At 9:40 AM -0400 10/12/02, ADavidhazy wrote: >The PhotoForum member's gallery/exhibit space was updated OCT-12-02. Authors >with work now on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include: > > Dan Mitchell - Cockerel Hmm. Lotta grass. Eye not clear. Now I know we've discussed rules vs. guidelines, but the old eye nostrum always seemed to make an awful lot of sense to me. I wish the chicken's eye were tack sharp and closer to me. And I wish there were something about the photo that contained an implication of male-ness. For all I know about chickens this could be any old chicken. It's only from the title that I get further info. But I can imagine how the photographer could have contributed to reinforcing that - a lower angle like lying on the ground and shooting up at the bird's head would have definitely put across a different message. This version is just a statement. "Cockerel" needs some sort of exclamation point. > Bob Talbot - The B.M. Well, in american BM has a slightly less than savory definition, but I'm wondering, where are the Elgin Marbles? Under this balcony? The sky seems overexposed but the walls are luscious and what did you do to keep those little footlights from turning yellow? And the shadows of the roof on the walls are very nice, too, especially the swirl. > John Mason - Frank Morgan, Charlottesville, Virginia, 4 October 2002 Beautiful cliche. I can't decide whether I'd prefer to excise the bass player or not. Needs a waft of cig smoke for atmosphere. Funny about these classic shots - no matter how accustomed we get to them, they still evoke a sense of emotion, intimacy, excitement. I'd still clone out the hair on the bass player's arm in the scan, if it were me. > jIMMY Harris - More Fish Stories Seems like the tale teller is facing away from the viewer, but I can't quite tell for sure. Too many birds floating about. Not real sharp. Interesting how their bodies are in the water but the bottom edges of their wings look like they're above the water level. I mentally tried cropping just the bird with the wings outstretched and the two on either side, but there wasn't a sense of them interacting, so it didn't support the title. > Marilyn Dalrymple - Hey! What's goin' on back there? Really beautiful. It's a shame about the yellow patch on the leg but torties are that way. But anyway, I like the imbalance, even the ignored toy. > Emily L. Ferguson - Nobska at dawn It was a boring sunrise and although the pic looked good on the light table and is a good cover shot for the local lifestyle mag, but it still looks boring to me in the gallery. > Alan P. Hayes - Downpour Aarg. Turn the wipers on. Scarey. Lotta rain there. I wonder how to get the sunstars in the oncoming car when you're driving and trying to keep the horizon level and it's dark and raining like that. Really fast film I guess... > Greg Fraser - Downpour My favorite plums - how dare they not pick them all! I'll come out and can them for them. I'd like some more contrast in the rendition, however. And the selective focus is OK too, maybe a bit more of the spoilage would have balanced the weight of the clump of plums. > Peeter Vissak - Forkload I love the subtlety of this. I'm not convinced by the dark trees on the right and I'm wondering why the stuff is being burned, but the tender bit of warmth in the center is very appealing. > Andrew Fildes - Sven Not my idea of a happy distortion of the Sven's face, to me. If I'd done that I sure wouldn't show it to the model! > Christopher Strevens - Putting on the agony Well, the composition is quite graceful to me. You had rain all summer so maybe the limited palette is accurate, too. It's nice to see the mother so relaxed with the child, too but kinda sad not to see how she feels about the child in her face. Somehow I sense that she withheld her face because of the photographer's attitude towards her, but maybe I'm off about that. > Richard Cooper - Interesting crop there. Was this 35mm? I think I'd like to see the standard ratio because it would reinforce all the horizontal lines. But then I'd like to see them horizontal too, and not tending downward to the left side. I do like the corner on the left side - a sense of direction. -- Emily L. Ferguson elf@cape.com 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography Beetle cats on the web at: http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf http://www.beetlecat.org/store.html#yrbook
