Gallery here: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html Review here: Achal Pashine - Well I never had any formal photographic training so I'm ignorant to many of the 'rules' which is a shame because I end up enjoying far more images than I should. Like this image for instance. Had the model been much farther to the right, it would feel unbalanced to me. My anal composition style might like to see the model's left eye centered horizontally it might draw me in more but I can live with it the way it is. I find the light diagonal in the background and the angle of the back of the boy's shirt add a subtle tension that works well with his expression. Maybe its not tension but rather a young boys aversion to sitting too long for anything. Peeter Vissak (The End) - The end of Estonia? At least the edge. I like the way the sunlight glides along the edge of the car picking up the dent in the door and the bondo on the wheel well. The lighting is beautiful and the exposure lovely. This reminds me of the many road trips I took 20 years ago in a severely abused Honda. Even Pini's pose is familiar except my passengers never read maps although they did use papers. Cool shot. Christopher Strevens, LRPS (Skin and Blister) - I suppose its a good thing you explained 'skin and blister' although it might have been more interesting to see the comments from non-UK reviewers had you not explained. I suppose its the pose but your sister looks like a nun to me although I'm not sure if they wear earrings or not. Again the positioning of the head within the frame did not bother me although the highlights did. As a memento of the first 30 year family reunion, it seems to do the job nicely. Trevor Cunningham (Old Falucca Sail) - The light is kind of interesting but perhaps there should be more and the shape of the sail is rather dull. Was it moving because it might be cool if it were moving during a long exposure. Laurenz Bobke (Small boat on Daling River (China)) - I don't know if its a rule or not but the way all four visible oars seem to connect at one point is disturbing and although there aren't many elements in the image, I feel confused. I can't find a resting spot. I find the bright highlights in the water really stand out since the rest of the image is all darker, muted colors. I'm drawn away from the people and into the light. Mike Spillmann (cambodian lake) - Phenomenal sky. Were you in the speedboat during this shot and if so, was it moving? I love the color of the water and the way the two objects are so far apart helps impart the feeling of vastness. Cool. Jeff Spirer (Alcatraz) - Another in the ball peen hammer series. The filth doesn't get to me. What draws my attention is the clean, white spot at the base of the toilet. Seriously though the subject doesn't thrill me. I've lived in similar conditions before and its enough to cause me to look away but the composition is interesting and parallax and camera angle are used skillfully putting every line at an angle. Very well done. Dan Mitchell (Winter comes) - So she does. Hey, draw a head on the top of that flower and you've got a red angel with puffy wings and a flowing dress. Oh, I suppose a red angel is a devil isn't it. Just the same I suppose the damned party at Christmas time too. She's certainly vibrant but I find that intense colors like this red cause unnatural looking edges when digitized. I have the same problem with a flower I shot. No matter what I do, it looks pasted onto the background. Nice backlighting though. It shows the veins well. Jimmy Kostiuck - This subject was the most interesting to me this week. It appears to be rows and rows of blank paper but why? Possibly the lighting is so intense the pages appear blank or maybe its part of a modern art exhibit. Perhaps someone just felt like displaying their supply of blank paper instead of mundanely stacking it in a pile. I like the way they are messed up as if people have been rifling through them looking for just the right blank paper. Intriguing for a mind such as mine. I would have cropped the left edge of the shelving though to make it look like the shelves possibly go on for ever. Leslie Spurlock (Monk at Festival) - Love the monk, the light and the guy with the drum to the right of the monk but that bastard directly behind the monk just has to be cloned out. He, she or whatever it is, ruins the shot. Emily L. Ferguson - So is it underexposed or is that just the gray paper that makes it look that way? I really like the shape of them legs and the shadows they cast although rotated 10 degrees or so would prevent the shadow from the rightmost leg lining up with the shadow of the post and making it more interesting to me. Of course that's probably not at all what you were going for or else why put the basket there? Hey I just downloaded the image and adjusted the contrast and brightness and now I can see more details and shading in the backdrop which makes it more interesting although the left side of the backdrop seems to have a greenish caste which I hadn't noticed before but which I now notice in the original shot. Tinted ceiling coloring the light perhaps? Shawna Hanel (Petroleum Byproduct) - Nice ethereal quality like traveling to the afterlife in a movie. Perhaps that's the meaning of life - feeding the petroleum industry until we're used up and discarded in a land fill. I can live with that. My sincere thanks to all the individuals that make up the PF gallery staff. Maybe somewhere on the PF site Andy could give you credit. Or not. Greg Fraser Shipper of Newts "Things are never what they seem" - Vlad http://users.imag.net/~lon2251/Gallery
