Here are my absolutle free opinions of the images in this weeks PF gallery displayed at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html. Enjoy. Emily L. Ferguson (The new cupola) - I would like this better perhaps if I couldn't tell what the blurry part of the image was but the two light spots show up the grass and soil and I can tell its a reflection in a puddle. The composition really doesn't thrill me and with the angles and lines of the cupola, I really want what I would call a good composition. Jim Davis (Kawasemi Kloseup) - I trust you used the best of your $5k equipment for this one. I do not find the background distracting or particularly interesting which is good. It looks like a normal, non obtrusive, blurry background created by a long lens. The tones work very well with the little chirper who looks absolutely fabulous. Beautiful plummage (like the Norwegian Blue), excellent exposure and clarity and I like the slanted branch and the way the little pecker's beak doesn't quite touch the branch. Excellent shot. jIMMY Harris (Laurie and Colt) - Very nice jIMMY. My favourite of your barnyard series. Perhaps a bit more light on Laurie's face but the colt looks good. The hands look slightly too big for Laurie's face. Clone out that white scratch between the colt's ears ok? Lovely smile. Kostas Papakotas (bananas !) - I love the way you got the green pants, blue car, red car and yellow text. Very primary of you. Did you plan that? The way you printed the title upside down and the angle of the horizon work really well with the theme. Really nice. Dan Mitchell (Harbor) - I recognize the cleat from your audabon shots in the past weeks. I get the feeling you're fond of that shape. With it being so prominent in the front I get the feeling it is supposed to be the subject but the entire scene is in focus and I'm distracted by everything behind it. I can't seem to find a starting or an ending point but at the same time there's so much detail that I can't just take in the whole thing at once. David Small (At the Met) - A photo of a man in a jacket looking at a picture of a man in a jacket looking at a picture of somethign we can't see. Perhaps its a man in a jacket. I get the feeling you waited for someone in a jacket to walk that way and I think I've seen very similar shots before. Is there something else that I don't see in this shot? Something else you were going for? Thanks to the gallery staff and Prof D as well as the contributors to this week's gallery. Greg Fraser Master of Funk http://users.imag.net/~lon2251/Gallery I
