From My College Days

[ESiggins]

This shot was taken at a body building competition for fraternities at Binghamton University. The people are looking at a frat boy posing on stage in a g-string and covered in baby-oil. I really like it as a PJ/doco shot, but I wanted to get other opinions:
http://esiggins.smugmug.com/photos/47414760-M.jpg

I'm more interested in critique of the subject rather than technical stuff, unless there's something so technically bad that you think it ruins the photo. Thanks,

Fred.

[SpeshulEd]

well, I can tell that there are fratskies in the shot, but I can't tell where they're at.

I think a good PJ should tell a story, this tells me I'm looking at an audience, but I'd have no idea it was a body building competition unless you told me.

[ESiggins]

Okay, thanks. It might be better a second shot after one of the action on stage?

[SloYerRoll]

Please no posting frat boys in g-strings.
I'll never come to the whipping post again!:rolleyes

It seems that you captured quite the gamut of emotion w/ this shot.
From drunk frat boys (read frat boys) to disgusted women and men.

I would recommend using an off camera flash to get rid of some of the shine on foreheads and glasses; unless you have fast glass. If you can bump your f-stop to 1.x you may have much better success than using any off camera light source.

[ESiggins]

Please no posting frat boys in g-strings.
I'll never come to the whipping post again!:rolleyes

Hehe, don't worry - I would never subject y'all to that. Strange rituals these manly men go thorugh...:huh

I would recommend using an off camera flash to get rid of some of the shine on foreheads and glasses; unless you have fast glass. If you can bump your f-stop to 1.x you may have much better success than using any off camera light source.

Thanks for the tip. I was planning on buying a sync cable for macro shots anyway and I do need to practice off-camera technique.

[Swartzy]

It appears as a rather off the cuff candid of a group of people not watching the same things. Possibly there is much going on up on stage to the left/right as some people are looking at the camera, some to the left, some down, some right. The man and woman in front are "flashed" but yet all the other people are in focus as well with the trailing light from the strobe.

I can't really tell that a subject was chosen, or a particular theme is conveyed. JMHO.

[mmroden]

Ah, SAE, Same A...les Everywhere. Gotta love 'em.

I do agree, it would be better if their attention could all be focused on the one guy. If the people in the front are recoiling in horror, and the frat boys are chanting. Something like that. As it is, they're all kind of doing their own thing, and the just look like an audience. Not a riveted audience, just an audience.

I'd second the off-camera flash, but I wonder what a ceiling reflection might do for you, or a diffuser, as well.

[ESiggins]

Good advice, y'all. Thanks for looking.

[LittleLew]

A startling set of no-comment comments.
Is this not the Whipping Post?

I see a reasonably well-exposed candid of a crowd, frat boys in the back, motley adults in the foreground. Nothing of interest to anyone except as a record shot.

[ESiggins]

A startling set of no-comment comments.
Is this not the Whipping Post?

I see a reasonably well-exposed candid of a crowd, frat boys in the back, motley adults in the foreground. Nothing of interest to anyone except as a record shot.

Nice. You've managed to whip the shot and the other whippers at the same time without offering anything constructive. How do you manage?

[LittleLew]

Nice. You've managed to whip the shot and the other whippers at the same time without offering anything constructive. How do you manage?

Excess of nastiness generated from a bunch of wives.