New photographs in PF gallery on 10-31-09

[ADavidhazy-2]

The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated OCT 31 , 2009.
Authors
with work now on display at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html 
include:

         Michael Hughes - It hasn't killed me yet
         Dan Mitchell - Tate Modern
         Don Roberts - Autumn
         Jim Snarski - Evolution
         Jim Davis - Trees
         D.L. Shipman - Solomon's castle, Arcadia
         Christopher Strevens - Alien Visitation?
         John Palcewski - Dancer

There are 2 photographs awaiting installation. (Cunningham, Ferguson)
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[John Palcewski]

Herewith my review of this week's gallery, worth no more and no less than one plugged nickel:

Michael Hughes - It hasn't killed me yet.  This bloke with the nicotine stained fingers is pleasing in that he's like King Nestor, who refuses to yield to the sorrows of old age.  In fact, his overall demeanor is that he doesn't feel old at all.   As for the esthetics of the portrait, well, I think the lighting is too flat and uniform.  I think it would have been improved by more contrast, more shadows.
       
Dan Mitchell - Tate Modern.   The girl has a face that reminds me of my favorite ex-wife.   Sort of Georgia O'Keefe-like.  But she's not sharply focused, and I'm distracted by the wash-out of the book or catalog in her lap.  The railing and the walls do little to convey the idea of an art museum, other than the red, blue and yellow thing on the far right.

Don Roberts - Autumn.  The reds and yellows might benefit from turning the background to a richer black.

Jim Snarski - Evolution.  When I was studying photography at New York University we displayed our images and got critiques.  I showed one, and remarked that it was mostly an accident.  The professor shook his head.  "Never, EVER, devalue your work as an accident.  Instead you should insist everything was by calculation and design.  Why give your critics ammunition?"

Jim Davis - Trees.  The image would be improbed by a sharper focus, because I assume the great sweep of detail is what caught your attention in the first place.  

D.L. Shipman - Solomon's castle, Arcadia.  Very odd architecture.  Looks like the house was covered in huge sheets of Aluminum foil.

Christopher Strevens - Alien Visitation?  This would benefit by a tweak in contrast.   

[MichaelHughes7A]

In a message dated 31/10/2009 14:16:35 GMT Standard Time, palcewski@... writes:

I showed one, and remarked that it was mostly an accident.  The professor shook his head.  "Never, EVER, devalue your work as an accident.  Instead you should insist everything was by calculation and design.  Why give your critics ammunition?"

This strikes a chord with me. As a 13 year old I presented my halving joint to the woodwork master with a self-deprecating comment. His response 'Never criticise your own work lad, there are plenty of others who will be pleased to do it for you'

 

Michael

[Cap'n Jimmy]

At 10:13 AM -0400 10/31/09, John Palcewski wrote:
>Jim Snarski - Evolution.  When I was studying photography at New
>York University we displayed our images and got critiques.  I showed
>one, and remarked that it was mostly an accident.  The professor
>shook his head.  "Never, EVER, devalue your work as an accident.
>Instead you should insist everything was by calculation and design.
>Why give your critics ammunition?"

       The Princes of Serendip and I respectfully disagree with your
professor...anyone who regularly shoots action or nature pays
appropriate homage to the happy accidents that occur...no part of
which *devalues* the work...this particular shot would be virtually
impossible to obtain by *calculation and design*...rather, it's being
in the right place with the right intent and coming up with an image
which, to me at least, is interesting and perhaps even evokes a
feeling ...furthermore, I have no fear of critics...I respect those
with constuctive comments and dismiss the put-down artists...I also
hold in high esteem photographers and other artists who embrace the
truth...

     thanks for your thoughts...

Cap'n Jimmy
Baja Oregon

[MichaelHughes7A]

I did not get to see the current gallery, just an incomplete gallery of wrongly named images.

 

I've had the problem before and someone kindly told me how to fix it.

 

Sadly I neither remember who nor how.

 

Michael

[PhotoRoy6]

In a message dated 10/31/2009 6:21:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, MichaelHughes7A@... writes:

I did not get to see the current gallery, just an incomplete gallery of wrongly named images.

 

I've had the problem before and someone kindly told me how to fix it.

 

Sadly I neither remember who nor how.

 

Michael

Pick Setting icon on horizontal menu at top of AOL page

Pick Internet (Web) Options

Pick Clear my foot print tab

Pick clear my footprint button

 

This clears out your Internet cache and AOL cache.

Roy

[Steve Harris-14]

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[ADavidhazy-2]

Michael, Empty your computer's "cache".

Otherwise try reloading the page ... maybe more than once.

andy

PhotoRoy6@... wrote:
>
> I did not get to see the current gallery, just an incomplete gallery of  
> wrongly named images.
>  
> I've had the problem before and someone kindly told me how to fix  it.
>  
> Sadly I neither remember who nor how.
>  
> Michael

[MichaelHughes7A]

Thanks Roy for the info on clearing caches.  Did it but it made no difference.  Michael

[Chris-723]

The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated OCT 31 , 2009.
Authors
with work now on display at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html 
include:

         Michael Hughes - It hasn't killed me yet
[Chris] The deadly weed has not yet reaped its harvest but it will in time.
I like the "Genre" of the picture. It has a nice atmosphere. Do they REALLY
dress like that?
         Dan Mitchell - Tate Modern
[Chris] The Tate Modern is a good place for photography and it is allowed.
It was a power station once and many of them of that age have gone. I think
it would be nice if one such station was preserved intact as a folk museum
but I don't think there are any left.
         Don Roberts - Autumn
[Chris] These leaves are the attractive side of autumn. It is interesting
that while most of the animal kingdom is stuffing itself for hibernation or
otherwise preparing for the winter shortages, mankind is so well prepared we
can use our amazing technology to record just the light trace of the scene
and appreciate the beauty having no fear of starving over winter.
         Jim Snarski - Evolution
[Chris] We merely copied them!
         Jim Davis - Trees
[Chris] I'm not impressed by this image. It sort of looks untidy. It is the
sort of reconnaissance image that a visiting flying saucer might catch.
         D.L. Shipman - Solomon's castle, Arcadia
[Chris] I interpret "Arcadia" to mean "fairy land" so this is a theme park I
suppose - but are we getting mixed up as Solomon was not a fairy but a King
who is mentioned in the Bible. I think he was a Jewish King. So what is his
castle doing in fairy land?
    Christopher Strevens - Alien Visitation?
[Chris] These "corn circles" are interesting. I always thought that they
were of human origin made by local members of the "Corn Circle Society" but
then I saw one form when I was out walking in that part of Western Britain.
It just took about two minutes as an invisible finger traced out the outline
taking away the wheat in what turned out to be a complex pattern.
         John Palcewski - Dancer
[Chris] Well all I can say is YAPG (Yet Another Pretty Girl).

[Chris] Chris.

[PhotoRoy6]

 

Go to the Windows control panel and pick Internet option and delete it that way.

Roy

 

 

 

In a message dated 11/1/2009 2:46:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, MichaelHughes7A@... writes:

Thanks Roy for the info on clearing caches.  Did it but it made no difference.  Michael

 

[James B. Davis]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:33:54 -0500 (EST), PhotoRoy6@... wrote/replied to:

>Go to the Windows control panel and pick Internet option and delete it that
> way.
>Roy

Or download Firefox.

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[MichaelHughes7A]

Thanks for the help.

 

 

 I can now see a full gallery and now know, for instance that Vonnegut has neither taken up dancing nor had a photoshop gender transformation.

 

Michael

[dave6134]

Chris wrote:

 D.L. Shipman - Solomon's castle, Arcadia
>  I interpret "Arcadia" to mean "fairy land" so this is a theme park I
> suppose - but are we getting mixed up as Solomon was not a fairy but a King
> who is mentioned in the Bible. I think he was a Jewish King. So what is his
> castle doing in fairy land?
>
>
>  
Actually Solomon's castle is the home and workshop of sculptor Howard
Solomon, located near Arcadia Florida.

Dave
East Englewood
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[Emily L. Ferguson-2]

At 9:52 AM -0400 10/31/09, ADavidhazy wrote:
>The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated OCT 31 ,
>2009. Authors
>with work now on display at:
>http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html include:
>
>         Michael Hughes - It hasn't killed me yet

The guy must have a sense of humor to be wearing a pink shirt.  How
did you arrive at the title?

>         Dan Mitchell - Tate Modern

Except for her face not being particularly sharp, it's a nice
industrial architecture shot. Maybe modern needs to be more
iconoclastic now-a-days to actually speak "modern" to us.

>         Don Roberts - Autumn

Quite a few pleasing things here - the nice variety of colors in the
leaves, the shiny surfaces and edges, the tidy framing in the upper
right corner.  If you set this up, placing the leaves where you did,
you might have arranged them so that the vague whiteness in the upper
left wasn't there.

>         Jim Snarski - Evolution

Really makes you wonder whether it would be better if the gull were
the sharp object.

>         Jim Davis - Trees

Leafless/lifeless.  Well, not really leafless, but the initial
impression is that the leaves have already fallen and we're looking
at late fall.  It seems to me that one should seek out only those
places where some real organization is evident in this kind of shot.

>         D.L. Shipman - Solomon's castle, Arcadia

A building covered in quilt batting!  Are they planning on shingling that?

>         Christopher Strevens - Alien Visitation?

Just a snap.  Needs a lot of reconsideration before you're finished
with that location, Chris.

>         John Palcewski - Dancer

Wow.  Right out of the '30s.  But no sense of dance here.  Harsh dyed
hair color, sharp edges all around, and no support garment for the
breasts.  Makes one wonder what sort of dance she might be thinking
of doing.

Friday, folks.  Time to send in your submissions for next week.

Thanks to all for sending in stuff for this week!

>The time to send yours is NOW! If you wait you'll probably forget! ;)
>Instructions at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery-sub.html


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[Don Roberts-2]

Thanks, Emily.  Yes, I did some rearranging.  Nature is just so random,
you know.  But my thought was that the vague whiteness, which was
another leaf under the table, added a sort of ghostly quality.  Maybe it
didn't need a ghostly quality?  This is one of the great things about
the PF gallery;  you can throw things out and get people's reactions
without really nailing your ego to the wall for folks to shoot at.
Don

Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
> At 9:52 AM -0400 10/31/09, ADavidhazy wrote:
>
>>         Don Roberts - Autumn

>> Quite a few pleasing things here - the nice variety of colors in the
>> leaves, the shiny surfaces and edges, the tidy framing in the upper
>> right corner.  If you set this up, placing the leaves where you did,
>> you might have arranged them so that the vague whiteness in the upper
>> left wasn't there.