The first and last shots are fantastic IMO. It's all a touch pretentious though... The whole drama of "This'll be my last 'presentation'", etc. I'd prefer an interpretive title as well, rather than the pretentious title it has, the title doesn't really identify me with him. Why five minutes?? Why not four and a third minutes?? Six past two minutes plus a quarter of half an hour??? I honestly do not like your image titles, going over them all. And maybe that sounds strange, but, I think you could do a lot more for your images if you dropped some of pretensions you have hanging all over your work. To be honest, I think the first shot is great, and the last shot is uniquely great. But, on the whole, I am disinterested by it. The middle shots bore me, the child seems aware of the camera and lost in front of it. I would rather see the first and last shots side by side, and to have never seen the middle shots, which are just filler IMHO. They aren't bad, but they really only serve to harp on the same idea. Again that last shot is special, the first is very nice, the others could be forgotten. I think my major reason for not loving this sequence is that the kid seems too aware that hes being photographed. Thats why I like that last shot, his hand is on the window and he appears to be looking out in the distance by the turn of his head. The thumb across the eyes is a neat touch that adds some sense of underlying meaning to the shot. Hope that helps.
-el gringo -----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW - Five Minutes With Jesse This'll be my last presentation, at least for quite some time. For those who have cared to look, you may have seen one or another of these photos before, but not in this presentation. I'm trying a somewhat new approach to making a portrait, using more than one image to convey an overall feeling and sense of the subject. Your comments would be appreciated. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/jesse/jesse.html Shel
