Gregory: I do appreciate your comments about my image posted. Complementary as well as critical comments are appreciated,-------- better than no comments at all. Thanks and I will continue to post more images. Richard cooper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Fraser" <Gregory.Fraser@pwgsc.gc.ca> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 2:13 PM Subject: Gallery Impressions for 17 July 2002 > Here are my bitter, ignored again on fathers day impressions of the images > as seen at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html > > jIMMY Harris (Western CANADA with a Flare) - Well jIMMY I admire the respect > you have given THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD so its hard for me to find > fault with your image except to say that she looks a tad blue and I suspect > that lovely flare may have something to do with it. I've never been out west > so as far as I know that's the way things look out there. This looks like a > very difficult shot what with the sun in the lens and the high contrast > subject. Sometimes you just have to get up earlier when the sun is kinder. > > Mark Harris (NYPD Cop and Skater) - Now to prove you're over your fear take > your 8x10 view camera and set that up on the street. No avoiding > confrontation there. Besides, having that dark cloth over your head really > helps out the muggers. I like the amount of DOF. It separates the cop and > blader a bit but not so much that they are out of context. The crooked > horizon is bothering me. BTW I cannot shoot strangers myself but then they > rarely form my kind of images anyway so it works out well. > > Richard Cooper (US Coast Guard Port of Rochester, NY 6-02) - This image has > me pondering. Don't they have paint money in their budget or are they just > coming back from a drug boat sinking exercises? Are these guys stuck on a > sand bar? Most of all I want to know why you chose to chop off the bow of > the boat and the antennae? I'm not sure I understand this image. > > Christopher Strevens, LRPS (Cafe on Road) - Never heard Micky D's referred > to as a cafe. Perhaps this is tongue in cheek. For some reason this reminds > me of the Burger King shots that appeared a while back yet this shot is more > than that. The light post represents the lance of Don Quixote struggling in > vain to topple the untopplable, relentless windmill called McDonalds. > > Roderick Chen - Awesome subject and what really impresses me is the way you > took that basically blue and white scene and ran the yellow safety line > perfectly straight down the frame. A line of man-made order in a chaotic and > dynamic environment. Very nice touch and I would imagine it takes quite a > bit of concentration to climb up there and then set up a shot. I would just > be waving the camera around firing the trigger and panting 'work it' before > passing out. So where was this taken? Is this the majesty of CANADA or > Tibet? > > King/Arthur (Nightpatrol (South End, Boston)) - This is funky. The image is > bringing back vague memories of playing with plastic army men although they > are a different shade of green. This does look like the night scope I wasn't > supposed to use on the ship when I was on lookout in the navy. I suppose its > the bright yet monochromatic effect that I like. That's not really a night > scope shot though is it? > > Guy Glorieux (Mannequin) - The shadow area at the bottom makes me want to > see this as a positive but the rest of it I like just as it is. I like the > way the image is balanced and the geometric progression from the round > mirror on the left, the half dome of the mannequin's head and her squarely > posed arm and the square windows. It looks more exotic in this print than it > does in my positive version in my imagination. Very neat. > > Jose Luis Vasconcellos (Self portrait without a tip) - Beautiful, dramatic > lighting and a really, really interesting pose. The pain on your face seems > far greater than what I would expect from losing a tip. I'm definitely not a > portrait photographer and quite often I don't get much from portraits but > this one I really like. The emotion seems very genuine to me. Very nice > work. > > > > >
