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Title: Spanish Lady (August)
How I did it -The image is made up from three in PS Layers . The wall with the flowers was taken in France. I them cut out the Spanish lady from and image I took at a ethnic festival here in Tauranga. I felt the image still lacked something so from a file I have Of many textures. (I have photographed Walls, carpets etc) I played around adding and deleting in PS Layers to I was happy with the one on image. I added the border to give the final result.
COMMENTS:
| Brian Swinyard |
Your image works well Bill and I like the way that you have combined the three elements. There is a visual connect between the dancer with fan and the window. The textured wall adds to the overall aesthetic and I quite like the ragged edge although I would like to have seen it coloured off-white. |
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| Joan Field |
Excellent job, Bill. Thge colors work perfectly together and I admire the way you placed the three objects together so well. The broken border also helps with this giving it a sense of artistry. I wouldn't change anything. |
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| Barrie Bieler |
In process of moving. |
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| Rick Perkowski |
This image is very well composed with the window giving balance to the scene of the Spanish lady. All the colors in the image complement the colors of the ornate fan. One small point might be that you got a little too aggressive with the border. Perhaps some sort of vignette would have worked better. Well done.
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| Anne Swearman |
Very appropriately this has captured the feeling of warmth and clear Mediterranean light. The manipulation is so well done, nobody would suspect that it was not all contained in one exposure! The fan is beautiful, and adds to the picture, but slightly understated so that it does not dominate her face. There is a great balance to the composition, and the addition of border and texture all work together to make an extremely attractive picture. |
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| Nancy Springer |
This is a very beautiful image. The textured look really gives it that antique feel and is a very good choice. I really like everything about it except for the size differential between the lady and the window. I think maybe the window could be larger even if you had to crop a little off the top…or shrink the lady down a bit, although I would rather not do that since she is the focal point. The perspective might be improved then. I really like this image…the colors of the flowers and
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Bill Hodges - Biography
I first became interested in Photography when my father showed me how to develop and print Black & white back in the 50's. I joined my first photographic club the Southland Photographic Society) in Invercargill New Zealand in 1957. Then in 1959 at the age of 16 I joined the Royal New Zealand Navy and 32 years later I retired from the service with the rank of Chief Master at Arms..
During my service time I kept taking photo-graphs and because of my keenest for photography I was made ships photographer on several ships that I served on. Our navy dosen’t have full time photographers. Early seventies I was transferred into the Naval police. A Small branch of only 20 personnel. The last 5 years of my service I was moved into the Navy’s Training and Development department where I was tasked to set up a Audio visual unit. Using VHS video equip-ment. The Navy sent me to work for 10 weeks with the Australian Navy in their audio visual department to see how they managed theirs. On my return I set about making training and PR videos, but my love was always the still photograph, having set up a darkroom in my home and as my wife said playing in my off hours.
I’m married and have two married children a son and daughter. My Wife and I were mar-ried in Singapore where we met. She was serving in the British army and I was on a NZ Ship based out of Singapore.
On my retirement from the Navy my wife & I moved from Auckland to Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty. This was so we could be close to my two my Children and our grand-children.
On Arrival to our new City I started up my own photography business working from my home. My work mainly was weddings, Com-mercial, sport, and I supplied two photo stock libraries. Having several images appear on calendars and post cards.
I am a member of the Photographic Society of NZ and a member of two clubs North Shore in Auckland & the Tauranga photo society severing at times on their committees. I obtained my associateship from the PSNZ in 1999. For the past 6 years I have been coordinator for the running of a bi-monthly PSNZ/Canon online competition. I am asked to judge quite often by clubs around NZ and also been on panels of judges at some large National exhibitions
I have won several awards in local, National & International Competitions. I been awarded the honour of Excellence of the International Federation of Photographic Art (EFIAP) for my international successes in 2006 .
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