Thanks for all the comments and compliments! No problem 'dissecting' photos like this, Igor. As long as you're talking to the photo, your impressions, etc: that's what I'm looking to hear.
The works you pointed to are a bit more impressionistic-romantic, pictorialist for lack of a better term—they remind me of the softness of Monet's paintings of water scenes. I was more interested in the sharp way that details stood out in the soft light and tully fog, and thrilled to see how this old Leitz lens rendered them as my imagination saw them. :-) thanks again! Godfrey On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > As I opened the link, my first few-second impression was: "great!" > That was because of the combination (juxtaposition) of the crisp > Foreground and foggy background. > At the same time, my thought was: this photo is so not-Godfrey. > Analyzing what made me thinking this way, I think it is the saturated > colors and high contrast of the foreground (leaves, grass at the > bottom left, the trees themselves). > Most of your photos tend to be "softer" in tonal appearance. > > > But after I've been looking at this photo for a minute or two, I started > thinking that the front tree is a bit too intrusive (to my taste). > Almost to the extent that I would have preferred only the fogged trees > from the background... At least that's what I would have wanted if > I were to hang it on the wall. > > I was thinking about the painting by Ivan Shishkin "Fog in the forest": > http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/ivan-shishkin/fog-in-the-forest > > The second association is with the painting by I. Aivazovsky > Foggy morning in Neapol: > http://www.bibliotekar.ru/rusAyvaz/11.htm > > My apology for "dissecting" your photo this way (or, rather, my > impression from it). > Thanks for showing it. > > Igor > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/8469273097/lightbox -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
