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[ludwigii]

A photo that I had never seen of Alfred Schnittke composing at the piano

[Sergeant Rock]

Found in the middle of a roll of Tri-X

Nice. I didn't think I'd see Toots again.

Sarge

[NikF]

Nice. I didn't think I'd see Toots again.

Sarge

Thanks Sarge. It was in the middle of a roll of other things and so I didn't expect to see her either. It's just a grab shot that worked. There's almost a whole case of 120 taken of her over about four years. Developing that is a different proposition entirely.
Anyway, I spy on your shelf what appears to be a shot of Mrs. Rock. Good stuff.

[Mirror Image]

A photo that I had never seen of Alfred Schnittke composing at the piano

Great! I've never seen that photo either. Keep them coming!

[Ken B]

Great! I've never seen that photo either.

I'm sure you haven't.  It was your avatar last fall.

[ludwigii]

Great! I've never seen that photo either. Keep them coming!

Hello ? Is John there ? Don't speak too badly of my violin concertos, thanks !

[Mirror Image]

I'm sure you haven't.  It was your avatar last fall.

Hah!

Hello ? Is John there ? Don't speak too badly of my violin concertos, thanks !

Hah! Another cool photo of one of my musical heroes.

[anothername]

Exceptional music,  beautiful cover.

[NikF]

On the wall above my desk my current avatar image used to reside between photos of Rocky Marciano and Louis Armstrong.




e: after this it's back to my crumpled old face.

[Sergeant Rock]

I spy on your shelf what appears to be a shot of Mrs. Rock. Good stuff.

Thanks. I like it even though it was the wrong film for the light source (I didn't have a filter to correct it). It works better as a monochrome image. I posted a b&w version a couple of years ago in the photography thread:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,23022.msg846357.html#msg846357   



Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

On the wall above my desk my current avatar image used to reside between photos of Rocky Marciano and Louis Armstrong.

Love it.

e: after this it's back to my crumpled old face.

No! No! Give us more Toots!   

Sarge

[NikF]

Thanks. I like it even though it was the wrong film for the light source (I didn't have a filter to correct it). It works better as a monochrome image. I posted a b&w version a couple of years ago in the photography thread:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,23022.msg846357.html#msg846357   

Sarge

Yeah, it works as black and white. The first thing I look at in a photo of woman is how she has posed her hands. It can be a visual telltale as far as comfort is concerned and I find if the hands aren't right then the pose (and everything else) usually misses. But here her hands are working and she looks good. She looks all good.

[NikF]

Love it.



No! No! Give us more Toots!   

Sarge

Thanks Sarge. And if I ever develop or scan or take stuff from the TIFF files of her you'll be the first to know.

[North Star]

On the wall above my desk my current avatar image used to reside between photos of Rocky Marciano and Louis Armstrong.

Love it.

No! No! Give us more Toots!   

Sarge

Yeah, it works as black and white. The first thing I look at in a photo of woman is how she has posed her hands. It can be a visual telltale as far as comfort is concerned and I find if the hands aren't right then the pose (and everything else) usually misses. But here her hands are working and she looks good. She looks all good.

Apart from suggesting that the point about the importance of hands in portraiture is equally important when photographing men, I can only say I agree with all said here.

[NikF]

The reason I singled out woman and not men for attention as far as the hands are concerned, is because I find that often men (or the photographer! ) can get away with it. While not every man has naturally boulderlike fists, they can more readily lend themselves to appearing as clumsy lumps or wide, expansive paddles - and that could seem more manly.

And not every woman has such long, elegant fingers as Mrs.Rock has in that shot, but if she had them flatter or was making a fist and gripping, it could be less forgiving. Kind of the same as why it's generally more usual to have harder lighting on a man's face as opposed to a woman. Or if you really want to push the boat out, why it's more acceptable to have a woman's chin over her (near) shoulder but a man's pulled away from his shoulder (unless youre shooting some kind of non-threatening boy band stuff. Seriously, that's where it's at. )

Feel free to disagree. Obviously all any of us can do is speak from our own experience.

[North Star]

The reason I singled out woman and not men for attention as far as the hands are concerned, is because I find that often men (or the photographer! ) can get away with it. While not every man has naturally boulderlike fists, they can more readily lend themselves to appearing as clumsy lumps or wide, expansive paddles - and that could seem more manly.

And not every woman has such long, elegant fingers as Mrs.Rock has in that shot, but if she had them flatter or was making a fist and gripping, it could be less forgiving. Kind of the same as why it's generally more usual to have harder lighting on a man's face as opposed to a woman. Or if you really want to push the boat out, why it's more acceptable to have a woman's chin over her (near) shoulder but a man's pulled away from his shoulder (unless youre shooting some kind of non-threatening boy band stuff. Seriously, that's where it's at. )

Feel free to disagree. Obviously all any of us can do is speak from our own experience.

All good points.

[NikF]

My current avatar was taken late at night as part of a demo for a lens I was selling to some dude. He wanted to compare it with another of similar focal length. In the end he bought the more expensive of the two.
The photo itself is only notable because I was sitting in the middle of the road at about 02:00 and someone came out of their house to ask if I was okay.

(I was just talking to ol' North Star there about a 'loose frame'...    )

[Bogey]

Stinking cool photo.  Gives me that wonderful noir feeling.

[NikF]

Stinking cool photo.  Gives me that wonderful noir feeling.

That's kind of you to say so. Thanks.
Bonus: and it's the first time I've ever had something I've done described as "Stinking cool".