Hi, These are the pictures that were assigned to me this month.
(Mentally I am at least a week behind calendar time, so I am not really that late this month... :) ) "Home of the Ancient Gods" by Paul Stenquist Fascinating colors and scenery, indeed. The framing is well done, the shooting too. Once you notice the island of Maui in the background, it rather becomes part of the focus of the picture). Not having anything to do with the quality of the shot, I must admit though, that, speaking purely of colors, these aren't really my favourite ones. So, unless I'd want to display the picture for it's accuracy, I guess I couldn't refrain from adjusting them more to my liking... (On another personal note, Maui also in a sense to me means a temporary home for another almost ancient "God", in that Maui in my mind forever is associated with a (filmed) concert by Jimi Hendrix in 1970 (partly shown in a lousy movie "Rainbow Bridge"). ) "San Francisco, 9/11/2001" by Juan Buhler Along with the title, the two bearing elements of the picture are the eyes of the girl looking into the camera and the fragment of the newspaper spelling "Centers' collaps...". Focusing is accurate and so is the use of the narrow DOF. The scene is a contrasty one though and one could of course say that the burned out highlights (like the left cheek of the girl) represents a problem from a technical point of view, but this is not of prime importance to me. However, there is a somewhat busy surrounding of (parts of) heads, faces and shoulders etc. I did a tighter cropping of the picture (like an inch down the girl's hair, up to the upper end of the black shadow of the news paper, leaving an inch of the head to the right, and roughly down the middle of the head of the girl(?) holding the paper), and I kind of liked this cropping too. Anyway, the picture is a well captured glimpse of how many people (all over the world I guess) received the news of Sept. 11, like in not even knowing what to make of it all. Thanks, Lasse - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
