At 10:52 AM -0500 2/4/06, Andrew Davidhazy wrote:
The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated FEB 04 2006. Authors
with work now on display at: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include:
Before I begin the review, I'd like to make a request. Please make
your submission no more than 4"x6" x 72 dpi. When it's necessary to
scroll down a window on a 17" monitor to see the entire image, after
adjusting the window size to the monitor, the image is too long
vertically for the gallery.
Jeff Spirer - Water Fountain
It would never occur to my literal mind to do this, but it's really
neat. I'm not certain why you swiped to the right, however. Did you
have a reason for moving in that direction?
Pini Vollach - Geometry
The title inspires me to notice all the irregularities in the
geometry of the situation. Geometry calls forth, for me, an
implication of regularity and symmetry. I'm not sure I like the
disjunctivity between the title and my little drawstring bag of
implications.
Amazing how hard granite is.
Emily L. Ferguson - More winter experiment
Depth of Field is a really interesting consideration in this set of
experiments. The options are legion and I'm not being anal about my
experiments. But I am trying to bring some deliberation and
deliberacy to the image that I choose as the keeper from each little
set of experiements.
Bill McKinney - Hotel Colorado
I think there's too much data here. The lights on the trunk of the
tree overwhelm me. I can't at all decide where to rest my viewing.
So I think I would crop off some of the tree, maybe half of it and
also I would get up higher so that the hotel does not sit on the
bridge. How nice it would have been if the sun had come out and cast
a brilliant light upon the hotel for just 20 seconds or so while you
were shooting there. Then you could have chosen to have the hotel be
the focal point of the image and still kept the tree with the lights.
D.L. Shipman -
Can't tell whether you were suffering from lack of depth of field, or
used some sort of diffusion filter. If the former, surely you had
plenty of light to get the front boat sharp. If the latter, I'd be
interesting in knowing why you chose that.
Over all there is too much forward space and also too much at the
bottom for my taste. The image is either a vert or much more square.
One does not need so much space in front of the boats to reinforce
that they are moving to the right. It becomes dead air when there's
that much.
Veli Cigirgan - Jewelry
There's a conflict between focal points here - which jewelry do you
really want us to attend to?
If it's both, perhaps I'd feel less tipsy if there were more of a
hint of the other female jewel, not at all necessarily all of it, but
more of it and if it were not quite so blown out. The hot-ness
deflates its importance as one of the jewels, to me.
Trevor Cunningham - calcium deposit
I really am not very happy about how dark the spire is and how
brutally sharp the shadow line is. There is more than a little loss
of data in the dark and, although I suspect you want to avoid the
usual travel type shot here, I think there could be a little more
data in the dark and still make the point.
Steve Hodges - Earthmoving Equipment
I think the biggest problem is that the shovel is behind the board,
so one has to look hard for the bag and the tool which is moving the
sand into the bag. In fact, after some study I still didn't see the
bag until I went back again later. Perhaps a vert with the person
behind her soft but full height would make a more successful report
and get rid of the very sharp board across the right corner to boot.
Museki Abe - Winter 1
Well, snow over there hey? Wish we had some of that here. That
very dark tree in the foreground on the right is in the way. Stand
in front of it and use a shorter lens. I love the way the show sits
on the splayed out bases of the trees and the hanging branches on the
right. That foreground tree is just too harsh.
Don Roberts -Geishas
Interesting. What a shame there's so much green stuff in the
foreground. What happens if you get rid of it?
My thanks to all, especially Andy's crew.
Incidentally, can we make the pop-up window higher by default?
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Emily L. Ferguson
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