Still-Life Images, 2012

[cjbroadbent]

I'm not a high-key person and I tend to light WYSIWYG and use black gobbos on the sides. I would be lost rebuilding shadows from scratch.
This is what it looks like, with a couple of adjustments from yestersday, plus a long straight tail on the curve to contain the reflections. Just to confuse things, this version is not 'stand' but under-exposed, short development with continuous agitation in Rodinal 1:30.

Update .... Picasa has vanished, pictures too.

[mdm]

This just looks flat to me. I like the highlight on the lemon and the jug and the queens egg slice. I dont think beautiful and perfect are the same thing. Who would describe Atget as a perfectionist, yet few have produced more beautiful and lasting (in a cultural rather than archival sense) prints. In 200 years time, will a Penn cigarette butt be more valued than an Atget shop front? Not that the Penn has no value as art.

[Tom J McDonald]

Watch out, that lemon's jumping off the screen!
Very nice arrangement CJ.

[mdm]

I must admit its quite nice too.

[Ken Lee]

I'm not a high-key person and I tend to light WYSIWYG and use black gobbos on the sides.

Sorry, I was unclear and my humor was lame. I don't know anything about lights and lighting: I had to Google the word gobbo.

[Petzval Paul]

I really like the lighting here. The low-key feel to it that reminds me of something very vintage, like an Henri Le Secq or something. It also has a sort of sober, 'rainy day' atmosphere that I find so attractive. Please keep 'em coming!

[Mark Sawyer]

Sun going down on my windowsill last night, three wet plates, each about a half hour apart...







Nothing exciting. Maybe if it had pixies...

[chassis]

Cool Mark. I like the last one best.

[Leigh]

OK, Mark... Where is she?

Was she bad, and you sent her to bed without her supper (or refused to take her pic)?

- Leigh

[Mark Sawyer]

Cool Mark. I like the last one best.

Thank you; I go back and forth, then think they belong side-by-side...

OK, Mark... Where is she?

Was she bad, and you sent her to bed without her supper (or refused to take her pic)?

And what makes you think I'm the one in charge???