My thoughts about the PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space which
was updated March 17, 2012, and currently on display at
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html.
Rob Talbot - Flower
VERY nice colors, but the flower looks sterile or even dead. The blue
background detracts rather than adds. Perhaps a bit more light on the
side facing the camera would illuminate the black areas of the green and
thus result in a bit of definition or perhaps even depth in that area.
The rimlight adds a nice touch.
Emily L. Ferguson - Lucy Vincent Beach, Chilmark, MA
While I do like the serpiginous edges of the foreground tide, the
overall lack of contrast of the image leaves a rather flat feeling to
the photo. The large rocks in the midground compete with the tidal edge
for dominance and makes the subject of the photo a bit too ambiguous for me.
Bob McCulloch - Lifeboat
Pretty colors, especially on the sunny side of the boat. The big, red
amorphous background mass on the right however almost blends in to the
lifeboat and adds a bit of confusion for me. The hardware and line at
the front of the boat add wonderful interest.
Don Roberts - Kyoto Train Station
There is much to like in this image, but the lack of detail (at least on
my monitor) in the stairs at the bottom is distracting, probably because
it consumes at 20 percent of the photo. The walkway or girder that is
silhouetted from the top center to the left side of the image works
because it is a silhouette.
Howard Leigh - The Ravages of Time
Without the caption, I got a completely different feeling from the
triptych. The center image does show an "alert and vital" woman, but it
is obviously posed. The two side images show a somewhat older woman, but
the left photo shows me a candid of a woman in thought. On the right is
an older woman looking slightly up at the camera with a grab shot look.
I wonder what would have happened if the camera would have been slightly
lower. What the photographer saw and what I see are two different
things. The devastation doesn't come through, although the passage of
time does. This is a very interesting series. I like it a lot.
Thanks to all who contributed as well as Andy and Rosita who made it
possible.
rand
