Re: PF members exhibit on Sept 27, 2014

[Michael Hughes <michaelhughes7a@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you Andrew for your thoughtful and constructive comments. The kind of thing that I joined PF to see, either about my contributions or other people's work. Michael in Norwich.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sharpe <asharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 1:42
Subject: Re: PF members exhibit on Sept 27, 2014

On 9/27/14, 5:25 AM, Andrew Davidhazy wrote:
> The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated Sept. 27, 2014. 
Authors with work now on display at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html 
include:

> 			Lea Murphy - Aixois Bistro, Kansas City 	

The face is a surprise, I like it! Some distractions: the light right
over the newspaper (but probably couldn't be avoided and still get the
reflection), and the fact that the table is slanted, but the wall is
not. You might try to crop it on the left nearly to the left corner of
the table; it moves the subject from the middle of the photo, and
removes some empty space.


> 			Emily Ferguson - lanterns at day's endh 	

A good idea, but the image seems too static to me. Maybe the centered
composition. But what to do about it? I'm not sure; I couldn't find a
crop I liked better. Maybe making the lights brighter and adding more
contrast in the sky behind them.


> 			Dan Mitchell - Norwich Cathedral 	

A well-worn idea, but done nicely. Certainly a good job for a phone
camera. The speakers (?) on the far left on the wall are a little
distracting; you could crop them off, but you'd lose the symmetrical
dark border in front. So, perhaps crop off both sides. It lightens the
picture up a bit.

> 			Klaus Knuth - TYSONS CORNER

Nicely exposed. Humorous. Cropping off the right side bright area (but
leaving a sliver of the blue and some room for the hand) improves the
photograph. The fact that the cloud is growing smoke out of the
captain's hat may or may not have been intentional.

> 			Christopher Strevens - The park 	

Certainly a park, and a chap in yellow who takes the stage as the
subject, because there isn't another (and he's standing on a wall).


> 			Jan Faul - Steps in Snow, Ledreborg, Sjælland, Feb, 1981 

A quiet photograph. I like the color, and the shovel. I don't like the
car front, and the top window being cut off. Cropping off the car (and
the windows on the right, but leaving the ledge) improves the
photograph. On a tripod, you had time to look at the full frame; watch
the edges of the photograph.

	
> 			Jim Snarski - Thief 	

A good catch for use in a court of law (or deer), but not a lot
photographically speaking. The background is a little busy.
Unfortunately, a super zoom is going to be too slow to really separate
the subject from the background.


> 			John Retallack - Myrtle Beach SC

My eye started at the massive cloud, then saw the lone plant stalk, then
the people. The image is pretty, but doesn't really have a subject. The
couple are right in the middle (and sheltered in the photo by the lone
plant stalk) but still don't feel like the subject. Landscapes cut in
half, or nearly in half, like this one, tend to feel a bit static; try
to put the horizon a little higher or lower. Closer to the fence might
have worked better, too, the foreground doesn't have too much interest,
either.


Andrew