helge_jensen1 0 Posted November 3, 2001 Beautiful pictures I like No 1 and No 2 for their originality, and there is something in the motive and composition of No 3 & 4 that reminds you of old master paintings. Link to comment
dave_bazzel1 0 Posted November 5, 2001 Bill, This is an excellent photo!! Very Rockwell like. The color and deep tones are beautiful and I think it is even framed well. I don't think I've given out more than a few 10s but here ya go. Best to you, --Dave Link to comment
Stock-Photos 1 Posted November 6, 2001 Amazing lighting and perfect exposure. Looks like a painting by a master! Link to comment
j.o.kim 0 Posted November 6, 2001 that any better photograph would be possible at this place ... ? As I see it, I realize how foolish it is to describe a photo with words. Congratulations on your masterpiece ! Link to comment
tony_dummett 0 Posted November 6, 2001 Onthe "painterly" theme, I think it's your exposures which are so spot on. They make the scenes you have captured so convincing. Link to comment
patrick_michel_dagenais 0 Posted November 6, 2001 This picture is spot on. It captures the moment in a way that is so special it's beyond words. What makes it so special, to me, is that you really used the background to enhance the subjects. Composition is perfect. Link to comment
tony_dummett 0 Posted November 6, 2001 I upped my rating on this picture after revisiting it. It's gratifying to come across a photograph that doesn't require (or supply) instant gratification. It grows on me. Link to comment
Jim_Tardio 0 Posted November 7, 2001 I love the look of Kodachrome and you use it perfectly. What it has over the current E6 films is that beautiful vivid color palette, but tempered with a good rendering of pastels. What a shame Kodak let this film...and particularly it's processing...fall by the wayside.Please post more. Link to comment
jennifer_kwasniewski 0 Posted November 7, 2001 WoW!! It does grow on you. The more I look, the more I see....and feel. There's depth, texture, richness, emotion. Perfect. Link to comment
markcarp 0 Posted November 19, 2001 My first thought when I saw this also was "This looks like a painting!" Well, half the frame IS a painting! That being said, once I covered up the top half of the frame on my monitor, the lighting and poses still looked like a painting to me. Beautifully done! Great eye! Link to comment
mottershead 0 Posted November 20, 2001 Bill, I think this is a wonderful and unusual photograph. Superb light, and a quietly interesting setting and people, as if from another time. The quality of the light and the warm tones remind me of some of the Dutch masters! As Tony said, this is a picture that draws one back, and I too have come back many times to it. But there is one thing that always bothers me and prevents it from being a masterpiece in my mind. And that is the man whose back we see in the foreground with the bright beige sweater. At the level of composition, because of its size, brightness and position on the intersection of thirds lines, this sweater becomes the primary focal point of the picture, instead of the standing, mustachioed man to whom all the sight lines lead. Worse, the man's sweater, which looks much more modern and casual than most of the other clothes, breaks the mood of the picture. Please pardon me for messing with such a wonderful picture, but I have attached the result of some burning in and desaturation of this sweater. The sweater remains a focal point, but I think now it is secondary and complimentary. To my eye, this improves the photograph. I won't say significantly, since it is already great, but enough to be worth doing. (By the way, does anyone know how you just make a link to an attachment rather than embedding it? I see this on other comments, and would prefer to do this, but I can't figure out how.) Link to comment
bill_hocker1 0 Posted November 20, 2001 My thanks for all of the comments thus far, especially all the gushing. Brian: shocked as I am that you would mess with a masterpiece, you are quite right - the guy is more dominant than he should be (and his feet have always seemed out of place in a couple of ways). You have induced me to provide a revised version of this image, darkening the sweater following your suggestion and that of Morwen below as well as lightening the upper wall area at the suggestion of Tony Dummett. (This is also an opportunity to try out an embedded hyperlink). Link to comment
ken_imduaikiat2 0 Posted December 25, 2001 Painting-like quality... very beautiful color... lighting is just perfect... Link to comment
rdwhiteman 0 Posted January 18, 2002 As if another comment was needed, what seems to "make" this photograph is the architecture and the seemingly high, single-source lighting which is soft. Put this same group in a more modern office or meeting room and it's a different mood completely. It looks like a old painting for sure since that building was probably around back then. As for "Mr. Sweater"...tell him there's a call for him in the lobby next time. Very nice! Link to comment
mstrada 0 Posted January 28, 2002 The only surprise about this picture being chosen POW is that is wasn't chosen sooner ... The benefit of the delay is that it arrives with a well-developed discussion in place. I second, or third, or fourth, the accolades for the painterly quality of the shot. I think you've grabbed a great moment too -- everyone's attention is focused in one place -- one man is gesturing emphatically. The stage is nicely set for the viewer's importation of a story. Link to comment
jasonschock 0 Posted January 28, 2002 I agree that the light and color are great. But without the caption I wouldn't have much of an idea what was going on. To me, the vantage point of the photograper seems too removed and the heads are too small to infer what kind of exchange is taking place. I can't really get into the scene. I think some cropping off the bottom would help a lot, and perhaps a touch off the top. Link to comment
nomade 1 Posted January 28, 2002 Good choice for POW. Congrats to Bill! This must have not been an easy shot, considering the low lights condition and the sensivity of the film. His portfolios are a collection of lessons in photography: in color and composition, his a Master... Link to comment
binky_savage 0 Posted January 28, 2002 The fellow in the yellow sweater in his foregrounded position and resulting large scale is evocative of myself as the viewer, and thus draws me into the image. His bared heels remind me of the origins of opera in Italy as a shared class pursuit, and draw me even further into the moment. Then I begin to wonder if what I am looking at is a group of workers, having nothing to do with the contemporay (North American) use of the word opera. At that point, he becomes one of the unemployed and an outsider, clearly understood by his separateness from the darker figures in the background and a juxtaposition to the red sweater. If this image is strictly a compositional and technical exercise it can be critiqued at those levels, but it expresses so much more. To second guess the viewer is perhaps to diminish its strength. Link to comment
michael_collins__brisbane_ 0 Posted January 28, 2002 Nothing more to say but, "thanks". Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted January 28, 2002 Beautiful Renaissance appearance. I took a look at your portfolio - it's amazing! As Néstor Botta mentioned it here above, you are a Master. Thank you for sharing your work with us (you're right Michael Collins). For this one, a double 10. Link to comment
hanna_cowpe 0 Posted January 28, 2002 Your photo of the week has prompted me to take a journey through your entire collection and I can say without reservation that it's the best I've seen on this site. Many thanks for sharing with us. Link to comment
michael_celec 0 Posted January 28, 2002 A very painterly and artfully done photograph.The color is beautiful and exposure perfect.I really like the areas in deep shadow and the quality of the light in the room.There is also a feeling of drama of sorts being played out by the gestures and posture of some of the men.Exellent! Link to comment
marco mugnatto 0 Posted January 28, 2002 Yes. I agree that this photo says a lot. I only think that the guy on the foreground is distracting. I would prefer if he wasn't there. Link to comment
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