Tuscan

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Great lighting and exposure. Love the flare in the sunglasses.
Not sure about the release button in your hand though, but I don't dislike it either.

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Tuscan 2

Yeah, I can get rid of that by using the timer. I probably should make a point of that.

I like it. The sun coming through your glasses is great. I think you could have done without the leaves on the left or the roof on the right. Is this an HDR? It looks soft. Also tilting right.

Thanks Greg. I do agree with both the leaves and the stairs on the right. I left the leaves, because I thought another foreground element would help a bit. But it would be better if there were either more leaves or none. The stairs were mostly because I just was too lazy to move some stuff on the patio to frame it better.

Not technically HDR. I think there is just a hint of tone mapping on the face and in the shirt, but most of it is just blending two exposures. Not what most people think about when they say HDR, but it is still basically the same thing just done by hand.

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Tuscan 3. This one is the least effective, but I like trying to get the extreme sun shot...

I think the second one wants a much tighter crop. Probably should clean up whatever circle artifact that is in the sky. Sometimes Canon sensors put odd dark circles in the sky. Used to happen on my old rebel too. Not sure why...

i like the fist one the best, interesting t-shirt

the detail of the sun on the glasses is great

first one is a bit soft as already mentioned, camera focus when you press the remote ? (I do not have one)

the second one is sharpest , but I do not think the pose is to great and does not have the strong backlight of the first one

last one has to much flare and it is hard to see

Errr... not sure what you're doing here Daq. Is this in Tucson? If so, where's the Seguaro to identify the area? The warmth in good in the second posting, but .. I guess I'm not getting it :D

G