I found the recent comments on the the three PESO's I posted quite interesting. I appreciate the feedback and naturally don't expect everyone's taste to be the same. I'm happy that they were generally well received.
I did find it, looking for the right word - puzzling - that the three photos were often judged in comparison to one another. Because, aside from being landscapes that contained trees and an element of fog, they were quite different from one another in composition, lighting and especially feeling. Neccessarily so because I had what nature presented me, and deliberately so because I think/hope I saw the potential in each of the circumstances and decided to work on making the image, hopefully conveying the feeling that I had, to the viewer. To me, judging one against the other is like comparing a Caribbean beach scene, to a northen California Big Sur coastal shot, to an Alaskan glacial fjord. It's difficult to compare three such photos, because aside from being water-related, they will have a totally different feeling to them. Here's my unsolicited, humble, hopefully not subjectively blind, thoughts on my own photographs: Inversion - Strong dramatic lighting, monotone, high contrast. Fog, tree silohouettes and tree shadows provide the interest in the shot. Based on responses I would describe it as 'Exciting'. Common Ground - Low light levels, low contrast, gray scale. Trees of differing shapes almost lost in the fog, create a soft two dimensional, somewhat old feeling. 'Moody'. Hillcrest - Medium lighting, soft/cool pastel-like colors and tones. Foreground rolling grassy mounds, trees up close and more receding in to the distance and fog, providing some perspective. It feels a little ethereal to me and reminds me a bit of the grounds around Camelot as depicted in motion pictures. I find it to be 'Soothing'. ------------- So what am I blathering on and on about? Hmmm... :-) I guess what I'm saying is that, personal taste aside, each photo is very different from the other, and was designed as such to present a different feeling to the viewer. Side-by-side: http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=341034 Again thanks for commenting. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
