I'm conflicted on your assesment of the couple in the background -- my
"photographic eye" agrees and says they need to be "brighter" and more
noticeable (maybe go ask the guy if he wouldn't mind wearing a lighter
colored shirt!), but my experience of viewing the photo was like
Hmmm, an interesting photo of an interesting sculpture... I like
it.
Nice exposure, interesting composition, --
Wait a second! There's someone back there...
Oh, it's two people! And they're embracing! And that's what
the Giant Head Thing is looking so curiously about!
What a great photo, I love it!
and thus the ambiguousness of the couple was part of the charm for me.
Of course one has to keep in mind how slim the chances are that you and
I both have our displays calibrated the same and both have the same type
of display and are both viewing from a platform with similar gamma
curves, etc... the noticeability of the couple is likely very different
for both of us.
Grady
-----Original Message-----
From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PAW - Untitled and Undescribed
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:28:27 -0700, Shel Belinkoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/heads/images/head04.html
I like it. I like it a lot, but...
I wish the couple in the background were not so dark. It's actually
hard to see them, indeed, hard to even ascertain that they're a couple.
I might also prefer that the giant head weren't quite so big in relation
to the couple - maybe a longer lens from farther away would address
that.
That being said, we have to deal with the photo as presented -
obviously, you don't have a chance to go reshoot it, Shel.
What I do like is the "knowing wink" on the face of the statue - a very
wry comment on what's going on behind it. And, I like the moment that
you caught the couple in (although as I said, I wish they were a bit
more obvious.
All in all, I think it's a keeper; I think it's very good, just not
great. <vbg>
cheers,
frank (back from a longer than expected weekend)
--
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
