William Robb wrote: >----- 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. > I actually meant for those to be ignored :)
>Now, on to the black and white...... >I'm going to call them 1 through 6 for convenience. > As would I - but I think I'll put a link in to each as we chat. One thing I probably should have said - except for the one shot Dave b likes a lot and you don't, all of these shots were portrait crops of landscape negs or prints. I had to put the important players and moments in Scrabble tourney history into vertical format because that was the way the light boxes were hung in the main room.... http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5600569 >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. > On another day they certainly both did. Especially Bernie - pretty much a pro gambler back when he was still among us. >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. > This is 50% of the original full frame photo which was in "Word Wars" and which is better... I had to crop , as I said, to mount the light boxes. I actually didn't even think about the smoke Arnie was blowing out --- more the postures of the players - here is the full frame shot http://home.nyc.rr.com/annsansdirectory/1978nyctxa4415bernieetc.jpg -------------------- >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5600500 > >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. > Josh is another one you would find in a gaming parlor - his father is Irwin Silber, noted lefty and writer on folk music. Although Josh has a cig in mouth here, note it is unlit -- unlike the NYC tourneys, there was no smoking at the first North American Championship. >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5600473 >3) Three guys and a Scrabble game. >Sorry. > No prob - this had to be in the show - by request - the guy in the middle is famous for his lengthy post mortems - however, I like it because of the lighting. my crop of number 4: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5600461 >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 > I thought at first I liked your crop better, but I think I like mine - which itself is a crop of the way it was printed in the Daily News back then I like the shapes of the table and chair and the back of Louis's chair balances the light behind Chris. >Yeah, that's better. Stronger, more intensity. >I want to have her baby. > I don't think so - she is about my age now :) She was a great player and disappeared from the whole scene when she finally got through a divorce and found a new fella... never returned to the Scrabble scene. >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5600458 >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. > Nothing I could do about the railing - less noticible in the original - not centered... but I get your point He is a famous backgammon master and great Scrabble player but he stopped playing competitively years ago. He hung out at the old "flea House" on 42nd st in NY. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5600437 >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.. > did shoot it horizontally - really wanted this particular shot of Ron on the wall of that tourney for a number of reasons. But I had to turn it into a portrait format for the frame it was in. almost No one recognized him, and that was a part of the fun... I think I will take it down and put up the other one but I wanted to show the Scrabble list what was on the wall for all those who were not at the tourney. >It's a good gallery, thanks for showing it. > >William Robb > > > thanks, Bill I liked doing it but was tormented, too, because most of these are not my best shots of the era - (by my feeling anyway) lots of film effect though and Theraultian blur :) ann > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
