2002-08-0 Greg Fraser - Badonkadonk Trust http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/fraser.html I love this shot just as it is - full of atmosphere when in reality it is just a rusty old bridge. Bob Talbot: My only minor question was whether it worked not being able to see where all the uprights converged. So I tried a minor crop to square (album cover format) 3 pixels off base and left: 57 off top, 9 off right Nah, it becomes a different picture ;o) Bobbie Blazy: Although my eye is led out at the top of the image it snaps right back into the flow. I could look at this image a long time...the tonal ranges, it is a thought provoking image to me. Alan Zinn - Keats - Boston http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/zinn.html Bob Talbot: Not a bad photo but I'm assuming this one was put in for it's humo(u)r content. A thing of beauty? Well, I bet his mum loves him anyway. ;o) Bobbie Blazy: Thank goodness it is not the butt pants thing.....lol Bruce Weitzman - http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/weitzman.html Bob Talbot: Great shot - really nice quality. Well lit, good tones. Don't know what more to say really ... is there a minor flaw? I wonder if the feature at pixel 64,247 is a reflection of the white panels used to throw light back? I don't know - as a shot it has no real focus other than that sweeping gap between the two glasses. Bobbie Blazy: Would like to see this as a horizontal with a bit of a crop at top and bottom of horizontal. Technically well done with strong design. Kostas Papakotas - ... http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/papakotas.html Bob Talbot: Yup, looks like the expression seen on the face of "Jesus" on the cross. I like the atmosphere and expression of the singer. The hand bothers me though: is it his or another singer holding the mike? It looks to be at a diffculty angel. Bobbie Blazy: The finger leads me out of the photo-would like to see this cropped at just below neck. The face with the eyes asks more questions of me than seeing the rest of the photo. As it is now-I think the photo would not stand alone but in the grouping it would. Christopher Strevens - Winchester Festival http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/strevens.html Bob Talbot: I bet (hope) the original hold all the detail that 67375 bytes can't do justice to. There is so much fine detail in the stonework and the banners. As presented it is well composed/cropped. If I have a question it is the colo(u)r cast ... I feel it needs a littel more blue (at least that is what the histogram suggests) but then again, the stone is yellow not grey so I'm not sure. Was it lit by tungsten lights or is it daylight? Bobbie Blazy: To me the strongest portion of the photo is the ceiling. I keep going back to it and am not as much interested in the rest of the photo. Perhaps if there was a person/child in the foreground caught in the festival moment...it would be a stronger image. Was the camera handheld? Marilyn Dalrymple - Me? You Want to Take Me Home? http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/dalrymple.html Bob Talbot: Oh Maralyn, when they say "never work with children and animals" I think the animals can be much harder. The cat looks really cute and I know the background to why you are doing these shots (the rescue centre) soto that end. 1) the red rose, being red (as all photographers know) takes attention away from the cat. We want someone to adopt the cat, not the rose ;o) 2) the eyes must be sharp: I know cats are little bleeders when it comes to keeping still (err, when still - eyes closed: eyes open - we move) but this would have so much more appeal if the eyes were the focus. 3) The cat's pose is a good one: getting a cat to look direct at the lens is a nightmare for sure. It it was not for our quarantine laws I would ask you to ship "me" now ... Bobbie Blazy: My eye went to the felines eyes and noticed lack of sharpness, next went to rose in foreground next seeing plastic. I would not include the rose. Would use a colored fabric beneath the cat (black for this little kitty). I see another cat in the background left...this must be a challenge to shoot! jIMMY Harris - Angel Rock http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/jharris.html Bob Talbot: YUK Sorry jimmy, 39 dollars for that camera? You were done. I won't pretend to like the shot at all. Waht it the point? Seriously. Sorry ... Bobbie Blazy: Looks like she was shot under a glass shower door! NOT an angel........ So what does a landscape-or cityscape look like with this camera, lets see some more. Robert Carlson - Hotel http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/carlson.html Bob Talbot: Despite all the reflection-distortion this picure works, generally. It does lack sharpness in the interesting areas but the pole is annoying an is the sharpest bit. As presented it is too "half-and-half" for me. It improves dramatically IMO if you remove 60 pixels or so from the right edge. Is it a self portrait? ;o) I guess not -- is the woman another photographer or just shielding her eyes from the sun? Bobbie Blazy: I see three vertical pictures here. Not sure as a whole the image is as strong. Dan Mitchell - Cottages http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/mitchell.html Bob Talbot: First question - do you remember where on the Isle of Arran? It looks familiar but I can't recall the place. The effect is so easy to do now we have digital - in a way it has devalued messing about with images. Being trad makes no difference - no allowances. The black sky is the part I find hardest to live with pictorially The effect is always intriguing though: turning an ordinary scene into a graphic. I suspect this suffers the same problem as Chris's image: so much fine detail in the original that cut down to 150,000 pixels it just is not done justice. Bobbie Blazy: I appreciate the work involved on this image. I would like to see the original scene side by side. Roderick Chen - yellow http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/chen.html Bob Talbot:A classic "camera club" shot: everything composed, no distractions ...even the title chosen so as not to give any excuse for complaint. Geometrical patterns in a grey building with "yellow" there to break the gloom. If thers is something else though it is that small patch of sky which remionds us nature still exists. But that nature seems uncomfortable amongst the concrete ... or is it just that I feel uncomfortable there? It lacks critical sharpness: was that because it was hand-held or because you only used 30K of your 50K ration? Bobbie Blazy: The foreground shadow and the yellow bounces me eye around a bit much. I see yellow paper or leaves in the foreground,,,cropping the top of the photo out just below the yellow and red windows...much stronger. Andrew Davidhazy - http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/davidhazy.html Yup, definitely a plank! Bob Talbot: OK, it has a pattern. I don't like the two drill holes towards the base ... cropping them makes it less of a vertical panorama which don't work well on monitors. I don't know about the "image managed" in PS bit either. All three channels seem a bit dark - the histogram showing virtually no use of RGB values 210-255 in any channel. Being dark overall, the very dark bottom right corner becomes even more of a flaw. I'm left wishing I could see more detail in the wood (the grain maybe?). The pattern, while interesting, is just a pattern ... Bobbie Blazy: Hey who nailed the zebra? : ) _________________________ Thanks to the contibutors Bob -------------------------------------- Thanks for reading my first PF reviews. Bobbie Blazy
