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SaMiHa Jawad
{K:1447} 9/3/2009
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Balorama very beautiful
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aZiZ aBc
{K:28345} 3/17/2009
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AMAZING, ..
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RC. Dany
{K:64104} 3/16/2009
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Excellent .
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Marco Donatiello
{K:12147} 9/30/2006
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Stupenda...ottima composizione e realizzazione!
Complimenti!
Ciao
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Kambiz K
{K:37420} 4/20/2006
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Are they electric poles?
L O L
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Kambiz K
{K:37420} 4/20/2006
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indeed it is a kind of strange scary mood to be there in the middle of no-where-land!
Are they electric poles?
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Kiarang Alaei
{K:49415} 4/12/2006
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Wow!
well deserved.
congratulate to you Mark Hamilton for reach to this high quality composition and idea & congratulate to the staff team for choosing it as an award.
very moody & splendid!
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Laurie McIntosh
{K:958} 4/5/2006
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Hi Mark, Roger, Ian, Rina,
I'd like to just add my vote here... but before I do, my first thought was Colin McCahon when I leaned over someone's shoulder and saw this image for the first time. And that's got to be a good thing.
My opinion is... there's what I say and there's what I do.
I tend to be a bit of a frame-it-up-in-the-camera, shoot-it and that's-what-goes-up-on-usefilm sort of photographer. I don't know if that's because I'm a purist at heart, or because I don't have the patience or the imagination to sit down and play with the bytes in Photoshop.
But amongst the many photographers whose work over the years I've enjoyed are many who would not think twice about burning and dodging to accentuate (or maybe, just correct) elements in an image. Like Mark, I don't think of it as a modern trend; in fact, when I see it I think of the silent movies. It provides an old time feel to me. And a tocuh of the through a glass darkly, also.
I guess the question is, when does a photo cease to be a photo and become something else.
I mean, if you think about the way Ansel Adams played with the photo plane, light don't do that either.
One thing digital photography has done is made it easier for the lay person to bring a photo into their computer, and once it's there, software like Picasa makes doodling with it just a couple of clicks away.
I think it's leading to a renaissance in the art form, even as (ironically) it's contributing to the death of it's stock medium for the last hundred years. EVERYONE's a photographer these days. What's going to stay the same is the good ones will still stand out from the crowd. It's just a much bigger crowd now. But it allows us lesser lights (me, I mean) to fix up the things I never seem to able to quite get right. And by extension, why not a bit of vignetting?
Sorry. I'm rambling. What I mean to say is that music is GOOD and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.
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Mark Hamilton
{K:8387} 4/5/2006
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Hi Ian
Thanks for your thoughts. Vignettes are nothing new and I don't know if I would go as far as calling them a fad. I used them way back in the bad ol' days of the wet darkroom edge burning they called it.
I find vignettes aesthetically pleasing they have the ability to retain the viewers attention within the frame. I love them and think that most photographs are improved by them. But as with anything in art subjectiveness comes into play there is no right or wrong.
Technique in photography is important but I like to place more emphasis on intention.
Mark
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Mark Hamilton
{K:8387} 4/5/2006
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Hi Rina
Thanks for that I did a google search on him and recognised some of his work.
Cheers
Mark
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/5/2006
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Peter Eastway is an Australian photographer with ideas not dissimilar to yours actually Mark... sorry for butting in, am following the debate with avid interest.
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Mark Hamilton
{K:8387} 4/4/2006
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Hi Roger
Thanks for your thoughts it's nice to receive something other than nice capture.
Is this image a photograph or an illustration. I hope that it is both plus some other things as well. I make photographs as a form of self expression and they are often a response to an event, situation or location. Some of my photographs / illustrations are real places and events others are totally fictitious but are still valid to me because the are an emotional response to something.
It's true that natural light doesn't behave this way but that is missing the point I'm not trying to document what is real in front of me if I was I wouldn't use my camera. Photography by it's very design is a lie. When I wake up in the morning the world is presented to me in colour not B&W. Colour film has a bias, some are saturated some are neutral in tone and some are balanced to a specific colour temperature. I can choose to include or exclude elements within the frame to totally change the message. If I want real I have to go and experience it first hand.
Light does though behave like this with a camera. A classic example is my Holga. The image circle produced by the lens is not big enough to cover the entire frame of a 120 film as a result the final image is produced with a vignette. My 15mm wide angle lens has noticeable light fall of at the edges which also produces a vignette.
So I guess what I'm trying say is that I was driving the roads were empty as was the landscape. It was getting dark these three poles appeared on the horizon in the middle of nowhere. They had strong religious connotations and it got me thinking about lots of things............ just not vignetting.
Not sure who Peter Eastway is but I'm sure he is a nice chap.
Thanks again for your thoughts Roger it's appreciated.
Mark
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 4/4/2006
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The clouds are floating across this image again. Beautiful drift to the left past the posts along the tunnel created by the crop and the vignette.
Wind does that.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 4/4/2006
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Gidday Mark, Gidday Rog,
I was in the states once, San diego. I told them how frightened I was by the growing homogeneity of the planet, suddenly all over the planet every new suburban developement looks the same and could be anywhere, stripping off the topsoil and planting wharehouses all over it. Starbucks... McDonalds...
Heis not phased and said "it has something to tell us and when we get sick of it in a couple of hundred years we'll come up with an answer.
It is this way for colour burn vignettes. All over the place but what the hey, it pulls my eye in? I know I'm particpating in a fad whenever I do it.
You raise an interesting point for me Roger.
Light does do this if you have a primitive enough lens. Perhaps this remembers that.
Perhaps also it's a product of the internet. An internal frame to put within the rectangle defined by jpeg.
There's a hundred good reasons for it, I'm guessing. Unlike you guys no ones put their faith into me to draw someones eye.
Mark?
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/4/2006
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hmm not sure what a DoD is but despite the symbolism to Calvary and the proximity to Euan McLeod (whom I greatly admire..) its all just a bit Peter Eastway to me.. I mean at the end of day (the beginning or smack dang in the middle) for that matter) light just doesn't behave like this I mean is it photography or illustration ... The Light Made Us (a lecture I once delivered) makes me challenge myself and every other photographer for that matter around and think about Maris Rusis and think hang on..haven't we forgotten something ? and in spite of the fact that two people (whos work I quite like)here Rina & Tosh have commented in the positive I am holding decision at this time.. I am reminded of the liner notes on the back of Super Session Kooper Bloomfield & Stills.. where the writer says Still's guitar playing reminds us that the wah wah pedal is not a war toy.. I think its appropriate will consult with tosh
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Tracey MacLeod
{K:3244} 3/24/2006
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sweet! How did i miss this yep, the walking tunnel vision has taken over! Wonderful image Mark!!! Love the over all darkness and the crosses are it's light!~ Crop really enhances this. Can't wait to get my rolls done from yesterday.... I was doing some of the same.... hopefully my turn out as well!!! Take Care TGIF!!! Tracey
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Mark Hamilton
{K:8387} 3/20/2006
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hahahaha I'm not so sure about that but thanks for the kind words.
Mark
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Weston Dru
{K:3243} 3/19/2006
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Hi Mark!
You are just about to become living legend of UF.
Excellent work!!!
So simple and powerfull.
Regards
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 3/13/2006
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uhhh mark.. favorites.. and stop!
only for to see..
roby
7+++
congrats for the DOD
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osvaldo rima
{K:6862} 3/13/2006
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Hi Mark, amazing colors work !!
Comliments
Cheers
Os
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Steve Aronoff
{K:18393} 3/13/2006
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I love this moody panorama, Mark. It's a great choice for Donor Image of the Day. Congratulations!!! You've hit the lighting just right, and the composition is perfect. Well done!
Steve
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Janet Marie ;-)
{K:-2076} 3/12/2006
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Beautiful evocative image Mark; congratulations on making the front page!
Cheers
Janet Marie ;-)
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Dubravko Grakalic
{K:25235} 3/12/2006
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just splendid...panorama crop is great here!
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Mark Hamilton
{K:8387} 3/12/2006
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Thanks Ian
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Mark Hamilton
{K:8387} 3/12/2006
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Thank you Gayle.
It was a nice surprise to find it on the front page.
Take care
Mark ;-)
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Gayle's Eclectic Photos
{K:91109} 3/12/2006
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Just back to say congrats for FP DOD...glad more will see this moody pano!
regards,gayle
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Mark Hamilton
{K:8387} 3/12/2006
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Thanks Rina.
Mark :-)
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 3/12/2006
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Golgotha... Congrats for the DoD Mark! Very well deserved :)
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Jeanette Hägglund
{K:59855} 3/12/2006
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CONGRATS!
Jeanette
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Ognjan Schalamanov
{K:-83} 3/12/2006
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Superb!!!
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Ronald Ford
{K:304} 3/12/2006
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DOD award is well deserved. Great shot
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 3/11/2006
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What a beautiful big panel this would be!
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Jeanette Hägglund
{K:59855} 3/11/2006
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So moody and so suggestive - i feel dragged into the image and my imagination awakes!
Jeanette
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Femke de Wit
{K:6020} 3/11/2006
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This one is great Mark, very well done.Very strong and cropped well. Femke
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Paolo Corradini
{K:59552} 3/11/2006
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wow speechless in panoramic view i can to be there!
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Gayle's Eclectic Photos
{K:91109} 3/11/2006
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This one puts the "oo" in Moody!...i prefer the poles in a paddock reference and love the minimalism...great ominous sky,too
regards,gayle
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Sergio Cárdenas
{K:25028} 3/10/2006
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Amazing!!
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Manu
{K:13082} 3/10/2006
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Looks like a good original shot, given the Hamilton-esque treatment and taken into a different world...love the darkness and sense of space...good one ol' chap..!
Manu
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Ash
{K:9427} 3/10/2006
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Incredible lighting, it really creates a dramatic mood. I like the panoramic layout. Nice capture.
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Galal El Missary
{K:84569} 3/10/2006
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wonderful mood , Great composition & tones , well taken .
Galal
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luisa vassallo
{K:28230} 3/10/2006
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in my favorite!!!
fantastic!
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 3/10/2006
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great panorama with wonderful DOF, great sharpness and colors , all of the best my friend.
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