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??? My curiosity 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 there'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 lightning's all wrong on him and the scale looks out of true. The woman 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 luminosity 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 humour / street content is in that tattoo. Taking that indelible 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 desperate 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 relating to the image. All in all an interesting bunch of photos. Something to mull over. But where's the art? Bob
