Hello Tom, In my perspective, it was not so much comparing your photos against each other, but rather, comparing my reaction and interest in each photos. So it can be said that I prefer one more than another. I saw them each as very different just as you did.
-- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 15, 2007, 10:10:05 AM, you wrote: TC> I found the recent comments on the the three PESO's I posted quite TC> interesting. I appreciate the feedback and naturally don't expect TC> everyone's taste to be the same. I'm happy that they were generally well TC> received. TC> I did find it, looking for the right word - puzzling - that the three TC> photos were often judged in comparison to one another. Because, aside from TC> being landscapes that contained trees and an element of fog, they were quite TC> different from one another in composition, lighting and especially feeling. TC> Neccessarily so because I had what nature presented me, and deliberately so TC> because I think/hope I saw the potential in each of the circumstances and TC> decided to work on making the image, hopefully conveying the feeling that I TC> had, to the viewer. TC> To me, judging one against the other is like comparing a Caribbean beach TC> scene, to a northen California Big Sur coastal shot, to an Alaskan glacial TC> fjord. It's difficult to compare three such photos, because aside from TC> being water-related, they will have a totally different feeling to them. TC> Here's my unsolicited, humble, hopefully not subjectively blind, thoughts on TC> my own photographs: TC> Inversion - Strong dramatic lighting, monotone, high contrast. Fog, tree TC> silohouettes and tree shadows provide the interest in the shot. Based on TC> responses I would describe it as 'Exciting'. TC> Common Ground - Low light levels, low contrast, gray scale. Trees of TC> differing shapes almost lost in the fog, create a soft two dimensional, TC> somewhat old feeling. 'Moody'. TC> Hillcrest - Medium lighting, soft/cool pastel-like colors and tones. TC> Foreground rolling grassy mounds, trees up close and more receding in to the TC> distance and fog, providing some perspective. It feels a little ethereal to TC> me and reminds me a bit of the grounds around Camelot as depicted in motion TC> pictures. I find it to be 'Soothing'. TC> ------------- TC> So what am I blathering on and on about? Hmmm... :-) I guess what I'm TC> saying is that, personal taste aside, each photo is very different from the TC> other, and was designed as such to present a different feeling to the TC> viewer. TC> Side-by-side: TC> http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=341034 TC> Again thanks for commenting. TC> Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
