>as seen at >http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html > Meester Spirer: clock face Well, I'm a sucker for this kind of old world, grainy, slice of life stuff. So I like this clock whether it's a working one or exactly vertical or leaving me with a large white space to the Northeast to wonder about or not. Nifty texture in the sheet metal of the face and the pattern of waning depth of field accentuates just how important XII is to our sense of time. ELF's Zakim Bridge Sorry I didn't remember the techie stuff. I think I didn't polarize this one, Velvia, long zoom probably somewhere around 120mm, couldn't stop down far enough to get a sunstar without a tripod and I left it over in Cambridge about 2 blocks from the Lechmere station. I did try polarizing one of them, but lost so much speed that I gave it up. Pretty much every color here is an artifact of the position of the sun and the choice of film and the clarity of the sky that day. Shipman's egret We got a nice clear eye here, and there's a look of purposefullness in it, too. Looks like you got hardly a speck of depth of field, however, because the feathers and close side of the bill are soft. Amazing how a digital multiplier and 1.4 extender can romance one into thinking that things could hardly be more perfect. Sometimes I fall in love with the feathers the birds leave in my yard and get to thinking they're as essential as the eye. Anyone seen that book that Frans Lanting did of feathers? Marilyn's white sweeties I dunno. I guess it's just not my style and I know it's yours. Cat shapes are so beautiful and the lack of focus certainly accentuates the shapes but it's still just not my style. Greg-o's modern American power worship Yeah. if only Edison gave a damn, we wouldn't have our world plagued with this sort of dangerous extrusion. And if it were beautiful I'd applaud the compostion heartily. I do like the harshness of it, the uniform tone of the sky contrasting with the sunlight sculpting the condenser cans. The V shape of the whole maybe could benefit from a bit more exaggeration. Talbot's big bird Grownup or baby? I'm wishing there were more contrast, to accentuate the powerfulness of this creature. Somehow it looks so mild when the mythology is of such dominance. A hairlight along the breastline and catchlight in the eye maybe? And maybe get rid of all that space to the right of it, since it's looking at us. (Galen Rowell always said that one should have space for a face to be facing towards.....) That would move the balance into a wedge shape - the rock ascending to the hind claws and the tailfeathers descending to the hind claws. Jim Snarski's leggy blond Awful lot of other blond data here. And the leggy part is awful soft, sorta looks like the tree in front caught the autofocus and the" blond" was an afterthought. No eyes at all, except the ones all over the coat and no bottoms to the leggyness. I think the leggy needs all of it to be leggy to look leggy at all. More like necky. Anticapitalizer Harris' fire Fire is so heavenly transparent. How wonderful. Stunning. I agree. Peeter's pose This is pretty neat. I like the unposed part of it - that the heart of the fire is not tidily centered behind the waist of the body. And I especially like being able to see the fingers before the fire. Still I wonder why the debris is being burnt and not used in a fireplace or as fodder. The contrast between the end of evening dark blue sky and looming clouds and the hot spot of the fire is especially nice as well. King/Arthur Caesura Not sure what the pause or break is here. Interesting that the vendors in Haymarket have come into the modern age with those metal booths that craftspeople use at street fairs. I think I like my slices of life to have some internal logic and I'm not finding that in this photo. Maybe that's the caesura? Mr. Cooper's city again Yes. It's definitely better to have it horizontal, and now I can look at it and wonder about all the things in the picture. Is that a castle in the middle of the river? How long is the bridge? Can one get around the old fashioned iron fence to walk on the cement edge? The lights are all fine and nice but their softness contrasts with the relative sharpness of the rest of the scene and I wonder whether there would be an advantage to stopping down further to make the lights sharp too. Scott's Gatehouse Seems to be falling a bit on it's face somehow. The tower is parallel to the left edge but the tree is leaning towards the sun at some other time of day. I think I wish it were sharper, but maybe the nostalgia factor is accentuated by the slight softness. I dunno. Wonderful how these 1850s structures of fieldstone in liturgical style with slate rooves and all that stuff were built as gatehouses. Imagine dreaming about actually getting the job of gate keeper and living in there! What are T-Max and Tri-X effects? Thanks to all for submitting, to Andy's staff for keeping it going every week and to all who will critique during this week. -- 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
