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 Mutt
    
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Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
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< on 12/7/2005 4:54 AM >
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so alone...
let the critics loose.
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Opheliaism
   
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Location: Out on the border of everything and nothing, TN
Ophie
| |  | Re: The light
<Reply # 1 on 12/7/2005 5:15 AM >
| | | | The photo to me says "contemplation", Nice
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Kleio
Location: Vancouver, BC
Gender: Female
| | Re: The light
<Reply # 2 on 12/7/2005 6:29 AM >
| | | | Posted by Opheliaism
The photo to me says "contemplation", Nice
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See, my initial reaction was "That embodies loneliness..."
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: The light
<Reply # 3 on 12/7/2005 2:37 PM >
| | | | Damn, that's really nice. Loneliness or contemplation, that's the great thing about good photos, they let the viewer react in their own way. The only fault I see is technical - the blown-out highlights. They don't matter on the light, but they kinda bug me on your(?) shirt, although on a nice glossy bw print it wouldn't bother me so much. Nice shot. Is that the Distillery?
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Mutt
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Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
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| | | Re: The light
<Reply # 4 on 12/7/2005 4:56 PM >
| | | | Good eye mortimer. Yes it is the Gooderham & Worts distillery in Toronto. I took the shot on the night of Ninjalicious's book release party. It was quite chilly to be sitting there for the exposure times. I shot a bunch of similar shots that night but this I felt was the better of the bunch.
Thanks for the constructive criticsm. I might be able to tone it down a bit but I'm not sure how much detail is in the negative.
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Servo
| | Re: The light
<Reply # 5 on 12/7/2005 5:15 PM >
| | | | I'm actually going to disagree and say that the blown-out highlights are if anything adding to this picture, more so on his shirt than the brick though. There's a bit of haloing around his shirt, which gives it a slightly more ethereal look that seems to fit this image.
As you said Mutt, you might be able to tease some detail out of there, but it's going to be hard to see and will only make the rest of the image have less impact.
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: The light
<Reply # 6 on 12/7/2005 6:47 PM >
| | | | Looking at this again, the lightness could be used to advantage, maybe by darkening the brick wall a touch, but I would like to see (if it's on the neg) a little bit of definition separating the arm and sleeve from the body. And the light still needs to be pulled back a bit. Did you print this in a darkroom, or at a lab? Black and white negs often have more detail hiding in the highlights than you may notice at first glance, and burning the arm area and the light and highlight right underneath it (as in darkroom, not photoshop, burning) would maybe make the 'angelic' approach work. Or you could scan twice, once way too dark, once as is, and use the shadow detail from the dark scan for the light areas. Just a thought, but it's still a great photo.
By the way, I think I saw you getting ready to take this photo or a similar one on my way out of the book launch. I remember thinking 'that could be a cool shot.'
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Mutt
Moderator
Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
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| | | Re: The light
<Reply # 7 on 12/7/2005 10:14 PM >
| | | | Here's another from the same session.
Far to much camera cropping than I had hoped for and my forehead is baked out. Software sepia.
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Redknight
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
| | Re: The light
<Reply # 8 on 12/7/2005 11:49 PM >
| | | | I actually like the 2nd one a whole lot more. While the first shot is excellently framed and the emotion of the subject is captured well, I dont agree with the exposure and the shadows, maybe correctable in the darkroom.
The second one jumps out to me with alot more emotion, and the shadows on the man are excellent, and its emphasized with the closer framing of the shot.
I wouldnt change a thing on the first shot, except maybe alittle bit of a darker shot overall to sharpen the man up a bit, or maybe just burn him in alittle.
Edit: Now that I look at it, you could try a filter on the first one to get some shadows under the man like on the second photo and still retain most of his brightness.
[last edit 12/7/2005 11:51 PM by Redknight - edited 1 times]
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: The light
<Reply # 9 on 12/8/2005 2:46 PM >
| | | | I still like the first one much more. There's more emotion to me with the face looking off into space, and the pose, sitting against the wall, looks like meditation, while the standing and leaning pose is more of a 'just hangin out' kind of pose. Plus I'll take pure b/w over sepia any day.
And technically, I'd rather see the blown-out highlights in the first one than the bottom of the face in total darkness in the second one. Just some thoughts.
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