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I am proud of it indeed. Thank you! :)

Gerald, this photo is indeed wonderful! Ariel, usually seeing people fiddling with other's photos doesn't make me happy but I happen to like this one.

Thank you Bertram, I can't say I understand how the "Critique" mechanism work in this site. I have images with many hits and others without any hit (which some I believe are better than the images with high hit ratios). Thanks again, Loris.

I'm a viagra addict actually... this is how I see the world (big grin)!

I guess Tom Ang is mainly interested in "digital photography" (after a quick lookup in Amazon.com for books by him) but my image has nothing to do with "digital photography" and/or "color photography". This is an image made with a pinhole camera (first usage B.C. - archaic technology) and printed on silk using cyanotype process (first non-silver photographic process dating back to 1842 - can be considered as achaic too). I advice you to read the caption and technical details before making a comment.

Wow! Very catchy...

What do you think about the image?

Do you think the way the emulsion was applied adds something to the image?

TIA,

Loris.

Hi Bertram, I'm pretty sure that Ara Güler had somehow photographed this place (as you say "a subject one cannot pass if he/she is a photog"). But I think you remember this place from a photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson (see the attached file) rather than a photo from Master Ara (as we call him here in Turkey).

BTW, I like the two images together (like a diptych).

Best regards,

Loris.

Thanks Bertram, this is the one I like the most in this folder (although there are many other better photos - I mean technically more competent; this one has uneven development problem for instance, it's from my very first "tray development of multiple LF negatives" experience).

"Atmosphere" is the right word for it, I yet haven't made another photo that better captures the atmosphere and better transfers how it felt being there.

Hi Marc. Isn't this image from Zonguldak, Turkey (like your "Demon Driver")?

Regards, Loris.

This is "vandalism" as Peter Henry Emerson dictates in Naturalistic

Photography: "...no one but a vandal would print a landscape in red,

or in Cyanotype..."

Bunu Türkçe yazacagim:

Elif, bu çok güzel bir fotograf, senin amacin neydi bilmiyorum ama bana "...elimizdekilerin farkinda olmadan, onlarin sekli bozulmus/çarpiltilmis hayallerinin pesinden bosubosuna kosmak..." gibi bir tad verdi. Çok baska okumalar da yapilabilir tabi; bu da "bence" fotografin basarisini gösterir (birden fazla okumaya açik olmasi).

Bir elestiri: toz parçasini temizleseydin keske...

Gözüne & eline saglik!

Elif this is very interesting. This one have Roland Bhartez's "punctum" definitely.

You didn't miss it, I actually uploaded it yesterday (2004/01/07) You've been very quick to notice it. Thanks again!

This is a hard to make decision indeed. For me the two crucial points were: compactness and price (but I like fast optics too!?) 35/1.7 is big - I felt I wouldn't like the intrusion of it to the viewfinder. Also, I realized that I can save the $160 price difference between the two for a future CV lens purchase (such as the 75/2.5). So I decided to get the 35/2.5 and push my film one stop further instead of getting the bulkier but brighter 35/1.7 ;)

Agustin, your alt. process prints are all wonderful. While I think this one is a very nice photograph, I agree with the previous poster on the "chins" issue.

I think you can try the method of making duplicate negatives from high contrast lith film described in Liam Lawless' article "Less is More" (see the article @ alternativephotography.com). This method lets you make several duplicate negatives of different contrast grades for different processes...

This is indeed a very good suggestion. But I like the portrait as it is; if I crop the bottom, the viewer will loose hints describing the subject's posture. He may look like a Quasimodo then...

Thanks for the suggestion. I intentionally placed the subject close to the background to have all these "spikes" as you name them giving the portrait a threatening mood...

I rated it

A: 7 - despite I didn't like blown section at the lower left; it just doesn't manage to lessen the aesthetic even a bit.

O: 6 - because it reminds me photographs of Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

I like all your beach photo's. They're plain but beatiful. This particular one looks like a surrealist painting. I would rate it A: 7 if the horizon and the bird (a sea gull?) were sharp...

A: 6 (not 7 because I didn't like the washed out hand) O: 7

I wish I did such an original and successful portrait, thanks for sharing.

Why is it so small?

I like it very much, thanks for sharing.

Brava!

...to make portraits and I need constructive criticism.

Thank you,
Loris.

Does this photograph makes you share the same pessimism?

Peter, thanks much for your encouraging comments on the graphical-compositional aspects of this photograph.

About "originality"; I think originality is a property more connected/related to the viewer. It's the viewers perception that makes an image exceptionally "original". That's a very subjective criteria. For instance, if I had captioned the photograph "What's on a man's mind" (which was one of the "probable interpretations" that came in my mind while framing it - remember the famous Freud sketch?) the originality of it would certainly be stronger but also limiting for many other possible interpretations (like yours)... That's why I chose the straight caption "Railroad Crossing" - one other reason being that I don't like auto-assigned numeric photo.net id's when you leave the caption empty.

Regards,

Loris.