Some comments on this week's images in the photoforum gallery at <http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html>: Pini Vollach -- More Sand -- But where are the lawyers? (relating to punchline for silly joke). My eye keeps wanting to make the leaf into a shell, since as we all know sand is found on beaches and leaves are not and shells are. I like that it violates my expectations that way. And the very low-angle light is nice of course. Jeff Spirer -- Carny -- Nice smile, lived-in face, very carnival-like collection of silly prize stuffed things in the back. The skin-tone is so dark, though; I have trouble believing it's a reasonable representation of her skin. (I see a lot of photographers setting skin tones much darker than looks right to me). D.L. Shipman -- Not your grandmother's maillot -- The definition I found seems at odds with what's pictured. Darryl Gage -- Alicia -- Too much not my type of photograph to have any meaningful comments, sorry. Per Ofverbeck -- I like the lighting on this very much. Grazing the plaster to show the texture, and showing up the lettering molded into the glass of the bottles, and modeling the smooth white curved caps nicely, all at once. It's a very textural image. Are those kind of bottles still a current item over there, or are they old? Bob Talbot -- Newlyn -- Nice use of an airplane window. And good job getting the contrast back up where it should be (all the more striking with the low cloud/fog down there). jIMMY Harris -- Horses on a hot day -- Nothing looks sharp here. And the horses under the tree are down far enough in the shadows there's little detail. I like the use of the front fence. Leslie Spurlock -- After the Gunfight (Haiti: Feb/Mar 04) -- I can't really see anything. No facial expressions, it's hard even to see hand and finger positions (holding things, or gesturing). The empty lower third is an interesting choice that I'm not sure is a mistake; it lends a distinctly different look to the photo at least. John Palcewski -- Bride of Christ -- The unsharp bright red flowers at the lower left are a problem. I like the small sun-patch on the floor. The rest of the room and the woman are pushed awfully far into the shadow part of the curve, meaning I can barely make out her facial features. It almost makes her a generic person, I guess. C J R Strevens -- Having Fun on the beach -- Those image-generating toys are getting better. Yeah, it's obviously computer generated -- but lots of aspects of the scene have realistic-looking complexity to them. The shadows are pretty hard-edged for the amount of cloud showing in the sky. Thanks to everybody who particpated in the gallery this week! -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
