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I like the light temperature of this one better than the other very similar shot.

Are you using a strobe in a shoot-through umbrella just out of frame camera right (beside the subjects), shoulder height, and low-power slaves in the china balls? How did you prevent pollution of the background and floor?

What do you think?

Whitepoint and blackpoint seem a bit off.

The owner was pleased with the photos of his dogs. He'd never seen a

photo with detail in both dogs before.

Use a polarizer to remove the specular part of the reflections, making the foliage and sky darker.

 

or:

 

Low Contrast C-41 film should do the trick. I'd go with Reala. Or Ilford Delta 100 and a yellow filter if you want black and white (the yellow filter would make the walls & foliage darker, floor, chair, and sky lighter).

What do you think?

What do you think?

Pipers Lagoon Park, Nanaimo, BC

Night shot or the worksite where painters are painting the sign

"Painted Turtle Guest House" on the newly repurposed and renamed hostel.

I was trying to make everything from the foreground rocks to the tree in focus, but exceeded my len's coverage (press cameras don't have much coverage). I'll try cropping horizontally and vertically to see how it looks if I cut out the vignetting.

Wood grain on a bannister in a heritage building (1914).

30°, not 30�

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Fireworks and reflection in Ladysmith harbour. The silhoueted peopleare leaning against the railing of the Transfer Beach amphitheatre. Iwas on the second to top row of the amphitheatre, facing south, withthe TLR pointed about 30� up, with a 80mm lens, so just the railingwas visible in the bottom of the frame (set up before sunset). Thefireworks barge was horizontally centred in the frame. There are boatsin the harbour.

The lit up ground is actually the reflection in Ladysmith harbour. The silhoueted people are leaning against the railing of the Transfer Beach amphitheatre. I was on the second to top row of the amphitheatre, facing south, with the TLR pointed about 30° up, with a 80mm lens, so just the railing was visible in the bottom of the frame (set up before sunset). The fireworks barge was horizontally centred in the frame. The dark blobs on the "ground" with lights are boats.

From what I've read, don't use velvia for long exposures. The essential difference between Provia and Sensia is that Provia is more contrasty and Saturated. This is probably not a good thing for this type of shots.

The direct eye contact of this one (and the other) does not evoke a doll as strongly to me as the one where her gaze is fixed and averted.

It does remind me of a broken doll. If that was the effect you intended, bravo!

 

This effect might be enhanced by the addition of some oversized props to show scale.

Very nice.

 

Maybe cast a little light into the shadow on the right as it is significantly darker than the rest of the scene.

This image was on Sensia 100, Canon AE-1P, nFD 50mm f1.4. The slide was scanned in a batch on a Konica-Minolta Scan-Dual IV. I didn't sharpen after resizing. I think there may have been a little condensation on the lens and/or a slight breeze. I like the effect, at any rate.

 

 

 

The other images in that folder are all with the same camera, mostly with the same lens, and variously on Sensia 100, Provia, Reala, Portra 400NC, and some of the paintball ones are on Sensia 400 (Edit: oops... I didn't upload the paintball ones.).

Yes, there was either a problem at the lab or a grain of sand in my camera. Around that time I had 3 rolls where almost every exposure was scratched. I used my raw scans to produce these images for Photo.net, as my harddrive died recently, leaving only the raw scans from this batch.

Nanaimo Harbour during a break in rare a snowstorm, January 7, 2005

The Malaspina Hotel demolition site as seen from the fishing pier

after sunset, Nanaimo Harbour.

The fishing pier reaches into Nanaimo harbour beside the steps of

swy-a-lana lagoon.

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Frank Ney was mayor of Nanaimo for 21 years and oversaw the conversion

of an industrial area at the mouth of the Millstream River estuary

into this park. A statue of him in his pirate parade costume stands in

the park, near the bridge over the mouth of the Swy-a-lana lagoon.