-- charles (charles@chho.com.au), July 08, 2001

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yep i keep tabs on this site but am too scared to post because i can't seem to get it right... what did i do here?

-- charles (charles@chho.com.au), July 08, 2001.

Hiya. The URL you used links to the picture page not the pic. Here's your pic.

http://www.usefilm.com/photographs/gallery/3044.jpg

-- Fred Sun (redsky3@yahoo.com), July 08, 2001.

Don't take this the wrong way, but to me it looks a little too slick. The composition, lighting and exposure are spot on, but there's a stiffness about her gaze and the way she's holding her right hand that makes me feel that this is a posed person trying a bit too hard to look natural. It looks like something from a lifestyle magazine, with beautiful people pretending to be ordinary.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), July 10, 2001.

not sure what to say struan, it wasn't posed (none of my shots are) and well beautiful people, i'll pass that on to ruth - she will be flattered. maybe you are reacting to the designer junk in the bg. this is a new book on hcb BTW that she was admiring.

-- charles (charles@chho.com.au), July 11, 2001.

I was just trying to say more than "very nice". I like to say why I feel the way I do when I comment here, rather than just handing out a bouquet or a brickbat. You didn't give any idea as to the purpose of the photo, so I judged it as a piece of pure visual theatre.

There's an implied intimacy about the pose and lighting, but Ruth looks a litlle bit stiff and posed. as if someone had said, "look into that book while I take a picture of you" and took slightly too long about it. That stops me being drawn into the image in the way I suspect you wanted. I am too aware that this is a photograph.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), July 11, 2001.