Ditto! To some extent it's like receiving the comment, "not up to your usual standard". How high is my usual standard and compared to what? How high is up? IOW, you've shown me some that I liked better.(?) My feeling is that putting up images for review is done for that individual image and what it does for each individual viewer, not how it compares to one I may have offered previously. Maybe we should set up a 0 - 10 rating system. ;-/
Jack --- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
