Bob Turner wrote: > Roderick Chen - Blue - I can see and feel the 'Blue' in this one. Phil Penne wrote: > Just saw this shot in the Gallery - very powerful! As seemingly simple as it > is, every time I look at it I see something I never noticed before - another > shadow, or some other small nuance. > > Congratulations on a quiet photo that speaks volumes. > Gregory Fraser: > Roderick Chen (Blue) - What I find most interesting about this is the way > everything but the man, including the edge of the image, has an airbrush > appearance. Instead of being drawn directly to him through the use of lines > and shapes, I sort of float to him gradually as I search for definition at > the edges. The only hard shadows are on the man's face. The composition is > very well done also with the line of the back of the man's head and > shoulders matching the joint of the floor and wall behind him. Actually if > you move up from the bottom left corner along the shadow to the man's right > foot, up his body until you hit the wall-floor joint and along that line you > get a tilted, flattened 'S' and who can resist the old 'S' curve? These kind > of details really impress me. Hi everyone, I have never noticed the S shape before, thanks for pointing it out. I have always had a facination with selective focus and also the effect of the softar, soft focus filter. I do not own a Softar but I thought I could try to digitally recreate it while adding the selective focus as well. Being the first attempt, I may have overdone it a little. Thanks for all the reviews, Regards, Roderick
