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thanks BM. I'm sorry to say i didn't plan this one - i was trying out my new flash and managed to get a very nice angle (to my mind) which led to this just appearing for me.

heh, indeed Lupo - so handy and readily available during the hot weather aye, and even if the shot isn't quite right you get to drink it after shooting it; win win situation all round.
Thank for both the comments BM

new scan of older film shot. need to get a new holder for the neg. all

comments welcome

you guys up top may be chilly at the moment, but down south things

are roasting.

all comments appreciated. thanks.

thanks for the comments - i love to use a holga but this one is hasselbald 501cm MF.

very stark, very christmas card (or calendar... perhaps more so). very appealing image. nice work

Yeah, I took a few shots - some with it above and some  below - but this one drew my eye with the aspect of stepping off the end of the jetty and on to the land the other. appreciate the thoughts though, and time to write them, always nice to get another's perspective.

Thanks Rash.

hi, the composition is fairly static - by which I mean it does not really flow: you start bottom left on the camera with the machine background then you kinda wrench your eyes right to see what the object is over there (maybe also change it so it is more visible), so I don't feel lead through the shot.

The lighting is quite flat, which is good on occasion, but in this instance is tending to blend the machine in to the back ground and make the whole thing a little dull.

So I would work on the arrangement a bit - there are some good leading lines to make use of, and the lighting also.

Hope that is of some use. rob.

wonderfully odd. conjours up a number of different thoughts. I'm not sure if I would prefer a B&W version as it is all so tarnished and awful it might lose some of the grotty feel.

I do think the guy looks a little bit out of place - his composure is a little too relaxed given the expression on the woman. Although that could well be part of one of the messages being given; I think the image, for me, would have been stronger with a different pose.

nice one. Rob.

I've not done any hdr, so cant give you technique pointers, but for this image I reckon the process you've got came out spot on.

The lady on the piano looks the least worked, and so most real, part of the scene and is the obvious draw for the eye

the guy on the piano next least, the arm movement really helping.

then the background and its cast really do step into an almost comic book kind of effect.

The overall is really good. the flash placement, weather caught in the first shot or place after, is a great touch too. Although well constructed, I'm not sure the scene would have held quite the same appeal for me if it were more 'real'

nice one

hi. i think the bottom 2 are made stronger by being in the collection, but the top one could stand alone quite nicely and works on a number of different levels whilst leaving the viewer to descide what is implied. very nice.

prompted by your text, I'm thinking perhaps the opposite:curled and rigid claw of conformity gnarled and old(wrinkled) with few paths available being given the finger by the lively, faceted youthful character still briming with avenues and possibilities. I like it more for having being prompted to think on it. nice one, thanks.

bit of a tricky one; theres all that dead space on the right but if you crop it in tight towards the poster you'll lose some of what defines the 2 seperate parts. hmmm, perhaps chopping off up to the start of the red diagonal (someone's shoulder?) would balance it better.

a nicely organised shot - pose, background and post production, but.. I think the wardrobe could have been better chosen. because the flowy green bit (technical term there) comes from an unexpected place (ie: not her waist) it leaves her left leg looking slightly odd and out of place breaking what would otherwise be a very fluid shot.

tone/colour, setting and expression are all nicely done, but that white jazz up  in front of the face just distracts too much. I like what you've done to try and make it a part of the overall shot but I'm spending too much time perring round/through it. cheers, Rob

I really like the effect, but it is ruined for me by the billboard (square thing) beind it. it is all calm and peace, soft and dreamy, then bump: square thing. It would appeal to me more if it were perhaps shot from the other angle and just had that nice plain wall as the continual back drop (if it were possible).

I can see a couple of ways of reading the shot, but my brain is going for the continuity of that dark back ground and is rebelling against anything different ;-)

the shot is obviously very good, I can't fault the technique or production, and I enjoy the underlying thoughts I think I see in it. But one little thing bothers me - the very top of her ladder, the big dark shape. As I don't really know what the overall look of the fountain (assume) is I found that the majority of my time was trying to work that out; drawn again and again to the black shape rather than to the beauty of the rest of the shot. I'm not picking for the sake of it, and I haven't really anything to offer as a way around it, but it did distract from the overall image, for me.

great image; the close crop keeps all the focus in tight and the drama contained, the horse looks like it is clawing its way out of the shot. contrasts nicely with the extremely confident, relaxed expression of the rider - almost as though she is checking the horse is doing it right. The colour gives it a riding in to the sunset feel and the shutter speed has caught the action just right.

If I were to get picky, and I am, it would be towards the left foot in the stirrup. It may be exactly where it should be, but for me it looks uncomfortable and keeps dragging my eye back.

Excellent.