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Eduardo Rosas
{K:868} 3/22/2007
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Just...GREAT!
Congrats!
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Wayne Winsauer
{K:7331} 3/13/2007
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Love it Patrick!
The tone is just spot on!
Very dreamy and whimsical!
Great, great image!
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Leonie Fitzpatrick
{K:40551} 3/6/2007
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Superb Patrick...:) Polly was certainly worth re-cycling... The mood is very *lost love* as Annemette said...:)
My first thought was like you had shot this through a heavy plastic sheet... but now I've read your explanation to Jan I know better ~~GRIN~~...
This is truly wonderful Sir...:)
Excellent...:)
Onie...
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Iman Fouad
{K:12295} 3/5/2007
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Exellent shot,so dreamy, you did it well Patrick.
Iman
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Sandra Anderson
{K:5837} 3/4/2007
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Before reading the technique comments, this photo actually made me think it was an old photo taken through a train window, many years ago...so ethereal.
S
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yehia el alaily
{K:1251} 3/4/2007
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i like the hazy look
yehia
www.marayah.com
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Patrick Crowther
{K:13393} 3/3/2007
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It was SO difficult to do because I had to hand-hold the camera as the slightest movement completely changed what I saw through the glass. I got one workable shot from 30. Literally a centimetre right or left resulted in a totally different distortion... a tripod didn't work as I needed to be able to respond to the slightest shift in posture of the lovely Polly... she had the patience of a saint. The idea to use rippled glass I ripped off from the man I consider to be the finest fashion photographer that ever lived, Erwin Blumenfeld...
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Jan Hoffman
{K:39467} 3/3/2007
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Very clever idea; I may experiment with the technique. I might have some old, rippled glass in my workshop. Thanks for the tip. I had assumed it was done with a Photo-shop filter but most likely your approach would give you more control.
--Jan
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Patrick Crowther
{K:13393} 3/3/2007
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Hi Jan... I didn't actually apply a soft effect... this was shot through rippled glass and the lens was defocused slightly at a wide aperture. If you look at my shot 'Frog' (http://www.usefilm.com/image/1237686.html) it's done in the same way, but in that instance the lens was focused on the glass with a small aperture.
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Jan Hoffman
{K:39467} 3/3/2007
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Patrick -- Very dreamy and beautiful. As I understand it, you applied the soft effect because of the unwanted effort to rehabilitate the portrait otherwise. That is an idea I will put in my book for future reference. The results are outstanding and you get extra credit for recycling! :)
--Best regards, Jan
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Liz Wallis
{K:26133} 3/3/2007
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wow ...Patrick, this is beautiful. It has such a wonderful moody and dreamy quality. Nice soft tones and lovely light..to me it is great :)
Cheers
Liz
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Patrick Crowther
{K:13393} 3/3/2007
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Well, you hit the proverbial nail right on the head yet again, Annemette!
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 3/3/2007
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Amazingly beautiful and dreamy looking like an old love lost in time and space. So soft and suggestive.
Best wishes
Annemette
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