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Elma - Louis
G1 with 45mm Planar, Ilford Hp5+ pushed to 800 ASA and processed accordingly.Handheld, in very low light at full aperture. This picture bugged me a bit, because of her right eye that's in shadow and there's also a little movement that make the picture look out of focus.
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| Posted: | 23-Aug-2001 |
Rating: 7.00 (5 ratings)
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mysterium
Louis -- that one eye is shadowed and the other wide-open and peering, gives me, the viewer a chance to see her 'other' personality. I am, too, 'bugged' by the image-- though in a good way.
Jerome Belthrop 24-Aug-2001 at 00:29Fine Image
I like the mood of the picture given by the face coming out of the dark. The dark right is the key element for this. However, I'd crop the picture and make it vertical, leaving only the face and body.
Carlo Consoli 24-Aug-2001 at 05:38vert crop? non!
Ok, I don't what the appeal of a vertical crop would be. Personally, I think that the background adds a lot of meaning, or at least cues the "reader" of the photo to find some relationship between those supposedly opposed things, subject and background. I like this photo precisely because the background and subject each seem to inform a reading of the other. The dim, out of field background is perhaps what disturbs the viewer. Or, perhaps it is the gaze of our subject in the foreground, seemingly more at ease with the background than the viewer. Sorry, I can't help it, I am an english major. Great photo. Crop it and you lose the narrative and settle for an image that is too simplistically noir (imo). Great photo.
Mark Wells 30-Aug-2001 at 10:18