On 06/04/2011 04:46 AM, ADavidhazy wrote: > The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated June 4, 2011. Authors with work now on display at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html include: > Yoram Gelman - Pigs at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, NY Well, certainly, the nose makes the picture for me. Well caught. The picture is sort of a messy jumble to begin with, but finding the nose is a nice surprise. I wish the background in the upper right was a bit more out of focus (or perhaps darker?), because my eye keeps going up there for no good reason. The upper left feeding trough at an angle just adds to the chaotic feeling, so I think it's good there. Although, as an experiment, you could crop out everything except for the pigs. It might become an abstract with a nose popping out. The pigs are well exposed, in both senses of the word. > Dan Mitchell - Dried Hogweed Nice depth of field, and nicely exposed and focused. There isn't too much else to catch my eye, though; the background is too dark to lend much interest. > Sherie Taylor - Hall way I like hallways, too, but for me, this one isn't particularly striking. The columns and the light is nice, however. In this sort of picture, I think it is critical that the horizontals are perfectly level; this one is a bit tilted. Part of the reason is that your lens is producing some distortion on the ceiling; the far end is closer to level. > John Palcewski - Oh, Deer! Well, it's a nice meeting of the watcher and the watched. I think this picture could use a bit more post-processing to make it look less like a simple snapshot. Perhaps more saturation of the colors, or perhaps turning the whole think into B&W. > Don Roberts = Photographer There are two pictures here that I'd like to see better. The first is that I'd like to see the photographer's face; I have a feeling that his patient frustration (or frustration with his patients) might have been interesting. The other would be a closer view of the mother watching the assistant (or someone) fix up whoever is on the chair. This looks like a nice moment. You did capture it, but it's too far away for me to fully see the emotion of the woman's face. If youi have enough pixels, and if it is sharp enough, you could try an extreme crop. > Rene M Hales - One Greenway Tree in Brown I think I need more contrast in this shot. The IR has pretty much obliterated all the detail, with just the trunk remaining. Perhaps if the grass was slightly darker than the leaves on the tree, instead of the other way around. This picture probably looks a lot better larger, where the details can be seen more easily. > Pini Vollach- These sort of scenes are extremely difficult to meter well, and usually benefit from a graduated neutral density filter to keep the detail in the shadows, and the water from blowing out. You can even buy a cokin ND grad filter and just hold it in front of the lens. I like the photo, but perhaps even burning in the water, and dodging the cliff (or using curve layers with masks) might improve it. Andrew -- http://andrewsharpe.com
