On Sat, August 11, 2012 8:27 am, Andrew Davidhazy wrote: > The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated August 11, > 2012. Authors with work now on display at: > http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html include: > > > > Elson T. Elizaga - Extraordinary Claims Beautiful portrait. Since the text is so large, it is the subject, though. This looks like a good commercial ad, but it detracts from the very nicely lit portrait of the boy. I will say, however, that without the text, the boy may very well look simply very unhappy, and not quizzical at all, especially since it looks a bit wet under his left eye, as if he had recently been crying. > John Palcewski - Dogs Well, Jan mentioned you like butts, and here's one, albeit on an amputee. Without the title, the butt's the subject. However, with the title, it becomes rather an amusing photograph, since the titular dogs are really not interested in the photograph, and are themselves on their way out of the frame. > Scott Thurmond - Needs work A good idea, but the composition is too static. Perhaps it would be improved by black and white (or much more saturation, to draw attention to the emblem still proudly sitting on a rather sad carcass), or maybe slanted, or maybe off center, I'm not sure. > Bob McCulloch - Daisies Pretty flowers, shot with a wide aperture. It is simply a pretty picture, and needs something more to be something more. A wider aperture (or longer lens) to further blur the background and isolate the subject would help; the background blur is distinct enough to be a bit distracting. > Dan Mitchell - Cathedral There's something HDR'ish about the photo, yet the windows in front are totally blown out. The verticals are mostly vertical, and that's good, and I'm wondering what's going on in front with a long line of folks in the center and spectators on the side. A wedding? A funeral? A baptism? Seems like a small affair, though, dwarfed by the number of empty seats. So the question becomes, what is the subject? The tall arches are the most distinct and easy to see, and look as though their exposure was adjusted in post. So, that's the subject for me. If that was the intended subject, that's good. > Yoram Gelman - Bark Gargoyle My favorite this week. This is something I would have photographed. It might as well be in black and white, and perhaps should be, except... for the green sprout growing out of his head. I like that, and would hate to see it go. But perhaps in black and white, increasing the green in the conversion process would turn the sprout white, making it more obvious. Also, the circle of light at the top right is distracting and makes my eye jump back and forth from the great face and the blurry light. You could easily crop it off with no loss to the photograph. But these are nits; I could be convinced that the light is the moon, and this fellow is a wood gnome that only comes out in the moonlight. Andrew -- http://andrewsharpe.com
