Wetlook World Forum

It's a well done shot.  Lighting is excellent, so is color balance and focus.  Shutter speed is fast enough to capture the water, and I love the spectral highlights (the shine on her skirt) that screams WET.  Looks like the work of Tom (sorry about my lousy memory, I'm unsure of his last name, is it De Lombardi?, but I will not forget his work).  The only thing in this shot that bothers me is a relic of being trapped in two dimensions.  That shampoo bottle on the ledge looks like it's in her hand, makes the shot look a little like a shampoo ad.  You can't see these problems before you shoot because most of us see in 3D, and all of us create a model of our environment in our mind using many visual cues.  If we were there, we'd know the bottle is on the ledge, not in her hand, but in a flattie (2D) picture, we can't tell.  It's very tough to know this is going to happen before hitting the shutter.  

Anybody know if there is any more of her (I believe her name is Emily) out there anywhere?  At one point, she had a site, but I lost track of it.  Most of her stuff that I saw was on that other very good but very commercial site that went away.  I think they spanked us for not giving them enough money.  Don't remember the name of it.  It's too bad when quality art work goes away simply because someone did not get as much cash out of the deal as they wanted.  I know I'm going to get flamed for this, I know commercial producers have to make money, but what happened to preserving artwork for the sake of art.  I've competed internationally as a class AA 3D (stereo) photographer.  Sent some of my work around the world for exhibition 3D slide shows.  It costed me money, but sharing your best work should have rewards other than money.  Really good art seldom makes much money, at least not until the artist is dead anyway.

Maybe we need to set up a site for judged wetlook photo competition with a permanent display of the winners.  It might promote wetlook and be a very good learning tool for up and comming photographers.  Photogs could submit shots to a panel of judges, who would post their comments and a score.  The only reward is recognition, and a link to the photographer''s site.  Submitted shots would become public domain for non-commercial use.