Congratulations, Dan! I just took a very pleasing look at your PPG. I think I recognized all images and recall voting "yes" on what had to be the majority. I do appreciate Fuchsia Orchids, otherwise wouldn't have offered my over the top critique.
Jack --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Fuchsia Orchids > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 6:56 AM > Thanks, Jack. Your suggestions > are very helpful, and I shall play > around with it a bit. > > I tried several angles on this plant, but this was the > best. Some > showed blue int eh background, from the water features of > the > greenhouse, and that was more distracting. Some > angles showed a bit > of wilt in a flower or leaf, and some did not seem as > "balanced" to my > eye as this shot. > > Because I like the flower so much, I submitted it to the > Pentax > Gallery, even though I recognized it was not technically > all that > good. To my surprise, it was accepted into the > gallery, bringing my > little portfolio there up to 45 images. I am always > surprised at what > makes it into the gallery -- and what doesn't. Many > of my favorite > shots have been rejected. > > Dan > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Beautiful blossoms! Unfortunately, that black > background area is very distracting, the pedals peeking in > on the left edge should be cloned out and the fuchsia color > in the upper left corner eliminated. The black background > area would be a tough edit, but the image is worthy of a > significant effort. > > > > Jack > > > > --- On Thu, 12/2/10, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> From: Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > >> Subject: PESO: Fuchsia Orchids > >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >> Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 6:39 PM > >> http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=djm1963&entry=29 > >> > >> Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are > All > >> Welcome. > >> > >> Dan Matyola > >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link > >> directly above and follow the directions. > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
