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Response to Mr Tapas

from Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se)
Thanks Tony. I still find it hard to seperate what I remember from taking a shot and the image itself. If you don't see enough nervousness I suppose I'll just *have* to go back to Madrid and try again. Bummer.

The out of focus bar clutter was somewhat forced on me by the light level, but it was one of those forced choices that I like to think I would have made anyway. The framing and viewpoint were careful: I wanted a sense of him being hemmed in on all sides while keeping his face as the obvious centre of interest.

The colours are funky. Portra seems to give very noticeable colour shifts in mixed lighting, but because the saturated colours don't block up, you still get lots of usable detail. The result can be fun. Here, the look is strengthened by my balancing the whole image to get his skin and shirt 'right', and I think it adds to the feeling of dislocation. A less stylised snap is shown below, balanced mid-way between the various light sources (on my monitor anyway):

Jesper in his element
(posted 8620 days ago)

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