Bikini Kill

[Binks]

Thank you for all the encouragement and thank you for fixing the link.  I am preop and I do plan on wearing a bikini this season I am how ever looking towards a cute ruffle skirt style.

[Cowboi]

Wow, did you really pull out a photography class there?

The law of thirds does not need to be applied to every photo and honestly cannot be expected to be used all of the time. Look at some of the most famous photographers of our time, this definitely shows that the law of thirds can constantly be broken with ease and still create a beautiful photograph as it isn't the "norm" any longer.

The lighting wasn't really something we could do much about. Since this was taken as a candid shot during a swimming trip I wasn't going to wait until the sun was just right to get a picture of my fiancee playing around climbing a tree (not to mention that moment would not have happened until the next day since I can't control the movement of the sun).

The same applies to the background, I don't control what grows on the tree and I don't control which trees at a lake are capable of being climbed up to be out over the water.

Zoom and depth of focus go out the window with a camera phone, just as the process of exposure does not apply to digital photography.

Maybe if we are going to talk photography we should look at photos that are intended to be great photographs instead of someone's snap shots. After all, if I needed that much improvement I doubt I would have spent years as a newspaper photo editor and I probably wouldn't have become a published photographer in several different books on the subject of photography and art. But thanks for the feedback.

[Alyssa M.]

I was just teasing. That's what I intended to convey by the . I guess I failed. (The only reason it was even a little bit serious was that it was a bit difficult to tell from that photo how she looks in person, and thus harder to answer the question.)

Please forgive me if I offended.

[Cowboi]

I was just teasing. That's what I intended to convey by the . I guess I failed. (The only reason it was even a little bit serious was that it was a bit difficult to tell from that photo how she looks in person, and thus harder to answer the question.)

Please forgive me if I offended.

Well I certainly forgive you and understand now that you meant it as a joke. A bit of advice for the future though would be to be a little less detailed and long winded in your jokes. It actually seemed like you were being really serious because it was so indepth lol. And as we all know, sometimes around here many things aren't meant to be jokes but hide behind that idea when they do offend. In the past though you have been really nice so I was a little surprised and thought it was out of character when I originally read it.

[tekla]

It actually seemed like you were being really serious because it was so indepth
That what makes it funny.

And as we all know, sometimes around here many things aren't meant to be jokes but hide behind that idea when they do offend
And that's when it becomes comic gold.

Remember, it's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hysterical.

[Cowboi]

That what makes it funny.

I always take really detailed things to be serious, but I do tend to be a pretty serious (and blunt/direct) person.

Remember, it's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hysterical.

I love it when people say that, it's just one of those things that amuses me (the saying, not necessarily someone getting hurt although that can be funny too).