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Published: 2003-12-23 13:32:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 4104; Favourites: 76; Downloads: 1047
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here's another shot from the recent session with and . it's in a playground near my home...the pictures with 2 stickmen in them are made up of 2 photos, i only drew one per photograph.
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There's something so surreal and creative about this concept. Awesome work!
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i love your art and i think it is really cool would you please join my new group for stickmen called thestickworld it only has 14 members but i started it yesterday i hope you will make the right decision.
this is not spam so do not report me like someone i invited yesterday
thanks for reading i will be looking forward to hearing from you
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hum sorry i was saying you done a great job here 
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hello woow I love I love
can you see that and tell me what you think about it?? [link] and [link]
thanks
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aww they look like cute alien children come to earth and playing around.
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love this series, been playing with long exposues and torches my self carnt get it to any where near to your standard. awesome
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That is very cool. I don't have many words to say but the work is amazing.
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this has got to be my favorite of the set!!
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glad you like it! thanks for checking it out...
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lovely stickmen, great idea for this photo
i love works with light and dark.. Stickmens doesn't exist normally.. but you have photographed them like another simple model!
(sorry for my bad english, but i'm italian... 
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thanks for your kind comment!
no prob about your english, i understood perfectly (and i'm not a natively speaking english either).
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i those effects, used to do that, not in the same context but still. what light did you use?
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i didn't get what you do those effects
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man, i love your style. you're doing wonders with your lamp and long exposures
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stunning! what did you use to 'paint' the sticksmen?
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i don't remember exactly, but it's a flashlight of some sort for sure... most likely my bike's "halogen" headlight by CATEYE, similar to this [link]
and thanks for the comment!
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wow
love long exposure shots and this is quite original and amanzing
great work with photoshop too
just a little disturbed with the lens flare in the firts shots, but WTH is a great shot any way
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I don't understand how you did this
But it's mad cool!
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it's not hard to do... it's "drawing" with flashlights during a long exposure photography.
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I love this! its amazing! i want to play on the playground. *pouts*
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No f'in way. I've seen some of your light stuff before, and it's very impressive, but this is just plain sick. I wish I felt like going on at great length right now, because I almost feel like talking about how much I love this piece for about a half an hour. Definitely worthy of a fav in my book
Amazing, amazing stuff
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Mostly, I love this! The concept is just too good!
I regret your presence in the first shot. Since you're taking multiple shots on a tripod anyway, I would always take an "emtpy" shot so that you've got the raw materials to address issues like these.
The second shot, photographically, is my favorite - there's something about the looming presence of that background building that really completes it for me, and the value of the relatively greater brightness up over the hill. These make this shot an excellent center anchor for the whole triptych.
The third shot for me looked like the winner in the detail view, but then disappoint me in the full view. It's that I thought there would only be one subject, acutely alone, in the punchline, and that to me would have really concluded the story on a more definite note. As is, he looks weary (which is great) but the "message" there is harder for me to discern. To your credit, there clearly IS one, the relationship between the two of them, so it's perhaps only my own limitation that I don't entirely "get it."
The bright spots, left in the first shot, don't detract for me much at all, precisely because of their placement in the overall composition. I wouldn't sweat those - in an image with so much specific and unreal light, a little " random" light, so far from the centers of action, doesn't seem like a detriment to me, but perhaps a mild reinforcement.
And overall, I can't emphasize enough how delightfully creative this is. I've looked at your gallery thumbnails, and this one appears to be a very strong pinnacle of your stickmen work.
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wow, thank you so much for viewing and taking time to write this extensive comment!
i should have thought about a reference shot, thanks for reminding me. i hardly ever take any, hopefully will remember henceforth...
i didn't think too much when composing. i just happened to have 2 stickmen that fit into that 3rd picture at the same time and used them.
thanks again!
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jipiii... i bi erwΓ€nt bim ole... isch das gel...
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jungs.... ich muss sagen.... geile idee
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ganz herzlichen dank! das hab ich uebrigens alleine gemacht, meine 2 kollegas waren nebenan fuer sich am fotis schiessen...
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Well done, nice shots. However, I do have some critique on this one. Please don't take it personally
Here goes:
1) The light spots in the first picture on the upper left corner. No good, sorry. Actually, the entire first image isn't that good (you're sitting down there, all blurred and stuff, and are pretty much disturbing the entire stickmen-harmony). You should consider reshooting that one.
2) Mmh...second picture. Here a bit of praise: the contrasts and deep shadows are really good. The background is 'soft' in contrast with the foreground which makes it a a-ok picture. Nice.
3) One suggestion: You've been posting a helluva lot of stickmen. Not to crash your personal style here, but what about doing something else for a change? I think we've seen the whole stickmen idea by now. Nevertheless, most of them are good long exposure shots, so kudos to you on that one.
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thanks for your critique Adrian, it is appreciated!
1) i did notice the light spot, but couldn't help using the picture anyway, as i really liked the stickman on that particular picture (it's the one sitting on that small house). as it was raining those spots were hard to avoid, but i'll try harder to do so...
i wasn't sure about me being still somewhat visible, though, but ~raumzeit and *fritsch both seemed to like it, so...
2) thanks!
3) uhm, was it really that many? 
cheers mate!
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Very imaginative, the way they're each positioned is pretty real, and each figure looks nice and 3-dimentional.
Great work, keep it up!
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excellent job in drawing these people with lights
it's gotta be tough to get it right
good one
or should i say 3
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