Glenn, I'm very much into the subject matter of these but it was a great strain on my old system to try to look at all the shots - do you think you might make a page with thumbnails to make it less taxing on our older systems?
(Vanishing America , though in a more scattered way, is something I've been involved in shooting for a long time - as much of the gobbling up of small towns by a a ring of "plastic" establishments ona highway bypass. sigh.) annsan glenn murphy wrote: > Thanks for the input. When I was in the darkroom doing my prints that > was about all my instructor ever had to say about my work, "Don't you > think it needs more contrast?" I got my grade report in the mail > yesterday, and based on my grade I have to conclude that I must have > gotten enough contrast for him in the end. > > I stayed away from wide-angle lenses for a couple of reasons. First, the > only lenses I have wider than 50mm are either cheap zooms or a cheap > Vivitar 24mm. You can already see some distortion in some of the > pictures using a 50mm, such as "Cell Tower" where the cell tower and the > farm buildings visibly lean towards the middle of the photograph. I also > favored telephoto for some situations where I wanted to compress things > a bit, like "Signs" where I think I would have lost too much detail of > the farm in the background for it to be very interesting. In a lot of > cases I was simply trying to keep a photo "on topic" so to speak. If I > had used a wide-angle for many of these pictures it would have looked > like I was just doing a series on cell towers, they're everywhere. > > Glenn > > Bernd Scheffler wrote: > > >On my screen the pics look quite flat, personally I like more contrast. (No > >problem, can be repaired easily.) > >And sometimes I search for the ultmative kick; probably some of the pics > >would have got it by using a wideangle lens to render the scene more > >dramatic, for ex. in Cat ready to pounce or Thanksgiving Morning. > >Over all your pics remind me of my own work in the darkroom (long long > >ago) - I often tried to do winter pics and only the sunny ones were the way > >I could accept. > >But you have the potential IMO, get it on! > > > >Best, Bernd > > > >-----original message------- > >glenn murphy > >Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:21:13 -0800 > > > >I put together a collection of 21 photos I took this fall for a photography > >class at the local community college. Unfortunately, I don't have a flatbed > >scanner set up right now to scan the prints I made in class, so scans of the > >negatives are the best I can do for now. Comments and constructive criticism > >are welcome. > > > > > >http://home.comcast.net/~gutenberg14/vanishing-gallery-1.html > ><http://home.comcast.net/%7Egutenberg14/vanishing-gallery-1.html> > >Glenn > > > > > > > > > > > >
