> -----Original Message----- > From: rand flory [mailto:ferret@wyoming.com] > > Greg Fraser – “Rail Song” > > http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/fraser.html > > When I looked at the thumbnail, I though, “What in the world > did Fraser do? > He tilted one of his compositional masterpieces!” And I > didn’t think I was > going to like the result. Far out! That's exactly what I thought when I first looked at the negative! How could I have done that? I used to get my film developed and printed at a minilab and no matter how hard I tried, I could never get a level horizon or properly framed image. Then one day I looked at the negatives and found out the printer was randomly cropping 1/4" off my 35mm negatives. Thus my transition to black and white and home processing. > Then I opened the full image. Omigosh! Fraser has NOT lost > his touch. The > bricks above provide the stability with their perfect levelness. The > downward slant toward the left of the top rail is buffered on > the left with > black trim above gives the whole image some character, as > does the trashed > basket behind the rail. But the pièce de résistance of this > photograph is > the white diagonal coming from the left. > > And Fraser was able to see this scene and know that it would work in > black-and-white. You black-and-white shooters are to be > admired. You see > things I cannot yet see. This is my favorite image of the week. You do have to look at things a little differently but then again you have the use of filters that help you manipulate the image in ways you can't do with color. Thanks for the comments Rand. Greg
