Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 5/30/03 1:01:54 PM, graham@geebeespaw.freeserve.co.uk writes: << > of gear...... > > Still catching up on > PAWS: > > Week 8-- Non-Leica--- Sensual Portrait-- > http://www.vonseidl.net/patchouli/KMVSPAWweek8.html > > Week7--Leica/ Noctilux---semi-nude > http://www.vonseidl.net/patchouli/KMVSPAWweek7.html > > Week6--Non-Leica--Fetish for Apples > http://www.vonseidl.net/patchouli/KMVSPAWweek6.html > > General Paw Index > http://www.vonseidl.net/patchouli/KMVSPAW.html > > > Feel free to post or email me any questions or comments. Thanks for looking. > > > Kim ========================================================================= Hi Kim, I find the photographs in this trio a mixed bag. Week 6: I am not keen on the look obtained with cross processing but I have to admire the will to experiment. The apple on the head I don't really understand, do Tell :-) Week 7: I'll be honest here, I find it difficult to give full attention to anything else in a photograph that has a naked woman in it. If the intent was to give prominence to the hands, rings and knees it would have worked better for me if they had been isolated with cropping rather than differential focus. Initially my eyeballs were in anti bokeh mode on the nudity rather than looking at the obvious focus of the picture. Week 8 : The best of the three in my opinion. A beautiful subject well posed and well shot. Sensual indeed. - --Graham >> Hi Graham, Thank you very much for taking the time to critique my work. #6 is admittedly experimental....and as pretty unsuccessful in many ways. The idea was to try and visually (without overtly) tie in the alluring temptation of both the apple and the woman's lips. I shot it intentionally trying to blowout a lot of her features (by lighting and exposure) so that mainly her eyes, the apple and her matching lips were the focus of the shots. She offers the apple (temptation) to the viewer and when not successful is left with the final shot. I chose cross-processed because the context is quasi gothic/fetish and I didn't want the coloration to be realistic. That was the theory behind the attempt in those specific shots. Week 7 the intent was this....I wanted to do a nude portrait. Meaning I've done other nudes where you could see (at least somewhat more clearly) the woman's body and the point of those shots were to explore form or to arouse purient interest. I didn't want to do that in this shot because I wanted this to be more a portrait on some level, mainly symbolic. In particular, the rings were very significant to this woman, they were given to her by her mother, who she has a very close relationship with. BUT, I also wanted to convey that this was a woman, and I wanted to offer the full sensuality of her curves and fleshiness without it reading sexuality. So I posed her and chose an aperture that one can see enough of her nudity, and feel the sensuality of her flesh, without it being "sexual." I wanted the body to be soft, sensual and almost dreamy, the rings clear. I suspect that how men and women view the shot might be different? I don't know. #8--was a straight up shot. A lot of what I've featured on PAW's so far is kinda....out there I guess. And so I just wanted to demonstrate that my choice of cross processing, infrared, selective focus and lighting are intentional (and though they might not be successful) they aren't the result of mistakes. Anyway, thank you again for your feedback. I appreciate it. Kim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html