----- Original Message ----- From: "ann sanfedele" Subject: Re: GESO: photos from my little exhibit this past weekend and adisplay idea
>>the black and white shots here : > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=449168 > The colour shots don't do anything for me. I recall the guy on the screen is a big fish in the pond, but only because you said so when saw this picture before. Now, on to the black and white...... I'm going to call them 1 through 6 for convenience. 1) A most excellent photograph. You have combined a look of a speakeasy in the back of a pool hall with the most unlikely of activities. These guys should be playing stud poker. The light is perfect, the exposure looks a little hot, but not bad. I'm not sure what I think about the guy exhaling smoke, but if you want smoke, you have to wait for it and pray. I'd have done the same thing. This is high art, Ann. 2) I like this photo, though not as well as #1. The light is at a good angle, fill is a bit flat on his face, but for available, it is amazing. His intensity takes the picture up a notch by adding some tension to the feel of it. For some reason, it reminds me of a Yousuf Karsh portrait in style. 3) Three guys and a Scrabble game. Sorry. 4) Another picture with lots of intensity. You weren't close enough though. Again, great light, you really have had that in all the pictures so far. Were it my picture, I'd make it 4x5 aspect the other way. Like this: http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/scrabble.html Yeah, that's better. Stronger, more intensity. I want to have her baby. 5) Again, gorgeous light. This one doesn't have the intensity of the last picture, and he does have a steel pipe growing out of his head, but it still works on several levels. 6) This one is almost there, but there is no good reason to have not included more of the guy on the left I wish you had shot it horizontally, the action is on the table, not under it.. It's a good gallery, thanks for showing it. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
