Brian Lingle
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On 1, I don't think his ear or the hat need to be so oof. The function of blurring the background is to help create separation of the subject from the background and make details in the bg less distracting. In this case, I found the extremely blurred ear and the hat a little distracting. Very nicely lit, though, and I like the b&w treatment.
Daniel, I think most people here enjoy crediting the source of their inspirations when it's clear what the source is. The concept of back-light eating away the edges of a form or figure has been around a long time. I saw examples of it with nudes a few years ago on FM. Very few photographers can claim that any concept they use originated with them. Hanson Fong is quick to make this disclaimer about his own work. We assimilate so many different concepts and techniques and images from so many sources that it's easy to get them muddled together and forget where the inspiration for a creation came from, if the inspiration even had a single source. I like to think the post I made titled, "How to Light a Kiss", provided a concept that I have seen incorporated by a lot of people on this forum, whereas I didn't see it used here at all before my post. However, I got the idea from a movie, after studying every kiss scene I came across in stills and movies for a couple of years, looking for what I thought worked best. That's not to say that everyone that incorporated that lighting into their kiss images saw my post. Some may have gotten it from someone else's post who saw my post. Maybe some were studying it the same way I was and they saw the same movie. We absorb all we can from every media source. In many cases it would be hard to credit the source of ideas we use and in most cases, we're seeing several examples of the idea from multiple sources. I don't think anyone here is intends to slight their fellow inspirators. If I ever do anything as distinctively derivative as posing a wedding party on fruit picking ladders, I'll get a kick out of crediting Sam. That said, I saw someone posing a family on a ladder in a house under construction a couple of years ago in the people forum.
Edited on Nov 26, 2008 at 05:41 AM · View previous versions
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