Mona Lisa Calling

It's an interesting/evocative image, in that it suggests to me a scene from a ballet or an opera,

or one of those "Romantic" photographic images

by Julia Margaret Cameron, taken in the 1860's.

Unbelievably etherial and excellent image. Thanks for the inspiration.

Superb shot!

This is a wonderful photo - I love it!

It is a timeless image- well done.

This is a work of art that should be blown up and framed.

well done !

Congratulations on POW Doug. With a toy camera too. Excellent work. Can't wait to hear from the technodweebs on this one.

Gorgeous. How did you do it? Is the effect from simple motion?

A truly beautiful piece of work. Congratulations

I forsee a run on Diana-type cameras on e-bay. This is stunning.

I didn't look at the camera type until Dennis mentioned that you did this with a toy camera, as I scrolled back up, expecting to see an fixed focus p&s or something listed, I was dreading a week of equipment arguements (it's good but...if only you had used... etc.), but instead was listed the Diana. Wow.

Excellent job.

Just to pick on something, the title is disconcerting in my opinion and detracts from the etherial spookiness of the picture. For some reason the compression has a lot of jpeg artifact. Makes me wish there was a higher res image somewhere to see.

Terrific portfolio.

 

Overall I think this is an excellent work. the out of focus elements give the picture a sense of movement. There is no extraneous material detracting from the subject. My only wish is that the film was a little less grainy - if this had been shot on 50-speed film then additional and additional etheriality or softness could have been added withough the prescence of grain.

This is extremely well done! Truely a very moving image. I love it. Congrats!

This is an image that I would never have thought to take but I really like it. It is well composed and technically well done.

Interesting and creative work.

 

It can be hard to judge tonality from a scan, so take the following with a grain of salt:

 

I'd like to see a little more luminosity in the streaming cloth in the upper lefthand corner to balance the brightness in the lower righthand corner. I wouldn't do a reshoot, but would try some local ferricyanide bleaching on the print or maybe make a large-format copy of the negative and try local intensification with a brush and Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner 1:2.

 

Then I think I'd also bring up the value of the face of the woman standing and looking down, just a bit, by dodging.

This is real artwork - it moves you.

Beautiful photograph. Nicely executed. Very artistic and mysterious. Great lighting.

Ken

Hey Doug, I commented a while back but had to comment again now that this has been chosen POW. Congratulations, and well deserved!

Very dreamlike, visions of Fallen Angles and Faust.

 

Goes to show it really is the monkey behind the camera. Great shot.

A cool, painterly shot. It's very reminiscient of early pictorialist work where photographers were trying to emulate the popular painting styles of the time. Artisits generally rejected this style after a while, instead favoring sharp focus and abstract subjects.

 

It's nice to see someone experimenting with this style.

Congratulations on this excellent piece of art.

Very pleasing to the eye.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think it's definitely a gorgeous and even philosophical piece. Did you notice that it works just as well (if not better) if you rotate it 90 degrees? Excellent job though.

Please don't re-print or change this based on advice. I first saw it and drew in a breath; for me, a sign of true communication between an artist and viewer that is best left un-analyzed by the critics and great artistes among us. True art. Thank you for letting me see it.

What dreams are made of.... a beautiful image. The composition, light and vision are perfect. Truly a work of art.

 

Bravo!