| camera | PENTAX K100D Super |
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| aperture | f/6.7 |
| sensitivity | ISO400 |
| focal length | 180.0mm |
| resolution | 1657x1369 pixels |
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Lady on a bench
I hope this lady won't mind me showing her picture. She looked so content sitting on this bench on a warm spring day. I have spent a lot of time deciding how to present this and cropped it various ways and then thought about black and white or twiddled in all sorts of ways. Then I decided to simplify it into the elements of the title. The lady and the bench
comments (23)
How you have ended up with this seems perfect to me, Bill! The shady lighting is delicious against all the black background. I really am loving this! The colors of the blue and purple together also work a punch for me. The way she is hanging on to her purse, as though it were another appendage, brings back memories of my mom.
Bill Phillips: Thanks Ginnie. I had to think for a minute..what purse? Then I realised...handbag!
Absolutely magnificent, Bill. A real quality to the photograph from the way it gentle seeps out from the screen.
Perfect
Bill Phillips: Thanks very much Paul...I'm so pleased this seems to have worked
Bill this is very special photo.I think it's because of the black out around her.I like this very much.
Bill Phillips: The background was very busy, a big hedge. Delighted you like it vintage.
Top marks Bill,love this.
Bill Phillips: Thanks very much Michael.
You have achieved a brilliant outcome, Bill.
Bill Phillips: Thanks Ray, I really appreciate your comment!
A very beautiful result of your work and deliberations! I like this quiet scene, the totally absorbed lady who seems to have dipped into her fiction-book-world so that nothing around her can disturb her and she is really content ("rundum zufrieden"). I espcially love the warm spring-lighting and I would like to sit in the sun like she!
Bill Phillips: Thank you Philine...and well done to Germany winning (just!) last night
There is a lovely soft, dreamy feel to this. I can almost feel the warm sunshine on my skin. She seems absorbed in a world of her own. Quality stuff, Bill!
Ingrid
Bill Phillips: Thanks Ingrid. I think you have summed it up very well. I'm always trying these blurred layers and I think this one has worked.
Love Paul's "seeps from the screen" because it describes it perfectly. Very well done Bill.
Bill Phillips: Thanks Aussie...I think I prefer Ingrid's soft and dreamy
Lovely shot Bill - she looks very content.
Bill Phillips: Thanks Bernie...she does indeed
No book as I now recognize, perhaps a letter from the grandson or... I like the quiet behaviour of the reading lady and the calm atmosphere- letter-light-lady!
Bill Phillips: She might have been reading her electricity bill and been in shock!
This great photo brought back some memories Bill. Getting family letters would send me off to quiet spot to read, and reread, and reread again, all the family trivia. That was in the days before email and facebook, of course.
Bill Phillips: I suppose the art of letter writing is nearly dead. To be honest, I never could write letters!
Surely the wench and the bench has a better ring to it, Bill. Goos colors btw.
Bill Phillips: NO IT DOES NOT!
This is absolutely superb Bill. The light play is axceptional here!
Bill Phillips: Thank you very much Richard.
Wow Bill ... now you are moving into the realms of the stuff I churn out ;-)
I think this works really well... and I'm intrigued to imagine it in black and white. One tiny uncertainty though... I wonder which is the protagonist? ... The bench has the sharpest bit of focus ... I'm wondering whether the lady's face should have had that honour. But maybe you wanted her to be suggested in a slightly dreamy mood. keep them coming Bill. richard
Bill Phillips: Good point Richard. Certainly I wanted the lady soft, but perhaps I should have softened the bench more.
well you made the right choice for sure Bill, superb capture in every way conceivable, top tier stuff matey
Bill Phillips: Thank you Sir Tim of Leeds.
This is a great capturem, I dont think you could have asked for much more if it was posed. The lighting really makes it for me.
Bill Phillips: Thanks Nig. The light was through foliage and although I guess it is a bit burnt in places I didn't think that mattered too much
You've excelled today Bill, lovely lighting and atmosphere. Even the king of twiddle doesn't always need to twiddle to get a winner.
Bill Phillips: Thanks Brian. I can't claim this as straight out of the camera to be honest. There are a few layers!
Superbly presented Bill very soft great lighting on the subject well spotted ad captured.
Bill Phillips: Thank you very much Scotia
The lighting is superb, she would be flattered if she knew, just a quiet momnet in the park.
Bill Phillips: Thanks Astrid. I'd like to think she would approve!
I like the bright detail in this offset with the deep shadows. Lovely!
Bill Phillips: Thanks very much Alan.
Sehr gut
Bill Phillips: Danke Sir Art
THIS IS SUCH AN EVOCATIVE STUDY- LOVE THE LIGHT.
Bill Phillips: Thanks very much. I'm pleased you like it
Beautiful...
Bill Phillips: Thanks David. I was rather pleased with this one.
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