At 8:16 AM -0500 3/8/03, ADavidhazy wrote:
Very pleasing image to me. The only thing I wonder about is whether the riders are enclosed inside those red canvas covers! On my monitor there's ever so slightly too much magenta in the reds, so that scarlet isn't quite the word for the color.The PhotoForum member's gallery/exhibit space was updated 9 March 03. Authors with work now on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include: Dan Mitchell - Study in Scarlet
Look at that. A coupon for wedding pictures for the first four weddings. I wonder, does the bride keep the coupon card, or the groom! I suppose it's the groom since the pile of stuff looks like it came out of some pants pockets.Robert G. Earnest -
And I guess he'll be on to the third wedding since the phone in the motel's on hold! And I believe I see a wedding ring in the pile of stuff.
I think I would have lit the card even brighter, maybe even pushed a specular halo around it in photoshop. Corny but maybe more effective.
Very classic composition, those bright rectangles make me wonder what they're for. All in all a very conventional representation, however, to me.Gregory david Stempel - Trucks
Well, I'm having some trouble here. I don't see any crosses, much less two, and neither do I see any faces, blurred or otherwise. Perhaps I'm being too literal minded today?David Thompson - Double Cross
There are a whole lot of very graceful things here. Especially I like the tree reflections and the way the fog tones them back, and the tidy piles of brush in the flooded section beyond the edge of the creek. The frontmost tree is a bit dark however, it grabs attention. It's well placed, however, by the photographer, so that it doesn't steal my attention completely. Standing back from it and zooming so that it was in the same place in the composition would have allowed some fog to tone the darkness down a bit, then the elements would have been in slightly better balance.Jim Davis - foggy morning in the park
Well, yes. That's what it seems to be. But I don't care for that turquoise at all. And I'd like to flower petals to be more petal-like and less digitally manipulated for non-petalian texture. So I guess this really isn't very attractive to me. On to the next.jIMMY Harris - Indian Paintbrush
Seems a bit premature for that ponytail. Imagine how nice the touch of backlight might have looked if the roughed up hair had just been hanging down the back of the little head. I'm very uncomfortable with that uneven doorway. It doesn't help the bottle to appear as though it's being tipped up, in fact the bottle is so level that I'm not convinced the milk is actually getting to the throat. The next shot in the series might have been the more convincing one to me.Peeter Vissak - Drinking milk
Well, if these guys are jigging out there I'd have gotten them fishing houses. That does not look like much fun at all. It's hard to comment on the composition of the elements in this image except to say that the situation calls to me for much more work and thought about how to compose it.Richard Cooper - Fishing
Happens a million times every day all over the world, and most of the time everyone involved in it is slightly unsharp, either in their seeing or in their sense of self. I guess this image speaks to that somewhat, being not particularly sharp and needing some light on the face of the seer.Jim Snarski - Street Seen
A little bit higher. But such lovely old world tones, even with contemporary facades above the roofs. Might have been nice to curtail the depth of field so that the facades of those apartment buildings were so soft that the old roofs stood out from them, however.Guy Glorieux - Quebec City - Roofs in the Old Town
Well, yes. Lambs have tails. I bet most people on this list didn't know that. But the lambing has already happened when the tails are that long and the lambs have hair. It's a real shame that there are no eyes or faces anywhere. Somehow it makes the image look like it happened accidentally while the photographer was trying to shut the camera off and put it in the camera bag.Christopher Strevens - Lambing at Bockets Farm
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