Ellen

Lovely!

Nice feel - that fairy at the bottom of the garden sorta thing! Like the light and the way you are drawn to the girl!

Would you be willing to share your printing process? You are making beautiful prints with a lovely feel to them.

Cheers,
Bill

@Bill:
This one wasn't that hard. I'm a big fan on Jock Sturges and I read somewhere that he usually (eventhough he doesn't use a meter) expose the Tri-X 320 to 100 and underdevelop the negativ in HC-110.

Myself I use a spot meter and always meters the skin-tones and place them in zon Vi, but I have set my meter to 200 instead of 320, so my blackness will be a bit lighter than it should be. Then I normal develop (at least in this one). This will make sure that I have good coverage in the dark areas, but the light areas will be a bit whiter too.

I mainly do the dark areas in the image and dodge or burn (I have never learned which is which) the light areas. You may see that they lack a bit in contrast (which will happend since less light hits that spot).

Then I feel that a good image is not just develop-technique, but you have to have good models and I'm very thankful for my models.

/ Marcus

Thanks Marcus, your dodging and burning skills are brilliant.

Cheers,
Bill

This is wonderful.
I want to see an actual print.

Taichi

Exceptional.

really really beautiful work...

The focus and depth of field in this image combined with the composition itself make for a really striking photo.

Very envious!

I'm not quite sure how I haven't noticed your work in the past. Very well done.