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>Lea, what a lot of civilians don't get is that this is damned hard,
exhausting work.<
Isn't that so true with
so many occupations and crafts? When you watch a machine operator or
someone at other occupations, they make it look so easy that you
think, "I could do that, no sweat".
Walt
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John,
Thanks for your insightful review.
The
funniest part was where you mention the older children 'smiling as
directed.'
Children of that age don't do much as directed, smiling at
a camera being, in my experience, darn near top of the list. I thought to
have them use their playground smiles but I was too worn out that day to
drag the slide and swing up to the studio. Another day,
perhaps.
Lea
all will be well
On Oct 2, 2010,
at 10:44 AM, John Palcewski <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Lea Murphy - Rachel, Josh and Edyn  This is a
technically perfect image, and doubtless the parents are delighted, but it
suffers from the lifelessness of most arranged and posed commercial studio
images. Â The two older children are smiling as directed but they are
not as genuinely happy as they would be in a more natural state while on a
playground or at the beach or in an amusement park. Â The infant is
caught in a good position and _expression_, but likely is responding to an
adult's voice. Â The artsy border seems wholly unnecessary and
artificial.
>
> Andrew Sharpe - Cactus leaf  This is a
somewhat interesting black and white study but not exactly
compelling.
>
> Rand Flory - Surprise Lake  The harsh
overexposed pale rocky areas need to be burned in or better yet the image
should have been made a stop or two down. Â A strong argument here for
bracketing.
>
> Pablo Coronel - 10AM Â Not much is going
on in this rocky wall. Â The shadows seem to be of church spires, but
then what's the mass to their right? Â The time of day as a title
seems irrelevant to the visual subject matter.
>
> Dan Mitchell
- Rooftops  A very busy collection of buildings in suburbia, taken
from a relatively high elevation, perhaps from the window of a departing or
arriving airplane. Â Nothing stands out, captures
attention.
>
> Trevor Cunningham - darkling beetle  I
never knew cats ate insects until one day on the patio of my villa in Italy
my lean and mean Calico leaped two feet straight in the air and snagged a
buzzing dragonfly, then greedily chewed it up. Â This bug looks like
it came from outer space.
>
> Christopher Strevens - The happy
Priests. Â Sorry but as a former Catholic and quite familiar with that
body's institutionalized pedophelia and decades-long coverup, I can only
wince, even though these folks probably are Protestants, since three of them
are women.
>
> Emily Ferguson - Harvest Moon  Moody,
dreamy shot. Â Romantic.
> Yoram Gelman - Drip Dry  This
would have been much more successful an image if the sky had not been
overcast. Â Too much white in the
background.
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