Some Photos to Peruse

[richardvanle]

For the past few weeks, I have been covering various

Pro-Palestine rallies and demonstrations in NYC. I have up a

rough edit of my work <a

href="http://www.vanle.com/palestine/">here</a>. <p>

 

<center><img

src="http://www.vanle.com/palestine/images/02-022-35.jpg"><p

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<i>Pro-Palestine Rally, NYC 2002</i></center>

[Allen Herbert]

Excellent,the real world.Full of impact, and colour adds.

[mark_lewis2]

I hope you find a wider audience for these meaningful images

than this board, they deserve to be seen. Well done.

[chris_c_lloyd]

Best work i have seen of this type.

[angelia]

i think the shots are ok. nothing terribly special. i definitely

would edit out some of the ones that are very underexposed. they all

seem to be underexposed except for a few of the soft-lit daylight

shots (these were the keepers in my opinion). nothing earthshaking

as a whole, but this event has great potential. keep covering it and

report back with some more tightly edited shots. like the style a

lot.

[kristian dowling]

No faults. Most shots give plenty of meeling and the messages

are obvious. Meaning that he images have IMPACT!!!!

 

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Something lacking in my own photography at the moment.

 

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Excellent work

[richardvanle]

Thanks for all the comments and critiques, so far. Pro-Palestine

rallies are still going on throughout the city, so I'm not done

shooting yet. Angelia, I agree a tighter edit is necessary. Please

consider this set of photos a work in progress.

[olivier_reichenbach]

Richard, you did a nice photojournalistic job there, but the pictures - as full of impact as they are -

are definitely underexposed. Just curious: what meter and what film did you use?

 

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Keep on doing this. It's good. Thanks,

 

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Olivier

[mike dixon]

There are several strong images, particularly among those that show

the expressions of the protesters. In general, those simply recording

the messages on the signs are much weaker. I agree that the scans are

a bit murky--many of the photos would benefit from curves adjustments

to pull more detail out of the shadows and midtones.

[iván]

Top level photography, IMHO. But at this level any weakneses are too

evident. I'd subscribe angelia's and Mike's opinions on editing

needs / conveniences.

 

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Thanks, Richard. Please let us know more of your work.

 

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-Iván

[richardvanle]

On the issue of the general murkiness of the photos, I think there

are a couple reasons for that. First, there were definitely pictures

that were simply underexposed -- due to a couple major

mistakes on my part at the time of the events (wish I could

blame AE!). At all the events, the light would change very

dramatically (suddenly dropping 3 stops, for example) and I got a

little too distracted by the event itself and could have paid closer

attention to the light changes. Second, I'm still getting the hang of

scanning and color correcting in Photoshop, so it's a matter of

improving my digital workflow. The 8x10 work prints "pop" more

than onscreen, but there's definitely a lot of room for

improvement.<p>

Technical details: M6/M4-P, with 25/35/50 lenses. I used Portra

800, rated at 800 and 3200 (big mistake pushing it 2 stops, but I

hadn't done it before, so I thought I'd experiment a bit). Negatives

then scanned at 4000 dpi.<p>

Again, I appreciate the comments from everyone. Very helpful.

[iván]

Richard:

 

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Remarcable attitude at telling to us what was wrong on your part and

easing the technical details.

 

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Thanks !

 

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-Iván

[richardvanle]

Oh, I left out one part of the technical data: I used a Sunpak 1600

flash for the night shots. It's a bit anemic, so I'm considering

getting an SF20 for more power and control (of course, I'll lose

the TTL function with my non TTL-cameras).<p>

Ivan, I try to take responsibility for my mistakes -- after all, I won't

learn a damn thing unless I learn from them.

[richardvanle]

Oops. That last sentence sounded weird. Meant to say that I

won't improve my photography unless I learn from my mistakes.

[tse_sung_wu7]

Nice shots. May I ask what software or tool, if any, you used in building your

website? It's very nicely done.

[richardvanle]

Tse-Sung, I used Photoshop for image processing and I

designed the site in Dreamweaver. The idea was to keep the

site as simple as possible, so the focus would be on the photos.