Still-Life Images, 2012

[Ramiro Elena]

It is incredible how much a photograph can change with a different perspective. This is more it.

[chassis]

Christopher, another great one. I love the jaunty tilt of the bowl with flour. It would be interesting to know if each of these objects in the image have a personal significance to you, in the sense that you called the image "your valentine". In my own work I try to include elements of a person's personality when I make an image of them or for them.

[Mark Sawyer]

I like both versions, Christopher. As always, lovely composition and lighting, and having worked a while in still life, it's interesting to see the process as someone works their way through an image.

What surprised me in the first version is the amount of what I'm guessing is bromine drag coming off the left side of the wire vessel. I never cared for stand development in Rodinal for just that reason, but in some rare instances, it seems to work in an image, like the one in question.

[cjbroadbent]

I'm very grateful for your response.
Perspective with a shortish lens is quite expressive. A an inch or two changes everything. The bromine drag effect was a surprise. It turned out to be the filament of a plain old light bulb I was using on the background to separate the basket. That was corrected with frost.
Most of the symbols lying around in my recent stuff evoke a ageing spinster harking back to one unforgettable fling. I always have somebody in my head while knocking things together.
Examples:

[Jim Cole]

Hey Christopher,

I wanna see that last one posted bigger. Looks too good for the tiny size.

[cjbroadbent]

Jim, I must have posted the argyrotype of this subject before. This version is 4x5 Tmax double scanned. The little old lady and her fling thing.
I'll bore again tonight, I've just done the final final on the valentine.

[Jim Cole]

Jim, I must have posted the argyrotype of this subject before. This version is 4x5 Tmax double scanned. The little old lady and her fling thing.
I'll bore again tonight, I've just done the final final on the valentine.

Christopher,

Thanks for reposting that. As I expected, this is a treat of subject matter, tonality and lighting. My eyes wandered around in this composition for a very long time. This is exceptional, which, of course, is not at all unusual for you.

[Monty McCutchen]

I never tire of coming across your images Christopher, my only nit is that you don't post enough, portraits, still lives more please.

Monty

[cjbroadbent]

More room for a lonely atmosphere. Cleaned up the symbol logic. Just in time to send it off for the 14th. Sorry for hogging.

[jcoldslabs]

Sometimes drinking your tea becomes secondary when a shaft of light enters the kitchen at just the right angle. By the time I got all the equipment out and made the image I had to boil more water.

4x5 Pacemaker Speed Graphic
Aero-Ektar 178mm f/2.5 wide open
Polaroid type 51 negative (expired)



Jonathan