Dan Mitchell, To the Lighthouse. This is gripping, dramatic. Talk about being pulled into a scene! There's a certain shock element to it, a sort of surprise at the competition for attention between the phallic red and white column and the blue shirted guy. You go back and forth between them. Then the tree on the right make you look immediately to the left, and you're relieved that there's NOT a matching tree on the other side, because that would somehow be a violation of good composition. Overall a great success. Trevor Cunningham, banzai plant. This is a splendid example of what Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach had in mind when he conceived of his ink blot test. The whole idea is to trick reluctant psychiatraic patients into revealing themselves as the sordid, depraved wretches they really are. Now, while some Forum members may see in this image blatant pornographic sex, I see instead the beauty and wonder of nature. The metaphor of food as spiritual sustenance. Of the scents of earth, and sunlit leaves. Jim Snarski, Weaver. Seems to me this would be vastly improved if the web were more clearly defined. Or maybe not. Jan Faul, Lloyds of London, 2008. This, I assume, was used to illustrate a newspaper or magazine article about that big British insurance company, and it would make sense in that context. On its own, though, it seems an odd and awkward composition. The guys in the lift are cut off, and theres a bit of dull, uninteresting space on both sides that well could be cropped off. Seems this would work better as a vertical. Now, the image might serve as an example of the benefits of using a solidly fixed tripod. You can capture a sense of movement with the blur of the lift, and at the same time keep everything else tack sharp. Another thing is that overall this looks like a sepia-toned b&w, but then there's the blue of the two guys. Puzzling! Elson T. Elizaga, Leaves on a Wall. I like the texure and the detail, but for my taste it's too narrow, too wide. But then I have to admit it grows on me. Nice shot. Bob McCulloch, Abandoned. Is this perchance a shot taken with a cell phone camera? If so be prepared for a barrage of complaints! Now I think some of the shots I can get with my Blackberry have a most interesting quality that suggests Polaroids or pin-hole camera images, which is a sort of combination of the old and the new. But it works only for some subjects. Pini Vollach, A dessert's pool. An interesting abstract, although were it mine I'd punch up the saturation a bit and burn in the top somewhat. I don't like seeing copyright notices or the photographer's name stuck on an image. It's kind of like, "Don't you DARE try to steal this because it's MINE!" Which these days is a futile gesture because image thieves do what they please with little negative consequences. Howard Leigh, Armed Police snapped! Ah, the Fascists with Automatic Weapons are warm, tolerant, and kind human beings after all. Good to see. On 8/18/12, Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated August 18, 2012. > Authors with work now on display at: > http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html include: > > > Dan Mitchell - To the Lighthouse > Trevor Cunningham - banzai plant > Jim Snarski - Weaver > Jan Faul - Lloyds of London, 2008 > Elson T. Elizaga - Leaves on a Wall > Bob McCulloch - Abandoned > Pini Vollach - A dessert's pool > Howard Leigh - Armed Police snapped! > > > Allan Rosen-Ducat has a series exhibition of his Ridge Line Project > photographs installed in Gallery-10. > This is the link to the collection: > http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery-10/ > > Enqueued for next week: Palcewski > > To participate in this activity find instructions at: > http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery-sub.html > > Send your contributions early and anything you can do to prepare the > photographs so they do not require additional adjustment would be much > appreciated. Especially keeping them near 100Kb in maximum size. Please take > an extra minute to abide by this request but if you have doubts about how to > prepare images just send them anyway and the capable gallery staff will > adjust them for exhibition. > > From: Yolanda > > PS: do you know of other persons who might be interested in subscribing to > PhotoForum? See below: > > FYI - for subscription instructions and other informational files visit the > PhotoForum's website at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/photoforum.html > > FYI- to unsubscribe from PhotoForum send email to: > listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with text "signoff PhotoForum" on first line of > message body. > > PF on Facebook at: > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=234442540144&ref=mf > >
