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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 12/7/2005
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John, You're absolutely right about the full frame. I got so attached to the square that I sacrificed the rest of the room for staying inside the square. Thanks for your comment! I'm still exploring the viewer/ view relationship, and the effect of the direct gaze.
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{K:16329} 12/7/2005
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The Infanta is the narrator and I think we should absorb the room before we listen to her story......... maybe it should surprise us to find her here. That's one reason I prefer the full frame; the other is because I find the larger view of the room so rich and interesting. Super image, Ina!
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/23/2005
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Thanks Andre, you're right, a number of eras from royalty to plastic!
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/22/2005
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Very nice work here Ina!
I had to smile at the Walmart style plastic bucket smack in the middle of the image. There are 4 or 5 different eras represented by the images in this shot.
Andre
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Ahmed Ismail
{K:19853} 11/21/2005
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Very creative work Ina! I like it. The infanta in the middle of the rubble. The clarity and the lighting is beautiful!
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Mohsen Bayramnejad
{K:21377} 11/21/2005
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Very creative and Original work...with really impresive composition...I love this one! Very well done dear friend,
Mohsen
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cytte
{K:2089} 11/21/2005
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great idea Ina,
well captured with nice lighting effect in back and foreground.
regards
cytte
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 11/20/2005
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WOW
You're a master at this layering gig Ina! Your ideas are wonderfully creative and unique AND your technique is consistently flawless...
Love your work!!
Cheers
Rina
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/20/2005
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Cool, Andrzej - I forgot the Charles Manson connection, thanks for the tip! Maybe you just coined a new term? Neo-Baroque in Photography! Wow!
Thanks!
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Andrzej Pradzynski
{K:22541} 11/20/2005
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Ina, I do not realy understand why she's there. One possible logical link is that for both the fun city of the rainbow seekers and Margaret Theresa the history was dead short but both went through a kind of splendor of the times.
For me the studio is more like a living place (can be called the studio) where sombody messy enough vegetated with no reason and no perspective, was it a Shorty's place or one of his friends? Or was it a temporary "studio" for Charles Manson family?
Very creative artpiece, a kind of contemporary neo-baroque style in photography, eh????. (as new as I never hear of yet)
Cheers,
n.j
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thank you very much Mark, I like to try to make them look as realistic as possible, although the vintage photos (postcards, paintings, etc,) are flat. Best regards, Ina
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György Szönyi
{K:10011} 11/19/2005
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I like your story to Ann, Ina, and by now I also quite clearly see what you mean by art historical appropriations. A very fruitful idea! California, eh? You too seem to travel a lot. Warm regards, Gyuri
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Mark Longo
{K:12760} 11/19/2005
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Wow! Beautiful shot, even without the PS addition. The sharpness and detail is excellent and the colors rich and attractive. The PS layer-in is spectacularly well done Ina! Even after studying this I couldn't tell if maybe this was a statue placed in the scene in reality. The statue makes this actually a little creepy, and the effect is very powerful. The angle and placement are extremely well chosen. I really admire this!
Mark
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Ann Nida
{K:45248} 11/19/2005
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Oh yes Ina...it's a great story. I find it all very interesting. I'm only kidding about being scared but she does look quite ghostly. You have been creating some very artistic and unique images lately. Keep up the good work.
Cheers - Ann :)
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Hi Ann, thanks for your generous comment - I decided to reply - to the no reply required!
Indeed, as you guessed I'm taking my viewer to an abandoned house in a ghost town. By itself, the interior looked to me like an artist's studio. By adding the little girl (Infanta Margarita), from a painting by Velazquez, I'm really "turning" my vision into a virtual Velazquez studio. Velazquez painted Infanta Margarita in another painting, more famous - Las Meninas, in which she is the central figure in his studio. There you can see her, the studio, Velazquez, and many other characters. It's a very controversial painting of which much was written about in Art. Infanta Margarita was the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain, and she lived only to age 22 (1651 - 1673). So would that make her officially a ghost? I don't know! And if she is one, no need to worry, she probably would be haunting a Spanish or German castle... I just borrowed her for a while - brought her to California :) I hope you like my story, and please, please, don't be scared! It's only a picture! Hugs, Ina
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thanks Elisa for your nice comment and the crop suggestion. It's definitely a good point! Great comment :)
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thank you Mohamed :)
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thanks Gyuri - the house is an abandoned house in a ghost town - Ballarat - in Death Valley, CA - it used to be a mining town. The image reminded me in an oblique way of Las Meninas (Velazquez' famous painting of his studio, etc.).
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Mohamed Banna
{K:34237} 11/19/2005
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great creative artistic composition
very nice work
well done dear Ina
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György Szönyi
{K:10011} 11/19/2005
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A tour de force again, Ina. The cottage under reconstruction is already a good topic in itself, but the peeping Spanish lady (I guess, very much like Velasquez) creates a riddle in the midst of the construction mess. Order and disorder, modern and antique, run-down and mint juxtaposed together in a mysterious mix. Good food for thought. Grat: Gyuri
PS: In the meanite I have looked through the comments and have found confirmed, of course, it is Velasquez.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Hi Gabriela! Infanta Margarita was a favorite of many painters after Veazquez: Manet, Picasso, Dali, Botero. It's an iconic figure, especially her portrait from the Las Meninas - not this one. So I just joined the crowd :) In this Death Valley picture I'm making an oblique allusion to Velazquez' studio. Thanks for your comment! Love, Ina
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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16594} 11/19/2005
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A touch of Vermeer? It seemed so from the thumbnail!Now I see it is Velasquez! What an original idea, dear Ina! "The Studio" looks like an abandoned place where the texture of the wall and wood-framed window are so interesting. Many things to look at and analyse,the play of light penetrating from various apertures gives life to the old mumbo-jumbo.As always.....YOUR EYES!!!
Love from Gabriela
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Renato Renato
{K:4759} 11/19/2005
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Ciao Ina,you hawe a great portfolio,I like all yours works,very nice and interrestig subget!
regards Renato
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NN
{K:26787} 11/19/2005
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Hi Ina! Another wonderful mix of old and "new", creating interesting thoughts! I feel tempted to crop off about 1 cm at the bottom, keeping the white line, but of course that?s just a minor thing and just me :) Excellent work! *hugs*
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Ann Nida
{K:45248} 11/19/2005
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WOW Ina...when did you post this? Last week? So many comments already. Looks like I'm late to this party. :)
At first this image kind of looked a bit scary to me with the girl looking at me with those big dark eyes but then I looked into it more..... and it still looks scary. Oh dear maybe because you mentioned ghost town. I do like the building though. All messy as it is, it does look like an old artist's studio or similar type work place.
There are some wonderful elements here in this image and far to many to mention but they all give great textures and colour along with interesting lines and an air of mystery and wonder.
Could this be the ghost of a model of an artist who used to paint here? Could she be waiting for someone she knows to take her back to her own time and dimension. An unsuspecting reincarnated tourist perhaps? Oh dear...I'm starting to scare myself again Ina....not to mention I'm also babbling again. Anyway I like it even if it does scare me a little. :)
Thanks also for your lovely comment on my Yosemite River Scene image. I appreciate your opinions very much.
Cheers - Ann :)
(By the way - no reply necessary - ;) )
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Brian Fillmore
{K:4016} 11/19/2005
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I meant to say Cinderella . Take care Brian
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thanks Linda, I'm having so much fun with PS, plus I get to use some of my older pictures - otherwise not too interesting on their own :)
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thanks Kathy, I like the full frame better too, only with the size limitation on UF, everything gets smaller, and I like to see more of the details. That's why I usually crop them in a square :)
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Linda Imagefree
{K:72276} 11/19/2005
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Wonderful collection of colors, and shapes Ina, I like your studio very much, a touch of beauty amidst the chaos, beautifully done!
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Kathy Hillard
{K:25721} 11/19/2005
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Another great job Ina! I really like the full frame shot, and I don't think it dwarfs the layered image at all. I like your composition, especially leaving in the window frame with all it's great texture. Well done, again!
Kathy
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thanks Brian for your nice comment :)
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Brian Fillmore
{K:4016} 11/19/2005
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Very nice contempary portral of young girl amongst the rubble of an abandoned house. Reminds me a of Ciderella styled image. Nicely presented..
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Wow, thanks Aram, I feel flattered! I'm having so much fun since I discovered layers, I can use a lot of images that were not quite ready to stand on their own, but work good as a backdrop (or stage set). It's - as you said - a matter of matching the lighting and perspective. I'm not even decreasing the opaqueness, I use them at 100% which is less usual. Indeed, this could be Gepetto's shop. Or Velazquez' studio :) Or the idea of the frame - where the window becomes the open canvas. Best regards, Ina
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Aram Gharib
{K:4656} 11/19/2005
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Beautiful and lovely "collage". The lighting and color levels are perfect.
(This picture is a proof that Pinocchio has probably had a sister named Margarita!!)
The extraordinary dimension that you are exploring in the new series of your works is really extraordinary! PhotoShop layers are becoming the cement of old-new and surreal mosaďcs that expose a quite different aspect of your perception (compared to the "patterns"). And a new role too: with "patterns" you were the explorer, with "collages" you are the author of fantastic novels (or riddles?).
For me, discovering each piece of this new series is a new source of pleasure.
Cheers.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thank you Gustavo :)
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/19/2005
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Thank you so much Neal! I'm glad you like it!
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 11/19/2005
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Excelente esta serie de viejos fantasmas...
Felicitaciones!
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Neal Nye
{K:15827} 11/19/2005
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This is turning out to be the most delightful series of any. Admirable technique, viciously clever, and just plain fun!
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/18/2005
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I thought the full frame image looked better, but at this scale, the Infanta is too small:
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/18/2005
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Thanks Rashed :)
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Endre Novak
{K:12666} 11/18/2005
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Looking forward to seeing them here, dear Ina! :-)
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 11/18/2005
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very impresive and original work,great details and wonderful colors,very best regards my friend.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/18/2005
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Thanks Endre, I have a huge collection of pictures I'd like to re-work into something else.
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Endre Novak
{K:12666} 11/18/2005
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Great work on this. Like the location you found, perfect place :-). Buetiful "semi" framing with the wooden window, gives a great texture. The child is jut extra! :-)
Cheers,
Endre
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/18/2005
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Thank you David, it looked from the outset like an artist's studio, with the junk and the table, the window wood looked to me like a canvas stretcher - I loved that mess, too :)
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/18/2005
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Thanks Jezabel :) Right you are! Infanta Margarita :)
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David M Roberts
{K:914} 11/18/2005
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I love it Ina. So much to see here, lots of room for the eye to scan and then you lock in on tru subject. Well Done!
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whoiswho t
{K:10700} 11/18/2005
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heyy Ina, Velazquez's tablo in here. Margarita :))
lovely application. love it.
my best wishes.
tutku / jezabel.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/18/2005
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Thanks dear Robert :)
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Robert Kocs
{K:89085} 11/18/2005
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Wow Ina, very original idea, lovely lady in the abandoned home. Very well capturedn and very cretive mind! What a wonderful presented composition. Very nice work dear! Very well done! 7+++
All my best wishes!
Robert
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