A few comments -- and comments on Trevor's comments -- on this week's gallery. Actually, I don't understand many of the images.
Stempel -- Street Lamps. Contradiction?? I see only emptiness.
McCulloch - Boats I don't even see the ripple.
Manley - Children with Pig, 2002 As I've said, this is a great shot. And oh, the tones. . . What I don't understand, though, is that the same image on her web site does not show up nearly as well.
My own shot - Veranda in Decay Mostly still experimenting with the tones. I should have also mentioned that I shot a series of images of this decaying old house, and the other images show much more decay. Next week I'll show more.
Palcewski - Hand I was totally confused by this at first. Only after looking at it in passing several times did I see that the hand was probably part of a statue. So I can see that if there were more of the woman's face showing -- at least the other eye -- and more detail in the hand then I would have stayed with the image right from the start. I'm guessing this shot was posed; maybe wrong, but it would strike me more if it were a street shot. Somehow it would be different -- and really good.
Art Faul - and Randy Little - see above.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Trevor Cunningham <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gregory david Stempel - Street Lamps
I love it. It's a perfect blend of contradiction. My pic of the gallery.
Bob McCulloch - Boats
Well seen, well arranged, well exposed. I like the errant ripple effect in the water.
Dan Mitchell - Android
Not enough people in the shot to make it the horror it is.
Tina Manley - Children with Pig, 2002
Reminds me of a trip to the island of Sumba. Too bad the pig is cut off...or, that just might mean dinner :)
John Palcewski - Hand
I love it. But I've been so infected by these diatribes of digital capture ruining photography that I might not be allowed to respect it.
Yoram Gelman - Veranda in Decay
Nice range of tones, but I end at that. The trees are all the decay I can see...maybe that's the point?
Christopher Strevens - The way.
Flip the title with the details and you have a haunting photo essay.
Art Faul -
Perfect capture, and I would expect nothing less. But, I do beg the question, what's the context? Again, spectacular control of light, sensational color balance...there's even lines to show how close to perfect the capture is...but it's completely empty unless I frequent that station. Your film effort is commendable in this age, but lost with a bargain-basement gradient background that fails to follow the light angle of a wastefully careful drop shadow. And why not just use Comic Sans?
Randy Little -
Very cool! This could even pass as modern. But, I'm confused...did your uncle produce this, or was he the daredevil? What happened to Mervin?
