Okay, let's see if I remember how to do this :-).
Comments on the group's gallery, which is at
<http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html>:
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Fred Hecker --**The Open Door, 22nd Street off of 11th Avenue, NYC--Nice
colors, and nice reflections of the tree branches. The door itself is
relatively uninteresting, and the stanchion holding it open is just on
the edge of visibility and hence distracting.
Jim Snarski--Glacier National Park--The clouds and mountains are looking
a tad painterly, which doesn't fit that well with the detailed water
surface. And I wish the boat weren't absolutely head-on to the camera.
Nice colors in the distant mountains, though. (Am I seeing partly
attempts to overcome haze, maybe?)
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Lara Ashby-- <javascript:{}>My Garden Where I Live--You may mean the
title to simply describe the location, but given the image I find myself
reading it from the point of view of the stone figure :-). That figure
in a non-elegant garden, I think mostly vegetables, is a nice contrast.
Choosing to make the figure look upright, with a very definite tilt to
the horizon, works pretty well. It helps that it's big enough that one
can't entertain the hypothesis that you were trying for straight and
just didn't quite make it.
Marilyn Dalrymple-- <javascript:{}>Shadows--I like the strong diagonals
from the blinds, and the variation in how individual slats render, and
it's good to have something over that to provide some variety and make
it less stark. It's enough of an abstract that I'm not really able to
analyze that much about it.
Dan Mitchell-- <javascript:{}>Eye-level--I like the pun in the title,
and also the juxtaposition of the ultra-modern wheel design against the
quite old buildings (Parliament is right by that bridge, but it must be
the other side, because that's definitely not what I'm seeing).
Bob McCulloch-- <javascript:{}>Boots--Quite effective as a memorial, I
see why you had to take it. Your shot doesn't look quite sharp anywhere
to me; though it's hard to be sure with a matte subject that's there
because it's worn. And the stones are too bright (not that I can see
what to do about it off-hand).
Emily L. Ferguson-- <javascript:{}>Niagara Falls - postcard shot--I like
that. There sure is a lot of water falling in the neighborhood! The
rainbow makes a nice tie to bridge the relatively uninteresting
landscape between the two parts of the falls in this shot.
Lea Murphy-- <javascript:{}>Elaina, wedding day--That's nice, especially
for shooting that close to the backgdrop. A number of edge issues,
though. Am I seeing just the edge of a stud in the far side of her
nose, maybe? Or what's that little white spot along the edge? And of
course at the bottom the tiny intrusion of the green and pink, I guess
probably floral stuff she's holding. And you can't crop that off too
easily I don't think because of the jewelry in the middle of the bodice.
Thanks to everybody who's participating in the gallery this week!
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David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
