Boris, Your opinions are appreciated, well maybe. :-) Compositions are intended, and to my memory colors are fairly accurate. Many shots taken several hours before noon. I deliberately isolated the architectural elements, in most cases providing little context. because to me it often looked very classical Greco-Roman in style, and that is what I intended to show.
I was not apprehensive, why would I be? I think you reading far too much between the pixels. As far as my camera and I learning about one another, I don't understand how you arrive at that judgement. I shoot with the NEX5 just like any other camera, and if I found there was a large learning curve where I had to adjust for the performance of the camera in some way other than I already do, I'd chuck it Tom On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/6/2010 10:16 PM, Tom C wrote: >> >> I had to stay the weekend in D.C. for a work seminar several weeks ago >> and had a free day to stroll around the National Mall. >> >> Taken with the Sony NEX5. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=514298 > > Tom, I don't think I am as happy/ecstatic about these pubic (wink wink, Bob > S) places or actually the pictures thereof. The colors seem to be generally > on the cold side. Could be it is true to life representation, but I visited > DC at least twice and I don't remember it so cold in color. > > Also it feels that you're almost apprehensive about taking these pictures. > It is hard to put in words, but your previous work, Tom, seems to show much > more of your character while here it is simpler, more common, less > individualistic if you know what I mean. > > It is a solid effort nonetheless, but without disrespect it seems to me that > you and your Sony NEX5 have much to learn about each other. > > Boris > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
