Thanks for the reminder, Andy.
We know for sure that at least two other people visited the gallery, namely
Chris with a somewhat cryptic set of comments and also Don who has been
waving his hand.
Here are my two bits:
Allan Rosen-Ducat - Desert Sky
An interesting composition and interesting rendering with the sepia tone.
As a pinhole enthousiast, I should be happy about the general softness of
the image. But I find it is far too soft to my own taste (as I see it on
the screen) and I can't determine if this is caused by the JPG-compression
or if it is embedded in the original image. I ran a modest unsharp mask
with CS (170, 0.9, 1) and got something much closer to what I would enjoy
seeing.
Karl Shah-Jenner -
Convincing things that can be done with a phone nowadays... Carl, can you
make long-distance phone calls with your DSLR or do simply you use it to
play music MP3 or listen to DivX movies...
Laurenz Bobke - Breaking Sun
I like the composition but I find the direct light from the sun a bit
overpowering at the expense of the hills which disappear in the dark
foreground. A touch of dodging would help the hills to come back while
preserving the dramatic sky.
Trevor Cunningham - faces
Trevor, I'm afraid I don't understand this photograph.
Don Roberts - Petroglyphs
A fascinating document: has anybody been able to decypher the meaning of
these engravings. I'm sure that there is a wealth of knowledge that we
never picked up from the ancients because of the lack of understanding of
their culture and language. The "superior white man" syndrome.
Emily L. Ferguson - Wealth gone mad
Well done commercial photograph. What is a CVS?
Guy Glorieux - Leviathan
I like the Kafkaiesque feeling of the image. This is a well-known
abandonned grain elevator in the old port of Montreal. It's future is under
review and there are groups of people on either side of the decision to keep
it up or dismantle it. As a testimony of the history of the city I would
want to see it preserved.
Kambizz Kashani - Norooz - Eid-e Shoma Mubarak
A very beautiful collage to celebrate Norooz (and interesting information on
a celebration which was unknown to me). I like the concept of blending
images into a larger document. The surrealists and the anti-nazi artists
used the process a lot in the 1930's as a powerful tool to express complex
statements.
It would be quite interesting to do a collage project involving the PF
members.
Christopher Strevens - Feet
"Sitting quietly hoping we are not nuked today"...
Chris, if you look carefully, the nuke is just in front of you feet,
disguised as a stool's foot on wheels, just seconds from being launched.
Careful now... Don't move your feet... It'll triger the launch.
Pini Vollach - Barcelona
Wish I were there... A bit too soft an image for me: is it the JPG
compression?
That's it folks.
Thanks for submitting.
Thanks for reading these comments (if you got this far).
Greetings to all,
Guy
----- Original Message -----
From: "ADavidhazy" <andpph@xxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:17 PM
Subject: Anyone visit the PF gallery this week?
The topic line of this message is just a "rhetorical" question ... there
are 10 photographs on display and they are scheduled to be updated this
weekend and so far I am not sure there has been any constructive banter
about the images! Note that there are only 2 contributions (Leigh and
Ferguson) for next update. In case you want to see the PF gallery find it
at:
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html
If you maybe would like to contribute to it but need directions go to:
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery-sub.html
Andrea for the PF exhibits staff
