| The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated May 22, 2010. Authors with work now on display at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html include: Dan Mitchell - Washing. This is an image that pleasantly surprised me. I wasn't expecting much from the thumbnail and the larger image really looks great. The shadows are fantastic and that diagonal brace and its shadow really strengthens the image. Well seen. John Palcewski - Bumper Sticker. As an image this isn't too impressive but I do really love the sentiment of the sticker. I think it's interesting how the car logo looks a bit like an eye. Jim Snarski - Predator. Seriously...HOLY MOLY. This is just wonderful. Everything that should be out of focus is and all the really good stuff is tack sharp. I love that hairy red stem going all the way through the frame and the insect is placed well in the image. Impressive. D.L. Shipman - Female Cloudless Sulfur (Phoebis sennae). Another really lovely image. The modeling on the wings is fantastic. And the way the light rims the back edge of the wings to set the butterfly off from the background is just delightful. I find the top background a bit distracting but I know that with this type of image it's often 'shoot now, worry about the background later.' I'd encourage you to darken it down a bit, especially those things that are white, and see if that doesn't better force our eye to the butterfly only. Well done. Trevor Cunningham - small sunflowers. Lovely clarity though the mid-tones are bit muddled for my taste. That may be the way IR goes? I don't know for certain, I've never shot it. I think this composition is nice and I like the great texture you show on the petals and the center of the flowers. The two white highlights in the top right quadrant distract my eye as does the one in the lower right corner. If those were darkened up a bit I think this would be much stronger and would keep the eye more focused on the flowers. Fun stuff, this. Bob Sull - French Creek Steps. I think your composition is pretty strong here but there is no real contrast in this image; everything seems rather of the same tonal value to me. Since you're trying HDR I'd say GO FOR IT and really punch up your shadows and maybe even some of your mid-tones and let this puppy rip. Pini Vollach - Untitled. You know this image rocks, right? And there's no pun intended. I really like the contrast of the stones and how you've managed to capture depth, front to back, in this image. I really like what's going on with the right side of the image and how, moving across to the left you get 'let out' just about the same time the focus begins to soften. Part of me hopes you also took an image of this without the branch...I'd love to see it both ways. Very nice. Andrew Sharpe - Infrared Tree, San Francisquito Creek, 2009. This is more the tonal values I expect when I think of infrared.You've nailed that, I think. Compositionally there is too much going on in this photograph for me. It's very busy which ends up making it appear messy with nowhere for my eye to rest. Anyone else noticing that the submissions to the gallery improve when there's more gallery reviews? Maybe I'm dreaming that up but then again, maybe not. Good work all. |
