The Photoforum Gallery is at <http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html> Comments on this weeks photos: Karen Habbestad -- Sunset -- Like most other commenters, I like this a *lot*. For me it's mostly the colors that do it -- though any unsharpness or lots of other compositions probably would have put me off. So it's the colors plus a lack of anything *wrong* with the rest of it :-). Anyway, very nice photo! David Dyer-Benent -- Me! Thanks for the very nice comments from several people. Square is an unusual choice for me, and of course this one is cropped out of a rather rectangular frame. Dirty little secret: the man whose silhouette is at the bottom left was moved, he would have been nearly completely out of the frame if I'd left him where he really was. I don't usually do that kind of thing, but this picture seemed to benefit quite a lot from moving him in tighter. Roger Eichhorn -- More nice colors, for one thing. The red/oranges actually run through the first three photos nicely, I think, and the blue trim around the arches picks up my blues. More proof, if we needed it, that the gallery gnomes actually know what they're doing. Nice job on the exposure, the outside is only a little hot, and the much dimmer interior shows all its colors really brilliantly anyway. Renate Volz -- A Smile from Popeye -- *Both* of the left wings, and the eyes in focus! Very nicely done, and the colors are excellent also. And with the very small touches of orange, still conforming to the color scheme even. Jim Snarski -- Painted Lady -- The background is nicely mottled, and a nice collection of colors; parts of it make me slightly suspicious it's been worked on, but even if that's true I don't mind. The righthand plant stalk is either showing poor lens performance, or else is just the wrong amount out of focus; it looks harsh and unclear at the same time. The left outer wing of the butterfly looks quite good, sharp and not jagged. Lea Murphy -- Lauren's graduation portrait -- I like the expression quite a lot, and shooting from slightly above is working well with the hat I think. Probably also helping minimize the sunlit road in the background -- but the very bright bar across the top, starting *just* above the front corner peak of the hat, is very distracting, not only too bright but also not matching the color palette of the rest of the picture. I've found that spontaneous portraits are sometimes among the best -- when they're any good at all. It's certainly worth trying when the opportunity presents itself. And congratulations to you and Lauren! Elson T. Elizaga -- Siblings -- I like the contrasting pair of faces a lot. The right head seems too close to the top edge to me, but it doesn't look like you had a lot of time to work with, either. Allan Rosen-Ducat -- Clouds -- Nice to see the deep blue sky and the bright white puffy clouds and the dark ones all at once. Looks just a bit artificial for some reason to me; the blue sky tone might be off? Or the dark cloud at bottom left and top right are fighting a bit. Or something. (I won't be shocked to find it's a completely straight print; it still gives me the impression I described, but that might be a reason for you not to care.) Marilyn Dalrymple -- Which Came First? -- This manipulation looks mechanical and artificial and rather harsh to me, and that doesn't go with the subject too well. Although the right two eggs come out rather interesting, if that's what got you doing this I can understand the urge. Oh, and reptiles were laying eggs millions of years before there were chickens, so the egg definitely came first :-). Christopher Strevens -- I'm happy with life -- And the subject (I want to say "she" but it's not completely clear; doesn't matter) does look *really* happy with things. Nice color pallette, too -- though I'm glad they put this one far away from the first three, because I'm pretty sure the colors clash. I'm not that happy with the superimposed texture, but of course I don't know what it looked like before that. Thanks to everybody participating in the gallery this week! -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <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/>
