On 11 Nov 2004 at 13:40, Anthony Farr wrote: > I'll make a big guess that Rob took the shot at "Sculpture By The Sea" at > Bondi Beach. If that's the case, the seaside light (with lots of > backscatter from the sand and surf) could give this lighting quality which > looks a little like fill flash. Looking at the sky it's a patchy > near-overcast that can also give an effect like open cloudy day shadows but > with > sunny highlights. We often see this in Sydney. Or Rob might have savagely > bent > the curves to lighten up the shadows.
Well spotted, it wasn't however on the sand it was just below the park where many of the larger sculptures reside. No flash was used but the sky was bright overcast and the sun was in front of the subject so I had to screw about to get any detail in the shadow areas. The grass around them was pretty trampled so I elected to de-saturate to reduce it's impact. The problem was that I had to pick a strange colour balance to differentiate the b/g from the subject. > But I do agree that it looks almost unnatural, a little like an Ilford XP2 > shot in its tonality though I'm sure Rob would have used his *istD The > sharpness isn't up to his usual high standard. Ah well, we can't all be perfect all the time, LOL. Following are details of the exhibition: http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/ And I found someone elses pic of the same scene: http://www.photo.net.au/sculptures2005/pages/Sculptures%202005%20066_jpg.htm Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
