Hi everybody,
My assignment this month concerns the shots taken by Arnold Stark, Alexey
Tikhonov and Ollen Mullis.
"Droplets 2" by Arnold Stark
At first glance I found the huge drop on the right to be a bit disturbing to
the general balance of the image. After few minutes I got used to it and I
thought it gives to the shot the right sense of deep, it contributes to a
tridimensional vision of the pattern of drops.
I would have tried to focus on a drop closer to the observer: there are two
drops in focus (or almost in focus) that hang cut in half at the extreme right
and left, which bring the observer to follow a wrong visual path (they bring
out of the frame).
"Plastilin Courtyard" by Alexey Tikhonov
Very nice shot. I'm very fond of city scenes and this reminds me of some movie
of the fifties or the early sixties ("West Side Story" comes to mind).
It also makes me think of an oil painting: the texture of the plaster so
nicely modeled by the lights is so real that becomes unreal... (I hope to be
forgiven for a statement like this :)
Well done!
"Ice Planet Spalding" by Ollen Mullis
>From Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs" I suppose... :)
Sorry, couldn't resist! Let's go to the comments...
Well, it does fit well the theme, and it's a nice way to look at a ball (a
darker background would have been perfect, but it would have meant to touch
the ball, damaging the frost). It could become a nice advertising message.
I'd have done a closer shot of the frozen surface, too (not easy indeed with
the 20mm).
Just my opinion, though.
Other comments soon...
Gianfranco
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