Hello I put a new folder(8 pictures) in. It's a portrait serie about people working in the car business. Please check it out and critique.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=184871

Thanks a lot. Michael

-- Michael Wildi (michaelwildi@yahoo.com), February 18, 2002

Answers

Outstanding environmental portraits, Michael. A lot of photographers, including myself, muck these up trying to get too cute with them. I love the straightforwardness of the photos. Obviously these were shot in the UK because the car people looked somewhat honest. You can spot an American car salesman a mile away. They have this look of deceit written all over them. --------

-- Dayton P. Strickland (daytonst@bellsouth.net), February 18, 2002.

what do you need comments for--you know what you are doing--it shows...

-- charles mason (c.mason@uaf.edu), February 18, 2002.

Nah,they look more Swiss

-- Phil Andrews (philandrew@hotmail.com), February 18, 2002.

Michael, they are obviously very competent photographs. From the captions and slightly 'cheesy' feel they are not from the UK - perhaps Germany?

Without meaning to sound rude they seem rather 80's in 'look' - especially the 'Girl with hat' 'Bimbo with coffee' and 'Sucessful man in convertible'.

If you look at most corporate PR brochures (especially here in London), today's look is far more subtle and 'suggestive'.

Technically they are faultless.

-- Giles Poilu (giles@monpoilu.icom43.net), February 18, 2002.

Nah,Switzerland,you can just tell.

-- Phil Andrews (philandrew@hotmail.com), February 18, 2002.

Micheal,

Does Simone Deitz really dress like that when she sells Nissan's?

-- David Smith (dssmith3@rmci.net), February 18, 2002.

If any cleaner put a bucket on a car at my Merc dealership he would instantly recieve a written warning. Looks like Germany.

-- Tony Brookes (gdz00@lineone.net), February 18, 2002.

Nope,I'm going for Switzerland.

-- Phil Andrews (philandrew@hotmail.com), February 18, 2002.

OK. It's Switzerland. Everything is clean, somehow funny and shurely not European or American (just kidding). However, this assignment was a lot of fun to do. And I hope to do more of it in the near future. Best Michael

-- Michael Wildi (michaelwildi@yahoo.com), February 18, 2002.

Hi Giles Yes, the 80's is about right. I used to be a punk rocker back than. Michael

-- Michael Wildi (michaelwildi@yahoo.com), February 18, 2002.

Hi, Michael

Good photos. Fully professional.Technically flawless, of course.

Only contribution: IMHO the "posed" ( 80's ? ) look gets in the way. I feel that a more natural attitude would help to avoid having two different concepts on each picture: the pose and the car related ( intended ? ) content.

Thanks for sharing, Michael

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), February 18, 2002.

Mike... any relation to Ernst Wildi of H'blad (and other) fame?

-- Charles (cbarcellona@telocity.com), February 18, 2002.

I agree, it is a very 80's corporate brochure look. The difference is photographers tried to make models look like real people, where as you have succeeded in making real people look like models. Photogaphic source books (e.g THE BLACK BOOK) have been full of this type of work for a long time.

-- sait (akkirman@clear.net.nz), February 19, 2002.

Nice stuff, might be my monitor or the scan but some pics are just a little too dark for my liking, eg the girl with the beetle (I hope it is not a standard treatment at VW).

-- ReinierV (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), February 19, 2002.