Here are my impressions of this week's PF Gallery. Betcha couldn't wait for 'em. David Small (N.Y.C. 2002) - Interesting shot. A bit high contrast, lots of black. To me, this shot would be better without the big sign on the right. Nice positioning of bodies, good grab. Roderick Chen - First there's a hand, looks mummified, then you notice the skull, it's not the moon. Now you notice it's on old parchment and a kind of 4 by 5 full frame border. It's a depressing image, but a well done image. Perhaps a bit closely cropped on the sides. Richard Cooper (Reflections) - I like this, a tad too much magenta for my taste though. I assume this reflection is not a real reflection. Would it ever have been nice if it looked a tad more real. Perhaps masked onto just the window panes. Gregory david Stempel (The Farm) - Yes, the farm is a bit too small as it is. Hey, select it out, blow it up, and put it back in there larger. Lucky day to find a sky like that. Marilyn Dalrymple - The wittle mousie wooks wike he's sweeping, ahhhh. Be nice cropped in tight with just the mouse and the cat's face. Snapshotish lighting but it's not really art, is it? Brian van den Broek (Time Enough) - Interesting 3 dimensionality with ther reflections, this photo has a strange reality to it where I expect the hands to move and to hear a ticking. In other words, well done. Course a more interesting reflection might have made this a really super photo. Dan Mitchell (Boxes) - If you squint you can imagine these are strange apartment buildings. Otherwise colourful, it's not an impressive image. The cropping could either be tighter, or less tight. As it is, just the edges are cut off on the sides, which makes it a bit strange. Christy Bright (Souvenirs) - Well, try and hold the camera a little more steady. I think this should be a bit sharper. Are you using bilinear downsampling? Right side is cut off a bit too much. Nice lively and colourful image though. Greg Fraser (Fall) - I love the effect, the leaves, and the tree, but I'm a bit put off by the angle of it all. I believe this image would have really shined at a normal shooting angle. It just looks tilted. Wonderful texture though, and the blurring of the leaves really contrasts with that. Brian Chandler (Botty) - I've also seen some strange statues in Temple grounds. The hold bird poop stain adds some humour to it, but the red flag thing kind of spoils it. Maybe cropped too tight. Nothing special as it is. King/Arthur (Up/Down) - Hmmm is about all I can say. Keep working with this effect until you get something with better content. D.L. Shipman (November Pumpkins, Englewood 2002) - I know that afternoon light in the fall, perhaps a bit darkish, but that's the way pumpkins often look in the late afternoon in fall. Overall, not enough of a real interest point to make it special. And one big dark shadow kind of spoils it too. Well, I'm glad to add my reviews to the many others this week. This was certainly a more uplifting gallery than last week's. Keep at it!
