hallowed kiss

[mike_dixon1]

A shot taken at Artrageous, an annual gallery crawl/art exhibit/big-ass party benefiting Nashville CARES.<p>

 

<img src="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/burmashave/thekiss01.jpg">

[Tony Rowlett]

The female figure in the upper-right really does it for me in this

shot. By gosh, is that a guy kissing another guy? Shocking!

[christel_green1]

Nicely caught moment, and certainly more kinky than my voodoo

keychain :)

 

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How tall are you? The angle really does it for me.

[Spearhead]

Tony's right about that woman, the expression and the mask combine to

be hilarious. Although it does look like two men, the sexual

ambiguity lends some mystery to it. Looks like a party I'd enjoy...

[mike_dixon1]

Christel, I'm 182 cm tall. They were seated. : )

 

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I'm not certain of the sex of the person in the hat (female, I

think, though she was with the woman on her left); for my purposes,

certainty isn't necessary (or even desirable).

 

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I just posted a cropped version of this shot (left third of frame

removed) on photocritique.net.

 

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Thanks for the comments so far. It was a great party.

[Spearhead]

I saw the cropped version. I like this one better. It feels more

like a party here.

[allan engelhardt]

<p>Mmm, I like the tones of this picture -- it has a nice quality to

it. You do your own development and printing?</p>

 

<p>I can see why you wanted to crop the image: it's a shame that you

didn't turn the camera slightly to the right: those two women are

great. On the other hand, having them there -- litterally on the edge

-- does add a certain tension to the image.</p>

 

<p>With the composition you have chosen, is it possible to get a

little more detail in the left-bottom corner. Looking very closely at

my monitor, there does seem to be information there that could be

brought out by the printing (or digitally).</p>

 

<p>But: it's a great moment you have captured and I really like your

image.</p>

 

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<p><small>Yes, I'm back again... There is <a

href="http://cybaea.com/cgi-bin/posthack.pl">still no preview</a>, is

there?</small></p>

[mike_dixon1]

Allan,

 

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Yes, I do all my own b&w developing and printing. On the print, the

detail in the guy's jacket and girl's glove is much more visible

(there's even some just-discernible detail in the middle person's

jacket). Trying to preserve those details in the web image results in

blacks that are only dark grey; I feel that preserving the overall

contrast of the image benefits it more than maintaining the details in

the near blacks.

[todd frederick]

All characters in this image interact. Wonderful. I like tight

cropping. Cut on the left.