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The minimalism works. The scene feels very cold.

Some old work.

Nice freezing of action. Expression is awesome, and I like the color palette present in the photo.

Some good action going on. Managing to catch all three of the dancers while they are on one foot really helps the impact of this photo.

This would make a great desktop image. :D

Doing some handheld 4x5 at the local fair.

"I think you are a seriously disturbed human being." ~From above.

 

Now, what I think is disturbing are photos of babies and macro shots of flowers. Now as for this photo, it is just too damn spiffy.

Please, do tell how you lined it up so good.

Rotting cars are allways good.

Just a rope.

 

COuld have sworn it was two snakes in the small size. :) Nice pic.

The lighting comment kind of confused me also. I did also do the same shot with a front light, its cool, but I liked the eeryness of the unlit from shot better so that one got the post here. I don't know why adding light would be taboo either, I'm sure most commercial product shots use light other then what the sun(or moon) is giving. One of the advantages of shooting night scenes is the amount of creativity you can put into the lighting when you have 8-25 minutes to work with flashes, as opposed to 1/250th of a second. Befinitly a plus when shooting for surrealism.

 

Here is the same shot with a front light also.

 

http://zeropoint.six-something.org/v02/images/photos/july2001/kafka.jpg

Hmmm, I didn't know that 3d renderings where part of photo.net.

The lighting was all existing light from the parklights near the tree.

The softness might be because of the scanner, especially since you said the negative is clear. What you can try doing to get rid of scanner fuzzyness is to use an unsharp mask filter in whatever graphics program you used. I personally use the settings of Amount:500%, Radious:0.2, Threshold:0 in photoshop. This will realy help if you have done any resizing of the image since the orginal scan.

Don't worry. I didn't.

Would be hard to get more contrast in the trees. Just one of the features of shooting in fog. Anything not right up close starts to blend in real quick.

Took this right before sunrise, while the lake had a thick fog on it

that blend the sky and water. If you look close you can see a hint of

the distant shoreline. Shot on a tripod with an auto exposure at

f5.6, overexposed +1 stop. I think the exposure was around 30 seconds

or so. The print that came back form the lab was very sad, the

background was white, and the dock looked like a daylight lit

grey/orange color. This one was taken from my film scanner and

accurately portrays the scene as I seen it while photographing it.

 

Comments? I love it because of the almost surreal feeling that is

achieved by the water and sky blending into one blue background.

Almost as if the dock is suspended in nothing.

My guess is : The work of Satan. Err, I mean a puddle, yes that is it. groovy photo none the less. I like it.

 

 

Damn, now THAT is one beutiful photo.

Love the colors that are present. I also love the use of the black dead space that occupies most of the photo.