Folks,
This is David from SpongeFish. Some of you have asked where the
photography (as opposed to YouTube-style videos) are on SpongeFish. You
can find most of the students' work at:
http://www.spongefish.com/lessons/list?order=tagged&tag=photography
Most of them are from Palo Alto HS students whom we worked with to see
how social networking with some easy photo-publishing tools would
enhance their engagement in and out of class. As you might, see there
was a good bit of cross-talk and commentary and a lot of pride in being
able to show and express their nascent techniques. At this point, they
could use some critical mentoring and commentary, so I'm inviting you to
take a look. There is no advertising on the site an everything is free.
Though we are a dot-com and therefore a commercial enterprise, our goal
is to give tools for self-expression and to personalize knowledge.
Photography is going to be one of our arenas of focus, and we are
exploring partnerships with Flickr.com.
Again, feel free to contact me with any questions.
David
Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
At 11:07 AM -0400 10/13/07, ADavidhazy wrote:
The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated OCT 13
2007. Authors
with work now on display at: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html
include:
Roy Miller - Doc Watson
If that's a recent image, it sure is nice to see that Doc is so well.
He's really getting on in years now.
But the image appears to not be sharp, and I suspect Doc moves his
whole body when he's playing so a faster exposure time probably would
have solved the sharpness problem, as well as throwing the people
behind the stage further out of focus.
Rene M Hales - Horse Dreaming
Charming, but I'm not sure the IR makes much of a difference to me in
terms of emotional impact.
D.L. Shipman - Looking out my back door
Shrubbery and weeds are very hard to photograph, I find. Tiny
detailed subjects like that need some kind of treatment but I'm not
sure precisely work. Autumn is when I come back to that problem and
try, again, to figure it out. There is always some sweetness to this
sort of effort - trying to say something about the familiar and
pleasing. As with the horse I'm not sure the IR treatment adds
anything to the situation, at least not for me.
Robert Read -
This is really hard. The kids adlib responses are precious and could
consume many frames. Keeping others out of the line of sight when one
of them does something particularly winning is even more difficult.
Then there are the bubbles which cry out for a slower exposure time to
convey some of their movement and flying about.
This shot starts to try to figure out how to deal. But I think it
needs more time and effort - mostly so you can wait until the perfect
shot comes around.
Christopher Strevens - Blue Ball
Interesting shot, Chris. I kinda like the echo of the platters in the
marble shape, and it's interesting that you contrast the round with
the square.
Linda Buttstead - Braidentown Train Depot
I'm overwhelmed by the low angle, the building is extremely dominating
and makes me feel very small.
Marilyn Dalrymple -
eerie - the branch looked like a thigh bone to me before I even read
your description. The world is very strange, isn't it?
Emily L. Ferguson - Guardian Fence
Just for Chris - interesting that you've never seen corn growing. I
know it's not as common in Europe as it is here, and perhaps that's
the reason you don't recognize it. The orange things are pumpkins, a
kind of squash which the Euro-Americans encountered from the native
peoples on this continent.
Very interesting gallery. I'm looking forward to next week's. Please
contribute.
My thanks to those who have and to our Andy, who takes such good care
of us.
