Nov 23, 2007, 20:39
Some shots from a local historic cemetery.
![[Image: Elmwood%20Cemetery%20022d.jpg]](http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images/upload/Elmwood%20Cemetery%20022d.jpg)
![[Image: Elmwood%20Cemetery%20028b.jpg]](http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images/upload/Elmwood%20Cemetery%20028b.jpg)
![[Image: Green%20Angel_blue%20sky.jpg]](http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images/upload/Green%20Angel_blue%20sky.jpg)
Nov 23, 2007, 21:37
Very interesting shots. I like the effect in the last one. It works well in this subject.
Nov 23, 2007, 22:44
Very interesting effect on number 2. Is this the same effect that you used on the picture of the park and the rocks?
Nov 25, 2007, 06:32
x3 for same questions as above. I do like your eye and think you have a uniquely gifted way of "seeing".
Nov 25, 2007, 07:19
no 3 looks surreal, what did you do to it?
nice shots, reminds me of some I took in New York last year....
Uli
nice shots, reminds me of some I took in New York last year....
Uli
Nov 25, 2007, 08:39
I thought I had commented on your pictures!!
Sorry I have been a bit distracted latele...
I like your pictures from the very first time I saw them. I like very much cemetery pictures, specially when you have statues like this one.
This is not very common in Germany, they have mainly square headstones, but very common in some cemeteries in Mexico. Unfortunately this kind of cemeteries are lessening day by day as people ask their family to be cremated and do something else with the ashes but not to go to the cemetery.
About your pictures, I like very much your work with colors, I think #2 is beautiful, it tells something to me.
Sorry I have been a bit distracted latele...
I like your pictures from the very first time I saw them. I like very much cemetery pictures, specially when you have statues like this one.
This is not very common in Germany, they have mainly square headstones, but very common in some cemeteries in Mexico. Unfortunately this kind of cemeteries are lessening day by day as people ask their family to be cremated and do something else with the ashes but not to go to the cemetery.
About your pictures, I like very much your work with colors, I think #2 is beautiful, it tells something to me.
Nov 25, 2007, 10:16
lovely shots Aine, we really need to meet up at elmwood one day and shoot ! There is something special about cemetery shots !
...... Shawn
...... Shawn
Nov 25, 2007, 10:39
Thanks so much everyone. The first two shots are pretty much right out of the camera, with a little adjustment of color and contrast, but no special effects. The third shot I used the Orton technique on. There was something surreal about that angel, and I wanted to portray that even more so in the photograph. Irma, you said #2 told you something â thatâs what I felt with that one too. It was over the grave of a child, and something about it touched me and made me wonder what the story was. Shawn, just name the day and Iâll meet you out there. Itâs one of my favorite places to photograph, and I know I havenât covered the whole place yet as many times as Iâve been out there.
Nov 25, 2007, 20:41
Number 2 is really beautiful.
Nov 26, 2007, 10:56
These are very well done. The crops and retouching really enhance the mood and subjects.