The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated 28 Feb. 04. Authors with work now on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include:
Don Roberts - Guardians
A little too much sky, and maybe take out the far left statue and cut some off the bottom. Wonderful concept.
Jim Davis - Reed Bunting
Hmm. Why the sepia? I think if you're going to sepia you should take out most of the info to the right and a lot from the bottom as well. Really like the sharpness and clarity.
John Mason - Stage Door
Love the concept but what's that strange gray area between the nose and fiddle scroll? Seems like maybe you took something out with the clone stamp but then didn't replace it with something logical to the scene.
Trevor Cunningham - Terran Tissue Arrangement A
Interesting and has the capacity to become lovely, but I can't tell whether you're shooting across at a vertical area or down at a horizontal area or along a sloped area. Assumptions are always curious. the other week I submitted a pic of the sand lines that the receding tide leaves on the beach and I don't think anyone was confused about which way it was being looked at (down). We assume that if it's a beach it's not overhead or rising sheerly.
But do we know for certain about that?
This is a similar situation. Except that I don't have the background to decipher the orientation and would like some clue in the image.
Amy West - Poker
How tied we get to captions. I suppose I'd eliminate a lot of the black on the right, top and bottom. And somehow the darkness of the overall image and the lack of general sharpness makes either for a point of view or an impression of its being a snapshot.
Christopher Strevens - Train to London
Too much info on the left, needs to be vertical, deemphasize sky, increase contrast, use tiny aperture to get sunstar effect with train headlamps.
WRGill - Point Lobos State Reserve, Carmel, CA
Surf blown out badly, too much trees all around, make panoramic, very cyan, use 1 or 2 stop grad to tame surf and bring up sky, wait for end of day to get something along the horizon.
Per Ofverbeck - Wheel
Not sure why the wheel is in the lower-ish left corner. It would be interesting to see this shot straight on the axel with somewhat fewer barnboards on the right, but without the wheel being centered in the frame. It would be nice to have some slightly more intense highlights somewhere.
Achal Pashine - Afterglow, Mono Lake, CA
Too late after the sun went down. Not enough sky action. One takes what one can get when one doesn't live there.....
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Emily L. Ferguson
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