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I think the photo basically works: the frame is packed to overflowing with huge guys... it documents the event better than individual shots I would think.

 

The sign has to go, but cropping will remove their feet. Try photoshopping it out by pasting some of the from curtain over it. It'll take a lot of work to make it look right, I think.

 

GB

 

 

Wow. Great composition. I'm not sure the graininess helps, although at this scale it doesn't hurt, either.

 

GB

Great colour, nice bag. Plus we can see the barrel distortion in your lens :-)

 

Seriously, the composition is wonderful.

G

More interesting than the movie :-)

Excellent, the blown out whites are what makes this good: it looks like a fish of mercury running between the rocks. Good example of breaking the rules to good effect.

 

Graham

Although the model is French :-)

I like it: the detail is de-contextualised enough for it to be a bit cubist. I'm not a great fan of sepia toning and maybe some darker blacks would be nice, but then I'm looking at it on my crap work monitor.

 

Regards,

Graham

Nice and punchy, but the long lens makes the angle look a bit weird: you'd think he was one of those journalists who specialise in hanging a mile off in order to get a knee down without leaning the bike :-)

Bravo... amazing sense of scale and grandeur given to a ubiquitous object giving the viewer a fresh perspective on the world.

Thank you,

Graham

I like it a lot, at least partly because I don't know what it is: an old sink that has by chance come to resemble an impressionist landscape? A combination of rust and reflected trees? A photoshop montage? Whatever, it also works on a purely visual level, reminds me of Japanese wood-cut style. Congrats. Graham

I have to say I find it much less interesting than the "fun in the studio" shots (which are great). It's an excellent recreation of a classical style, just that it's a classical style I find boring: "woman as terracotta".

 

Best wishes,

Graham

Very 1920... It doesn't work for me, largely because the background becomes an undifferentiated mid-grey. It lacks punch. Just my cheap opinion :-)

Graham

Hills are perfect. I want to know how you got her out there without any foot prints :-)

I'd love to know the story behind this: the banner is in such perfect tabloid trash style that it could be parody. Although sadly I suspect not. Very nice composition, I like the blending of the sign into the sky, gives it a poerful graphic feel.

Graham

Pity about the technical aspects... rescue of a very thin neg? The expression on the passerby is priceless :-)

Cheers,

Graham

Of course it's contrived! I like the curve of the shadow... it works for me.

 

Portrait nu, I'd have thought. Like the strength of it and the fact it's not just another anonymous nude.

Ah, an electric cord... if you wanted to go down the domination route, you could have her holding the cord. Just how dark you want to go...

 

Also interesting that the mood changes slightly with more space, she becomes slightly less dominant.

 

Oh yeah, I've seen the whole folder now and I can see it's not you: not so obvious with the mask :-)

 

GB

Bill Brandt does bondage :-) I like the shadows and the choice of chair, although it's a shame you managed to snip the top off the head of the largest shadow.

 

Graham

My favourite of the 3... looks like she is an alien piloting her chair through space.

 

Best, Graham

Bravo Marc, it's technically superb. I'll completely avoid the "is it art" discussion, and say only that I find the position of the legs slightly awkward... as though the left foot should be slightly further back and to the right to create some tension from an angle between the legs.

 

Just a thought born of subjectivity :-)

 

Ciao,

Graham

Clever :-) For a doco on faith heelers: the electrically charged heelers draws from the patient a throbbing red mass of... exploded balloon?

 

Not sure about the fringing on the forceps though.

 

Cheers,

Graham

Some time back, the POW was a hyper saturated photo of a golf course. I didn't like it at all. Here we have a hyper-saturated tulip field, and I love it. I think the difference comes down to the use of saturated colour in an appropriate context: this photo works as a geometric pattern, we don't really need to know it has anything to do with tulips. Whereas the golf course was definitely a golf course and the over-saturation made it a plastic golf course.

 

Even better, the tree provides a contrast of an unexpected type: realist texture and detail against uniforn geometry. Brilliant and georgeous.

GB

Just looked at this again and it reminded me... Do you know Camus's "The Fall"? Not the precise story of course, but the idea...

 

Cheers, G

Hi Kaye,

I'm actually not a fan of this colour balance: it reminds me too much of underexposed snapshots under tungsten room lighting (and the same goes for all the "painting with light" stuff people have been excited about recently).

That said, it has your usual strength of telling a fragment of a story... the ends of which remain mysterious.

 

I'd like to see this with the face a little more prominant, with a *touch* of fill light to just put some points of light in her eyes. It might also be fun to have the model swirl the skirt: it might give it a bit of flamenco energy, but it could also be about her turning to or from a threat or surprise...

 

But keep shooting :-)

G