PF members exhibit o April 07, 2012

[Andrew Davidhazy-2]

The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated April 7, 2012. Authors with work now on display at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html include:


               Rene M Hales - SHE ~ Father's Shoes
               Bob Sull - Feeding Frenzy
               Don Roberts - Street Musician
               Christopher Strevens - 99
               Dan Mitchell - Easter
               Trevor Cunningham - stranded
               Sherie Taylor - Sunset at Santa Monica Pier
               Emily Ferguson - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Harpers Ferry


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[Andrew Davidhazy-2]

Currently on view on PhotoForum exhibit wall at: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html

              Rene M Hales - SHE ~ Father's Shoes

Hmmm ... makes one think of possibilities but as a "single" I find it hard to relate to.

              Bob Sull - Feeding Frenzy

Eye catching for sure ... scary in a way. Imagine a whole room wallpapered with these ... a zillion starving mouths gaping at you ... scary!

              Don Roberts - Street Musician

Fails to convey some "character" in my opinion. The raised drumstick does not look like it will hit the drum and help the harmonica. Somewhat static image IMO. lLeaning person/foot at left is quite distracting.

              Christopher Strevens - 99

It is hard for me to connect with this image. I find it hard to look at. Looks like she has been through a lot.

              Dan Mitchell - Easter

I agree that the dark attire of the priests is interesting but as a whole I am not sure it works to tell a story or an event. The backs of people's heads are not easy to deal with effectively. IMO.

              Trevor Cunningham - stranded

Interesting situation I guess. From the back is hard to see who that individual is.  Looks like a child to me but obviously that must be wrong. Hmmmm ...

              Sherie Taylor - Sunset at Santa Monica Pier

Nice evocative record photograph that still manages to convey something of the atmosphere of the location. I think you must be working on a book about the pier.

              Emily Ferguson - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Harpers Ferry

A curve into the rock face? Tunnel of course Maybe better if tunnel entrance were more visible? I like the clor of the rusted cars and weathered wood. I'd like to know what the sign says that starts out with Do Not ... somehow this seems like a set where something is about to happen. What?

take it or leave it
believe it or not

my $.01 worth

Andy

[Trevor Cunningham-2]

Nope, that's my 2.5 year-old chasing after the camel herd (the one in
the image was the last to cross through the frame).

On 4/14/12 5:39 AM, Andrew Davidhazy wrote:
> Looks like a child to me but obviously that must be wrong.

[Emily L. Ferguson-2]

At 10:13 PM -0400 4/7/12, Andrew Davidhazy wrote:
>The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated April 7,
>2012. Authors with work now on display at:
>http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html include:
>
>
>                Rene M Hales - SHE ~ Father's Shoes

Interesting, sort of static.  i think the distance between the feet
and the shoes is too great.  The DOF is fine, the shoes are nice and
sharp, but there's no urgency between the feet and shoes.  I suspect
as the project accumulates, this will be a good introductory sort of
image.

>                Bob Sull - Feeding Frenzy

I do love doing jigsaw puzzles of images like this one.  A couple
thousand pieces could keep a family of 4 busy for a good part of
Christmas vacation!  Colorful, repetitive, a bit on the fearsome
side.  Fun.

>                Don Roberts - Street Musician

That back lighting isn't doing you any favor, and I feel for the
musician not having one of those wire holders that goes around the
neck for the harmonica.  Some motion blur in the drumstick probably
would have helped a lot.

>                Christopher Strevens - 99

Chris' ongoing, if a bit raw, recording of his mother's aging has a
commonness about it that simultaneously fails to tug at our
heartstrings and yet has a certain value.  It provides a window into
a world that all of us may visit and the very ordinaryness of that
place.

>                Dan Mitchell - Easter

Not particularly springy or Easter-y.  The image seems too crowded,
not in the oppressive way of religion but more in the way of modern
urban life.  Still the image does not resonate in any particular way
for me.

>                Trevor Cunningham - stranded

Trevor, you live in such a different world.  Is that a camel by the
beach?  How close does a small boy dare get to a camel?  And what
here is stranded?

>                Sherie Taylor - Sunset at Santa Monica Pier

Sherie, it's time for you to wait for good sunsets.  This is a most
ordinary one and not worth shooting, to me.  You don't get many
possible evenings - the fog and weather gets in your way, but I think
you need to practice being a lot more selective at this point.

There are other photographs in there - but it's time for you to get
in close, add some technical skills with slow shutter speeds, try out
some angles other than the one where your eyes are when you stand up,
and dig deeper.  This is just another shot with too much
undifferentiated data - big empty sky, empty water, and a tantalizing
ferris wheel practically over where it's almost irrelevant.

>                Emily Ferguson - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Harpers Ferry

I have been scanning very old film, from way before I thought I might
be any sort of photographer, and this is one of those pieces.  It has
some nice lines, and a sense of vista, but I was not yet mature
enough in seeing to quite figure that I'd better get that huge tunnel
hole there too!  Still, to me it has some assets and I thought I'd
share them with you this week.

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[Trevor Cunningham-2]

No beach here, just rocks and sand. As for being stranded, several of
these pictures have a desolate feel to them. See more of them here:
www.chalkfoto.com/graffiti

On 4/14/12 5:52 PM, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
> Is that a camel by the beach?  How close does a small boy dare get to
> a camel?  And what here is stranded?