Results 1 to 9 of 9

Thread: Alone

  1. #1

    Join Date
    May 2018
    Location
    I live in Russia, in a rural place on the river Volga
    Posts
    76
    Real Name
    Vladimir

    Alone

    Alone

  2. #2
    Shadowman's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    WNY
    Posts
    36,716
    Real Name
    John

    Re: Alone

    Very nice, this must've been the shot of the building you referenced in the haunted shot.

  3. #3

    Join Date
    May 2018
    Location
    I live in Russia, in a rural place on the river Volga
    Posts
    76
    Real Name
    Vladimir

    Re: Alone

    Exactly. That is the haunted building
    Alone

  4. #4

    Join Date
    Aug 2014
    Location
    Melbourne, Australia
    Posts
    3,005
    Real Name
    Ole

    Re: Alone

    I really like this picture. Your choice of black and white is a good one.
    Cheers Ole

  5. #5
    Moderator Donald's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    Glenfarg, Scotland
    Posts
    21,402
    Real Name
    Just add 'MacKenzie'

    Re: Alone

    The concept and vision behind 'Alone' is brilliant. I wonder, however, if we are struggling to see the expressions of the girl's face and if she was a bit more predominant in the frame that would help. I am thinking that you probably wanted to emptiness around her and the house, but I wonder if that could still have been achieved by cropping at the bottom and on the right. A suggested crop is, at the bottom to slightly below her feet and, on the right, just to the right of that 'lump' to the right of the telegraph pole.

  6. #6

    Join Date
    May 2018
    Location
    I live in Russia, in a rural place on the river Volga
    Posts
    76
    Real Name
    Vladimir

    To Donald

    Thank you, Donald, for your suggestions.

  7. #7

    Join Date
    May 2018
    Location
    I live in Russia, in a rural place on the river Volga
    Posts
    76
    Real Name
    Vladimir

    Re: To Donald

    del
    Last edited by zebra; 27th May 2018 at 04:22 PM.

  8. #8
    Moderator Manfred M's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2012
    Location
    Ottawa, Canada
    Posts
    22,158
    Real Name
    Manfred Mueller

    Re: Alone

    The image reminds me very much of an old photograph that I might have seen in my mother's collection; faded yellow paper, a high level of vignetting from the lens, low contrast and limited tonal range. Based on your other work, I assume that you have done all this on purpose.

    If this was your goal, then you have been reasonably effective at achieving it. My main suggestion is that cameras and lenses of that era tended to have a fairly small maximum aperture and the film would be large format (contact prints, rather than enlargements were quite common), so the image tended to be relatively focuses throughout, so the depth of field is too shallow to be "vintage". The same issue applies to the sharpness of the girl; again, the simple lenses (Zeiss Tessar or Cooke Triplet) of that era would not have rendered the girl as sharply as she is shown here.


    Alone

  9. #9

    Join Date
    May 2018
    Location
    I live in Russia, in a rural place on the river Volga
    Posts
    76
    Real Name
    Vladimir

    Re: Alone

    Thank you,Manfred/

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •