A hard night

Marvellous

beautiful photo ! great art work

Excellent work Mel, great texture, shadow and framing! :D

Love the shadows and the bareness of the room. It’s almost surreal. Unusual pose and capture, makes you look at all the details for a while. Fabulous Mel!

pass me a glass hon? love to join you!

Fantastic pose Mel love the framing and shadow nicely balanced

this is sooo cool. Bravo Mel

Terrific work as usual Mel…loving the story!!

Original. : )

great textures and lighting is cool

Love the textures and lighting, I think the compromise works well Mel …. :))

proper lights? what for? this is perfect Mel

great lighting and set up Mel and as John said…...proper light ? what for?

Fab

BLOWN AWAY BY THIS MEL!!!!!! This is a serious knockout image of epic proportions… You’ve gone to another level here,.... THIS IS SO OUTSTANDING!

Your processing here is just fantastic! Those lights work for me proper or not!!

wow, i am in awe. you are amazing!!!

i needs me one of them thar bulbs! fantastic image with harsh light that really hits it home.

Absolutely stunning!

This is a amazing shot Mel! The colors and look at those shadows so moody! I like the lighting that bulb produced it’s Unique.

What a mood you have created..love the use of the light..I wouldnt be looking into anything different if you can get results like this!!

Amazing work,, I like the scale of the objects,, fantastic light, shadows and textures!!

Perfect WOW magic .

Lovely detail and magic lighting Mel.

Very well done Mel

OMG how incredible does this look!
i’m soooooo envious.
fantastic vision and execution mel.
you’re a true talent! ;-) xox

Mel.. Been there .. But you put it to the RB and world.. Bravo..

Very powerful image, Mel… great work!

Excellent work Mel… love well…. everything about it!

Been there…. great image Mel! :)

Brilliant work, love the mood, lighting and drama. It seems to me she is trying to hide and escape but no matter what she does, she is in the spotlight, always needed, critiqued, and unable to find peace.

perfect … just as everyone else has told you but I’ll say it again .. the lighting is fabulous just as it is .. who needs proper lights … it’s fantastic! (smile)

spectacular. singular artistic vision masterfully executed… wow….

jaw drops This is amazing Mel. You captured the emotion in this scene beautifully.

you don’t need proper lights, hun. Everything you have up has it’s own brilliant atmosphere because you use the lighting you have available :)

and this beauty is no exception, either, it’s gorgeous :D

great angle,mood and composition

Wonderful work Mel.

Fantastic perspective and mood. Such a cool shot.

Fantastic,Mel,now that’s what i call illumination!!!

PERFECT ART

Awesome lighting & staging. Great stuff!

That big bulb did an awsome job, wonderful lighting, great composition. Classic Mel Brackstone …

God, Paul Vanzella got a bit excited didn’t he??? Hope he didn’t blow a gasket!
Anyway, this is a ripper Mel. Your processing is excellent as is the feeling of starkness you’ve created.

excellent shot Mel

I really like the shadows..Great one

Mel this is so powerful. Rare to see images that speak as well as this does, portrays so much feeling and emotion.

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
Diane Arbus, (1923-1971)

I love this pic, feeling like the surrealism art :-)

Great shot! Looks very surreal. I like the composition and the color palette.

Wow! I love this Mel… a very surreal piece indeed. I love the way the proportions have all been blown out of scale when you look at the furniture and the effect of the wide angle is brilliant. Fantastic composition and the overall idea is just brilliant. Love it!

Great shot Mel Really tells a story Love the colours and the models pose

Wonderful image, colours, lighting, props, brilliant!

Great work Mel!!! ;-) Very haunting piece!

Superb. No need to reply!

love this…the colours…and the look of wariness on the model is brilliant

Mel, if this is what you can create with industrial lighting, you are going to be unstoppable with “proper” lights ;) Tres cool…

I’m loving this shot..

GREAT!

Brilliant work, set up and treatment…...bravo Mel

WOW! What a terrific set up and capture. You inspire me!

a moody, splendid image!

You were dead right about the efect of the wide-angle! Rules were made to be broken :)

had to come back to this Mel – it is MORE THAN SENSATIONAL!

man this is so cool.its way past pro photography.this is in a class of its own.big ideas,big thoughts,big pictures.so nice,well done.

this is awesome mel – love the processing too! brilliant!

fantastic,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I love the colours achieved through x-processing Mel, this is fab, reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

fantastic comp, I just love this room and the lighting is spot on.

beautiful work. i dont know how you do it… your work has such Gravitas, i cant pull that off.
Your work, if translated into sound would be some major symphony by beethoven, my work sounds like a brass kazoo at a circus.
love it.

A 5.000.000 watt lamp? Really?? I actually at first thought it was the light from an atomic blast but I see I wasn’t far off!

Whatever watts it was, it did the job of giving this shot an amazing aspect of no-way-out… like it’s got her pinned to the chair and won’t let her get up. I can feel her anguish. Yet another style from the queen of versatile, which I hope you follow up and do more of soon. Wonderful image!!

this is waesome, what a shot, it takes you to another place

fantastic =)

this is gorgeous Mel … love the colours and the concept :)

Great mood, long the long shadow, gives it a sinaster look

exiting -and great composition!

Wonderful work Mel….!!! The lighting and colour reminds me of the work of the italian surrealist De Chirico.

great pic…seductive,moody …brilliantly concieved…it has a sort of madness to it..

wow, Mel this is fantastic. love the starkness of it and the moody colours

Excellent use of light and colour resulting in an outstanding work of art.

So love this image….

Nice wide angle and set.

very nice

Just brilliant! The shadows and light are phenomenal!

Ghostly. Like it a lot Mel

Everything just works Mel.
Love the focal length!

Brilliant composition!

This is sooooooooooooooo cool.
Top notch work!

Fantastic mood!!

Seems that you’ve gotten pretty good with the the low power sun that you’re using for light. . .

AMAZEING

Awesome! love the framing.

MY GOD!!! ONCE AGAIN BEAUTIFUL!!! you’re doing great without the proper lights.
good work!

A very very nice image!

Chris

cool image- very moody!

Bloody brilliant beautiful work, Mel – well done!!!

SUPER COOL LOOKING! NICE COLORR!

Fantastic. Love it.

I feel like I could fall in to this picture! Amazing!

Great Atmosphere,