John, Thanks for looking. I like my pictures to invite the viewer in to look around. Anyhow, "canopic jars" - play on words - Cano pic ture. :-) AZ LOOKAROUND - Since 1978 The Lookaround E-Book FREE COPY http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Re: PF gallery on May 1, 2010 > From: John Palcewski <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, May 01, 2010 9:35 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Here are my comments on this week's gallery. I'll repeat my usual > disclaimer. These are merely my opinions, expressions of my personal > preferences, worth only as much as the coins inside my nearly empty > piggy bank. > > Jim Davis - Storm Over Fuji City An impressive image overall, and > the only thing I can think of to improve it would be to dodge the > lower part just a bit so as to bring out more detail. > > David Small - Naked Cowgirl A disturbing and sad image. It seems > like a violation of privacy--or something vaguely illegal!--but then > she obviously had made the conscious decision to stand in public and > attract attention, like that young, handsome, muscular man in his > Jockey shorts who parades around New York and calls himself The Naked > Cowboy. > > Guy Glorieux - Three colors That's Houston, all right. A cold, > lifeless mass of steel and glass in downtown, surrounded by a maze of > highways and bumper to bumper traffic. I'm projecting, of course. > Bad, painful things happened to me in Houston a long time ago. And I > remember those skyscrapers. Nice image, but...Ugh! Others will > doubtless have a different reaction. > > Dan Mitchell - Country Cottage This soothing, pleasant scene might > be improved by burning in some detail in the white of the cottage. > > Alan Zinn - Canopic An interesting image, but there seems to be too > much going on, which feels like a competition for one's attention. I > go from the girl to the dark basalt statues in the background, and > then to the blue reflection in the glass, to the girl's camera. > Canon? Or Nikon??? > > Hans Klemmer - Girl, Amritsar India A beautiful image, which I > imagine you probably wished was shot with a stop and a half more > exposure. But then better to get it on the fly, as it is, rather than > not at all. > > Emily L. Ferguson - spring morning If it were my image, I think I'd > spend the time and effort in Photoshop shortening that long stick in > the right foreground. Otherwise a most pleasant scene. > > Yoram Gelman - Mist in Patagonia Seems like too much white in the > upper right. I think the shot would be entirely more successful if > you cropped in to include only the lower left third of the image. > > Andrew Sharpe - Boronda Lake, CA Lots of interesting movement in a > fine composition.
