While waiting for a Microsoft update to download, I have plenty of free time for a review of the images found at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html. Gregory david Stempel (Holding the Rail) - Nice detail in the shadows. The composition seems to fit the subject well. It feels very rigid and confined. I personally would prefer the whole thing flipped horizontally but I can live with it like it is. I really like the way the highlights on the rail have blown out. It looks like a slash of white paint across the image and sets up the triangles above it. Nice shot. Emily L. Ferguson (Speaking of chickens....) - I'm not getting a good feeling from this one. I see those giant, blurry boards chopping that curious rooster's head off once he comes over here to see what I'm doing. Seriously though, the boards are so prominent and yet so out of focus that they bother me. John Palcewski (Kurt Vonnegut) - My favouritest author of all time. I arrived late (but still earlier than Kurt) to a lecture he gave and had to sit behind a 4 foot wide pillar. Didn't see too much unless he moved stage-left but what I did see looked exactly like this. I find the contact sheet represents my impression of him - multi-faceted but cohesive. David Small (Six Pack) - These women don't look to me like first string Bud girls. They look like hometown girls (perhaps New Jersey) that have gotten hold of Budweiser swim suits and happen to be walking around with travel bags. There is no crowd of gawkers. David has trapped them behind a convention hall where they pose happily after all, that's why they're out there. Snapper Bob - Saucy perfection. I like the misty look. Is that flare from the backdrop lights? Talk about your perfect exposure. Playful pose, just a bit of flesh, coy look - replace the hair in her hand with a hammer drill and you've got yerself a Snap-On poster. I specially like the way the eyes are so well lit. I love a well lit eye. John Edwin Mason (Serra in St. Louis) - Content aside (assuming it was just a wall), the image doesn't thrill me but at the same time I get the feeling it should. Perhaps its just the familiarity I have with this type of scene although I find something interesting in the contrast of rusty wall and sunny, blue sky behind clean stone buildings. Yeah, that's probably it. Now looking at the content, someone purposely set up a giant, rusty wall to block the cleanliness behind it. Or did the clean side people put it up to block my side? Just another example of the man tryin' to keep me down. I guess its an interesting shot after all. Morley Roberts (Esquiminac1) - I love the color of the silt this fluid has deposited. The composition is troublesome but I can't tell which way I would change it. Maybe crop the bottom to get rid of the bottom triangle of sand and perhaps rotate it. That's just my personal preference though. I like the harsh sunlight and the way the shadows outline the main curves in the sand and ripples in the water. Cool man. Jim Davis (cold morning in the park) - Compositionally, it looks to me like the foreground tree is the focus of the image but it and the grass it rode in on are both very unsharp. The reflections in the water are nice and sharp though but my mind wants the foreground sharp. I can't seem to settle anywhere comfortably. jIMMY Harris (Dandelion) - Love the velvety yellow. Hate the vomit/Pepto Bismol border. Hey, 50% ain't bad. Christopher Strevens, LRPS (Sporulating Lichen at Box Hill) - The color may be natural but it sure ain't pleasing to my eye. On the other hand I love the word 'sporulating'. I think I'll do a little sporulating this weekend. Andrew Hillier (Sunshine kiss) - The shadow exposure is good but the sunlight blasting through the kids is a tad overpowering. I don't really care for the border. Its so obtrusive that I find it distracting. Are they kissing or licking? Andrew Davidhazy (Hirschhorn) - I don't really see the connection between this image and the wool industry. "When you gonna shear that sheep?" "What are you talking about? I had hirschorn last week." Anyway, I likes it. It reminds me of the Animaniacs and a racetrack at the same time. Just like Saturday mornings at the dog track betting on 'Addicted to pain killers' to show while watching cartoons with the kids on the Watchman. Thanks to all the contributors last week and the people too lazy this week to submit anything thereby allowing me extra time to do my review. I gotta go back to the poetic reviews. Greg Fraser Master of Funk http://users.imag.net/~lon2251/Gallery Greg Fraser GTIS - PWGSC 457 Richmond St., 6th Floor London, ON N6A 3E3 voice (519) 675-3409 fax (519) 645-4304
