I note so far seven reviews of this week's gallery. Thanks to Pini Achal Les Chris Emily Rich Kostas Did I miss any? Well, now to make it eight. Stuff on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html includes: > Emily L. Ferguson - water lilies Lovely reflection: don't understand the title though. Can't see any actual lillies just white stalks and reflections of some tree trunks. My favorite of this weeks bunch > David Small - Columbus Day Well composed and executed. A lad holding two flags. Can't get excited about it though. Nice separation via selective focus (or was that incidental from needing wide aperture?). Columbus: I wonder if the native Americans celebrate too? > John Warner - Eastbourne Pier Technical quality of scan lets this down big time. Colour neg for sure - a tad underexposed? I wan't to like it bit it's not growing on me: can't wait to see what the other reviewers made of it. Was portrait the right format? There's a lot of ugly sky (no doubt beautiful on the original print) and the seep of the pier appears therefore truncated. It's a silhouette but indistinct. > Shawna Hanel - Stego Plastic? Not quite "other people's art" but a study in ... I'm still trying to resolve that. Highlights are blown out: the rim around the toe nails looks like a mould-artifact. Good idea: disn't work. > Leslie Spurlock - The Egg A somewhat unusual take but it's worked on some levels (not all). Focus is on the egg: the child's clothing is just OOF enough to stop me reading the script on the shirt. Lighting on the egg draws the eye to it but again the blown-out highlight (top right of egg) detracts from the shot. I would have liked this a LOT more if both the egg and fingertips were in focus WITHOUT increasing the DOF. Oh well, you would have needed a tilt lens to do that. A close second (IMO) to Emily's shot. > Dan Mitchell - Harbor A bit too tightly cropped. Not critically sharp. Shadow of the phallus needed to come in from bottom right corner. Could have been a great record shot IF it had been taken well. > Don Meyers - Surf board shop BLURRED. What else needs saying? Four people with no real interaction / purpose. If you wan't to do "voyeur" photography (AKA Street) you would do well to look at David Small's work. If you are gonna show blurred pictures they need to be creative. > Achal Pashine - Saniya I would not pay 75 cents for the picture as presented! The eyes are not critcally sharp and the girl's top is completely blown out - hence distracting. I make no allowance for what the print might look like in real life - as it's shown here it flops. Were the technical flaws corrected I think it would have been quite pleasant for the parent(s). Bob OK, now to read the other reviews. May come back with a summary of any points of real disaggreement. With this many reviews this week ... I expect next will be very lean ;o(
