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Greetings from Norfolk, UK
Yet another set of good pictures.
James B. Davis First
Loon
A very nice study of the bird, known as the Great
Northern Diver in the UK, (Scientific name Gavia Immer). The water is well
rendered, and looks 'wet', and the bird is well defined. The eye is
lacking, I assume due to the compression needed for the submission.
I think that a crop of the foreground water could
be useful, as it adds little andsits the subject very centrally, this could be
done just below the rather nice reflection of the bird.
Thomas Monet's
Garden
This picture has a good lead in to the overall
image, one is lead up through the water to the rockery? at the head of the
water. The large willow provides a block to the right of the picture, and
there is a lot of interest in the water and plants. This picture suffers
badly lack of definition, due to limited pixels - photoshop reports only 72 per
inch, and on enlarging the picture this is apparent.
The picture though is pleasant, and full of the
atmosphere of a nice sunny summers day.
Pashine Stamford University Main
Quad
Never having been to Stamford University I cannot
get a real feeling for this picture, it is well taken, the colours are
interesting, and the siloette effect produced by the trees is interesting.
I find the composition rather too central for my taste, and the highlights in
the wall/building too obtrusive, some work in subduing them would be worthwhile
I think.
Gill Bengall Tiger
A nice picture of the tiger, with the detail of the
animal well defined. I tried mirroring this picture (left to right) and
found, to my taste, that the picture was improved. I also tried masking
off the (flipped) left hand side, this had some effect, but I feel that the
tiger needs more space to move into. The highlights in the grass are
slightly distracting, and could usefully be recduced, without loosing them
completely.
The detail in the tiger is very well defined, the
wiskers being a major example of this, together with the hair in the
ears.
I like the picture, but prefer it flipped left
to right.
Lucas Hard to
Port
A very nice atmospheric view of a lake/sea inlet
with the foreground filled by articles that are fitting to the scene,
interesting in themselves, but not too distracting. The Red and White life
ring is nicely positioned, and the derigable on its mount fits in well, also the
crane holding it breaks up what would otherwise be a booring sky. The
background (for want of a better term) is a very nice view of the hills and
mountains, with very good recession due to the colours (blues etc).
The path which goes from bottom left to mid right,
leads one through the picture with the white railings being sufficiently subdued
as to not drag the eye.
Talbot
White
Obvioulsy this does something for the
photographer, the contrast of colours and textures one assumes. I am
afraid that it does not appeal to me.
Purely technically it is a nice composition, with
the white forming a diagonal, and the blob on an intersection of
thirds.
Stevens
Conversation
A nicely presented picture, well composed, and
coloured. This picture owes a great deal to post exposure work, and the
impresion of a painting is well used. I find the loss of definition in the
main subjects hair (merging with background) due to similarity of colour
disturbing, and the relatively large highlight between the two subjects is
somewhat distracting. The remainder of the background is well toned
down.
The impression of an evening out is present, one
assumes that this was taken in an area of clubs and evening discos
etc.
Leigh
A very nice, near monochrome, picture. The
reflections of the trees in the pools of water is excelent, the shapes coming
together well. It has an almost ghost or eirie quality about
it. The road/path leads one into the picture, and whilst it leaves on the
left, the eye is taken up via the gap between the two main trees to view all the
picture. A nice picture, but I would find it dusturbing if hung
on my wall.
Jeff Spirer Prayer
A beautiful caught in the moment black and white
picture. The subject is well rendered, with the background very well
subdued. The man standing behing the subject is not intrsive, and the
subject is presented in a very powerful picture. The rope going off to the
right could have been subdued slightly, but too much of this would have removed
the atmosphere of the ring.
Wrigley The old mill
This is my picture I will not
comment, that is up to others please.
Richard.
"I have yet to see any problem, however
complicated, which when looked at in
the right way, did not become still more complicated" Poul Anderson |
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