I *really* should be just going back to sleep, since I'm fighting a
nasty cold and have a wedding to photograph Saturday afternoon and a
Turkey to prepare and cook Sunday/Monday, and since either my
batteries or my charger have gone crazy (both batches of AA NiMH have
had batteries that failed to charge; none of these batches are over
two years old, and it's a good intelligent charger I bought from
Thomas Distributing (the batteries, too)).
But there were several photos I really wanted to comment on, and I've
been feeling bad for *ages* (roughly since the last time I actually
did gallery comments) about not participating in this unique and
excellent aspect of Photoforum.
On 12/23/06, ADavidhazy temp in Seattle <andpph@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated DEC 23 2006. The
gallery is at: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html
Adrienne Bennett - Scene from Crown Heights -- Probably this photo is suffering from my seeing it out of the context it was intended to be seen in. On its own, there's nothing that indicates the Black community on the far side of the street. And I don't like the big blown-out background areas to the upper left, and I don't like the blur in the man in the foreground (and the whole photo, really).
kombizz Kashani - stArr --Ooh, this is gorgeous. We don't have many things like that to photograph here in Minnesota (mostly they seem to date from times when labor was cheaper, or perhaps practicality was less valued). Is the original painted, or a mosaic, or something else? I followed it up to your site and I see I'm right that it's the inside of a dome.
Laurenz Bobke - Cute Prisoner -- The title makes sense with the photo I see (racoon standing up behind chainlink fence), but the description doesn't. Anyway, he sure is a cute little guy, and he's sure got *something* in the paw at the left of the photo.
Marilyn Dalrymple - Asian Pear -- having all three of the peacock feather eyes land in the shadows makes the picture look somehow dingy to me. And the peach itself looks artificial somehow -- is it possible that *one* color channel is clipped in the top-left highlights on the peach? Anyway, it seems to me too bright for the rest of the picture.
Lea Murphy - clown one -- He's a cute little guy! If I were doing him with a lensbaby, I'd take advantage of tilt to keep the front of all the disks of the clown sharp, myself. And the "horizon" isn't straight. The tonal gradation from bottom surface to back surface is quite nice.
D.L. Shipman - My Bichon -- Awwww. Not a breed I know well, and I have some prejudice issues with many of the smaller breeds, but heck, who could not like such a friendly face?
Gregory david Stempel - A Scow In The Fog -- That's kinda interesting. It actually does look rather like some old film efforts I've seen, which is not reliably the case with modern photoshop jobs.
Peeter Vissak -- I like hearing phrases like "my latest personal exhibition in the Pärnu Museum of New Art" on this list (and congratulations of course). And I'm guessing that's you along with the photo; if so, thanks, I like to have some idea what the people I'm chatting with look like. The scene looks gorgeous, though I won't attempt to make any pronouncements about enlargement technologies from a web photo of a displayed print. Not that 90x110cm is much stretch for 6x6.
Thanks to all who participate in the gallery this week!
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