Re: PF Galleries on 05 FEB 05

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Craft (not art) now on display at
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html  includes:



Pini Vollach - Long - house mystery
An interesting picture curiously presented.  The slope is so marked I
can't believe it was accidental.  I like the scene as shown.  I get
the feeling of being there, smelling the smoke of the fire. Drinking
obscenely sweet tea from a glass???

Mu curiousity won't let go though?  Why 5 degrees out of true?



Rich Mason -
Fake?

After telling us last week's brilliant image was for real ther's for
sure something very very fishy about this one.  Either that or the
lighting / focus is playing some pretty weird tricks on my eyes.  Do
streetphoto guys cheat?  Well, they don't call it cheating but
"enhancement".

The big bloke in the middle just looks WRONG.  So wrong I can't really
believe it's a fake: the lighting's all wrong on him and the scale
looks out of true.  The womam in the distant background looks sharp,
so does the man in the hat yet the woman with the bottle - distance
wise between the two of them -  looks soft, slightly out of focus.

I confess, basically I don't like the image.  I'm just looking long
and hard wondering if it's a response to one of last week's reviewers
who suspected Rich had been cutting and pasting assorted characters
into a scene :)



Qkano - Doorway
a woman stood in a doorway so what


Jeff Spirer - Pajaros
WTF are those dark blobs in the sky?  I'm assuming they are birds but
I'm not totally sure.

Nope, I don't understand this one Jeff.




D.L. Shipman - Anhinga and Heron
Lovely capture and arrangement of the birds.

Something very grey about the image though:maybe it was a grey day.
The heron's head is the only part of the image with any luminocity but
for me it's not enough.  A case for tweaking curves a little?

As to the camera.  There are two round "features" in the sky.  Was
there some dust on the sensor?  They look like the features I used to
get with the EOS RT with dust on the pellicle mirror.




David Small - I love mom
>From the thumbnail I was surprised: David Small showing us an OPA
(other people's art) photo.  Where's the art in that.  But no, full
scale the humor / street content is in that tattoo. Taking that
indellible marker with you is a real boon.

1)  I can's help seeing another face peeking through the man's belly
btw.
2)  A quality photographic rendition of the OPA.  No sign of the
camera shake/focus problems you get on your covert street stuff.


John Mason - Snowstorm, Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri
A pleasant scene well presented.

What more is there to say.  It's cropped exactly how I would present
it.

Well done.




Peeter Vissak -
A grey barren scene.  The grey snow (it is snow?) with a grey sky and
a grey reflection.  It's not lifting my spirits - SAD as they are.
I'm desparate for a ray of sunshine.

I just checked in PS because this looked to me on a slant.  Wow, a
whole half degree out of kilter.  It looks worse than that though: so
I guess the false horizon on the right half is exaggerating the lean.

back to the scene: it's quite eerie actually.




Terry L. Mair - Misty Mourning
The title?  Who died.

Another misty scene: this time the mist is green. I get the feeling it
needs a minor bit of colour balancing.  Auto-levels takes away the
green mist and, for me anyway, improves the shot. Once so changed, I'm
them able to appreciate the early morning (or was it mourning)  light
after all.




Emily L. Ferguson - South Beach sunset colors
I'm interested in this as a pattern shot out of curiosity.  What am I
seeing?
There's no other (human) interest beyond the pattern and colours for
me to the extent I'm not really realting to the image.


All in all an interesting bunch of photos.  Something to mull over.
But where's the art?

Bob



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