Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:00 AM 7/26/2005, Don Dory wrote: >Richard, >This could be a complex image that requires more than a web jpeg to >evaluate. > >My initial reaction is that the face going totally dark is a good >thing as it adds to the why? of the image. I don't have enough >knowledge of swordplay to say whether her grip is accurate or not, I >suspect not. Hi Don, this is part of the last series I posted, "The blade, candles and a ritual." The series is actually done for LUG print exchange where the theme is Wind (this is not the picture I picked for that theme). I want to do an unconventional interpretation of Wind. I was playing with the ideas of sword (symbolize Wind in both the Tarot and Chinese symbolism), candles, incense smokes and hair being blown, and may be even the symbolism of martial arts, chi, etc. We gathered all the elements together and of course nothing worked the ways I thought it would :-) Candle lights being too weak, incense smokes could hardly be seen... We played around for a while nevertheless. To answer your questions - the face being in the dark is intentional as I want to give a feeling of mystery, the series (here again is the URL: http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3098 ) was done in the sequence of a ritual. The sword grip is fairly accurate - while my wife doesn't have katana training per se, she has 11 years+ of martial arts training, including weapons like Chinese swords and Bo staff. >As to lighting, I believe that a stronger sense of window light ie a >greater transition in light to dark from the right would be stronger. The lighting definitely did not work as well as I have planned. Originally it was supposed to be candles only but then I will need 30, 40 candles :-) These are taken at 2AM in the morning so I used a hot light. I played with flash a bit but didn't like it as much. This is definitely something to work on more.... >But the more important question, what do you want to do with this and >does the image convey the plot that you intend? I think so. Can definitely be improved on many levels. Thanks for your comments. >Don >don.dory@gmail.com > >On 7/26/05, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote: > > http://www.dragonsgate.net/photosite/PaW2005/images/29_EPSN2019.jpg > > > > Comments welcome. Epson R-D1, Ultron 28/1.9 ASA 400 1/30th @F2 // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)