kumar

Nice work and colours. One thing, perhaps just in my mind: when you do corrected verticals, particularly with vertical formats and where the sides of structures go far up the picture and close to the sides of the frame, it sometimes looks better to have the tops of the structures slope ever so slightly inwards. To have verticals too correct is sometimes counter-productive.

Two questions:
a. does the Grand Hotel still exist in Bombay? I think it was on or very near Ballard Pier;
b. have you been to Ooty or to Vizag?

Lovely country - miss it sometimes.

Rob C

[Kumar]

PLove: Thanks for the kind words.

Rob: Thank you. Where needed, the images are slightly under-corrected. Yes, the Grand Hotel still exists. My dad's office was quite close to it. He used to work half-days on Saturdays, and would take us there sometimes for lunch. Very old world atmosphere. I haven't been there in many years now. More often it would be the Britannia restaurant for pulao or the Bristol Grill for sandwiches or idlis and dosas before a movie at Eros or Sterling.

I've been to Vizag a couple of times, but not Ooty. Vizag is not too far from my hometown, Guntur.

Kumar

[aaronleitz]

Dear All,

I've finally got round to getting my website online. I would appreciate your comments. Trying to whittle down the number of images is exhausting!

www.bskumarphotography.com

Thanks,
Kumar

Hi Kumar,

Two things about your site:
1) I think you should pay the $30 for the license for simpleviewer so that there isn't the link at the bottom of the gallery. It looks amateurish.
2) Your website is seriously messed up when viewing in Firefox. The images are really small and the gallery navigation is all bunched up. In Safari it looks good.

Some really nice images.

[Rob C]

PLove: Thanks for the kind words.

Rob: Thank you. Where needed, the images are slightly under-corrected. Yes, the Grand Hotel still exists. My dad's office was quite close to it. He used to work half-days on Saturdays, and would take us there sometimes for lunch. Very old world atmosphere. I haven't been there in many years now. More often it would be the Britannia restaurant for pulao or the Bristol Grill for sandwiches or idlis and dosas before a movie at Eros or Sterling.

I've been to Vizag a couple of times, but not Ooty. Vizag is not too far from my hometown, Guntur.

Kumar

Kumar

The Eros (in '53) used to be air-conditioned, another cinema I would go to was the Metro. Marine Drive (?) had a place called the Persian Café... The Grand was old-style even in the '50s - different, but the same mood as the old Raffles in Singapore had in the '80s.

Vizag. I lived there for a few years and went to school in Ooty. I learned to swim in a small bay across from the Dolphin´s Nose which was one side of the waterway that led up to Scindia´s Shipyard. My grand-father was the naval architect who created the Jala Usha; I sat on its launch platform in '48 along with Pandit Nehru - I got his autograph. We still have some photographs of those wonderful years. One interesting thing about the Jala Usha launch: they were not allowed to use tallow as lubricant so it was done on bananas. And it worked. Often.

I must ask you a question with no hidden agenda at all. Simply it is this: why did it become necessary to lose the names of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta? In my opinion, it was just throwing out a hugely important piece of Indian heritage for nothing. The whole world knew those names - Sinatra even sang about a bar in far Bombay...  they held magic.

Rob C

[H1/A75 Guy]

You guys have inspired me to keep moving forward and to keep up my compositing techniques.

Looks to me like you are getting your inspiration from Frank. Composites aside, the only thing that is missing is his logo.

David

[Kumar]

Aaron,

Thanks for the kind words about the images.

1. I will certainly get the Pro version. I wanted to get some user feedback on the site and its functionality before doing it.

2. Thanks for the heads up re: Firefox. I checked it in Opera (my default browser), IE 5. 6, 7 and 8 and Safari, and it looks as intended. I will check it in Firefox.

Thanks,
Kumar

[Kumar]

Kumar

The Eros (in '53) used to be air-conditioned, another cinema I would go to was the Metro. Marine Drive (?) had a place called the Persian Café... The Grand was old-style even in the '50s - different, but the same mood as the old Raffles in Singapore had in the '80s.

Vizag. I lived there for a few years and went to school in Ooty. I learned to swim in a small bay across from the Dolphin´s Nose which was one side of the waterway that led up to Scindia´s Shipyard. My grand-father was the naval architect who created the Jala Usha; I sat on its launch platform in '48 along with Pandit Nehru - I got his autograph. We still have some photographs of those wonderful years. One interesting thing about the Jala Usha launch: they were not allowed to use tallow as lubricant so it was done on bananas. And it worked. Often.

I must ask you a question with no hidden agenda at all. Simply it is this: why did it become necessary to lose the names of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta? In my opinion, it was just throwing out a hugely important piece of Indian heritage for nothing. The whole world knew those names - Sinatra even sang about a bar in far Bombay...  they held magic.

Rob C

Rob,

Persian Cafe is no more, unfortunately. Eros is still more or less the same, while Metro has become a multiplex. Thankfully, the structure itself remains unchanged.

India is a complex country, and we have leaders who think that changing names is a substitute for solving problems. Though the official name is Mumbai now, in daily usage Bombay was always (and is) Mumbai in Marathi and Gujarati, and remains Bombay (or its variations) in other languages. Calcutta was Kolkata only to Bengalis, and frankly, most of us don't really know how or why Madras became Chennai.

Kumar

[Snook]

Looks to me like you are getting your inspiration from Frank. Composites aside, the only thing that is missing is his logo.

David

Hey Dumb ass, who is the one with a H1/A75 GUY as there name speaking of Logos..
I guess your were too stupid and talked before you thought as usual.
I take it those are not freeway names. You shooting Mamiya with a Phase one back I guess.

I guess your talking about Frank Lloyd Wright...Huh?

Snook

[feppe]

issue solved.

[michael]

Snook has been suspended from this site for 1 week.

Such rudeness is simply not tolerated here.

Michael