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I love the fact that I can't immediately tell what this shot is. Is it some sort of industrial machinery? Is it a cheese grater? Very nice perspective. The black corner doesn't bother me too much because it's almost like a visual footnote, reminding you that your'e looking at a building. I don't notice that area until I've scanned the photo for a second, so it doesn't distract me from the pattern.

 

(you also did a nice job of not allowing any reflections of your interior hotelroom to appear. Tough shooting through glass sometimes.)

 

I guess my only comment would be that an even wider lens might make for an even more interesting photo. These are the kinds of shots where I think a bit of barrel distortion adds character.

 

Nice work.

Travis

RJ, I like the photo very much. I think that if you made it a portrait, and framed it so that one of those large columns was your main background, you'd get a more powerful effect.

 

Nice Job. Perfect exposure.

 

Travis

This was shot at mid-day into an alley in NY. I think it was from the

third floor if I remember corectly. Some people have said they feel

that the image is overexposed. My feeling is that the image captured

the strange "albino" quality of the brick. Your comments are welcome.

Thanks!

Geraldine, I like your alterations very much! I'll definitely keep your framing in mind when I re-shot on that location. Your version is much more intimate. Thanks very much for the feedback.

 

My favorite part of this photo is the color shift from top to bottom.

Sometimes I wonder if a different angle of the statue would have been

better.

 

Travis

Richard, I really enjoy this shot. The key seems to be in the slight angle to the "head". If this was a straight-on dead-level shot, it would look more inatimate. I don't know if you have the opportunity, but I'd try the same shot with some Velvia. I think you could pull even richer contrasts between the blue and the hints of red in the rust. (Not that I ever have the right film loaded when I really need it) Very fun shot.

 

There is an excellent book called "faces" which is photography of inatimate objects that look alive. Very similar to this.

Ken, rarely am I a fan of a digitally altered photo, mostly because I feel that often people don't have enough self restraint in a photo editor. This shot is marvelous. Somehow even though you (I'm guessing here) reversed the image and then added the red hue, It still has a natural quality. You enhanced what was already there without destroying the image's best qualities. How about a blue version?

I like your framing of the shot, and the subject is very nice. With some 100 speed film and a stop lower on the shutter, I think you would have been able to pull some more detail out of the building and the surrounding snow.

Be Brutal! This was shot at twilight on a Canon G1. Color was slighty

adjusted to remove a purple cast, but apart from that the image is

unedited. I'd love to shoot this scene again with the benefit of some

critique to this photo. (and a level tripod)

 

Travis

This shot is an ad for Fuji Provia. I like the gate not only because it unifies the two sides of the shot, but because it introduces the viewer into the scene. It adds to the feeling that I'm standing there on that terrace.

 

Travis

I'm a big fan of this photo. Your composition of fore and background is fantastic.

Travis

I like your shot very much,but I think it could have had more impact if you could have cranked down that aperture, opened up your depth of focus to the maximum, and gotten the front end of one of those red canoes as your main subject, starkly contrasted to the infinte blue and white background.

 

If possible, bringing all of that into focus, and losing all the other boats, would have made the pic more striking.

 

For the subject you chose, you framed the mountains very nicely. Just enough water-sky-mountain in the photo.

 

Nice work.

 

Travis

This photo relaxes me. I absolutely love your balance of color in the composition. I would do nothing to improve it, except maybe experiemnt with the same subject in different types of light.

 

Travis