rich_evans

June 17, 2003

Paterson NJ, 6/14/03, bright sun through high thin clouds, 12 noon,

DCS720x, 28-70 AFS f/2.8 @ 28mm, ISO 800, 1/2000 @ f/8, tripod, no

correction. Just another scenic?

June 16, 2003

Nice shot - somehow, I just can't seem to get the hang of this, guess I need to play more in PS, or maybe my cameras just won't do this. At any rate, the composition is first class, as is almost all of your other work. I think there are few things to critique about this image. 6/6 --Rich

June 16, 2003

Tom - I think this is a great idea - really gives some drama to the otherwise stock scene. In order to pump up the drama a bit more, I would have used a wider lens to get closer to the bouquet and still keep all of the principles in the photo. It would have also had the effect of enlarging the flowerpiece. I like this alot. --Rich

June 15, 2003

I like this image alot - is is a striking example of how complex a simple image can really be. Note that the perspective of the lines which cross the street do not match with the perspective one would expect to see on the lamp as it protrudes from the wall. The angle of the line formed by the shadow on the wall adds yet another level of complexity. However the simple and minimal colors work to contrast nicely with the confounding lines. Great shot, 6/6 --Rich

June 15, 2003

Headlight from a 1934 (?) Auburn at an antique auto show - dusk, no

alteration, hand-held.

June 13, 2003

love it! great catch. --Rich

June 13, 2003

Peter - I just love the 'fade-away' type of shots. This is nicely done, leads the eye into a great unknown region - I want to know what's out there. ;-) --Rich

June 13, 2003

David - this is an awesome photo - the feather detail, the perfect DOF to accent the subjects, perfect focus on the eye - these all work together to make excellent publishable wildlife images. Your info says your long end of the lens was a 135 - how were you able to get so close to these birds? --Rich 6/5

June 12, 2003

nice composition - eerie perspective. Too bad the men are in the photo - I would rather have seen this without them. --Rich

June 12, 2003

The is difficult to shoot - I know because I've been shooting highly reflective subjects for years. Nicely done, the soft light works very well on this, I would like to see a bit more DOF, but its good none-the-less. --Rich

June 12, 2003

Oh yeah...

June 12, 2003

Love it - don't care about the 'lack of greys' - you're right about 'bladk and white' - high contrast stuff is just so much more dramatic and if the subject's right, it usually works better than muddy greys. I like this series best of all your stuff I've seen so far - from both an artistic/presentation standpoint and from a subject matter point of view, but that's just how my tastes run ;-) --Rich

June 11, 2003

David - Putting this photo in context with the rest of your folders, I think I would have focused more on the monk and had the point of focus been a bit further down the prayer wheels - the entire image just seems out of focus. --Rich

June 11, 2003

Peter - very nice effect, this type of shot is not always easy to pull off, as you have seen. I agree that there is probably something that could have been done differently, but its not always easy. IMHO, if you had stood perhaps 4-5 meters to your right, you may have been able to get more of a fully radiating set of rays coming through the trees - that would of course depend upon how heavy the mist layer was. In either case, this is a nicely done stitching job and I like the long format. Good job. --Rich

June 11, 2003

Nice composition, is a tad under exposed. On the other hand, I don't know that more exposure might blow out the whites and lose the subtle pink lines. Maybe some green in the background, I don't know. I like the flower, but somehow the background needs more. Very good. --Rich

June 5, 2003

Kristy - very nice job. Anticipating and eliminiating reflections from glass is a science ;-) Not really, but it helps to always be aware of reflective surfaces in the vicinity, since flash is so intense, secondary reflections will often give rise to 'ghosting' on your images. For aquarium shots, simplest is to be sure to be at an angle to the glass - you can angle yourself, or hand-hold the off-camera flash at an appropriate distance and angle to prevent flashback. Another solution which I've used when photographing glass and other reflective objects in the studio - but which is tricky and robs alot of light - is to use a polarizer on your lens and another on your light source. This will eliminate probably 75% of all reflections. I like your submission here - keep up the good work. --Rich

June 5, 2003

I hope that it is only the scan which has resulted in really no color here. I would hae expected much more color from a 'fall' image, and this is not very well composed. I think that the haziness in the distance is good, and maybe that is what you should have concentrated on - as is, there is no central point of focus here. --Rich

June 5, 2003

This is one of the few instances where I think that the frame really adds to the picture. The color/contrast is what makes this a successful image. The only thing that jars me just a bit is the arch of the doorframe and the arch between the two pillars don't coincide - a minor nit, but I like symetry ;-) --Rich

June 4, 2003

sorry, but I don't see anything special or overly challenging about this shot. --Rich

June 1, 2003

very kool - and I looked at the rest of the images in your folder; very impressive, Elizabeth. You've got some truly stunning images of flowers. Keep up the great work. --Rich

June 1, 2003

really nice, this would make a great holiday greeting card from some outdoorsman or a good stock image for a magazine. --Rich

May 31, 2003

nice - very 'o'keefe-like' - I like this. 6/6

May 31, 2003

Not bad, Edgerton was there first though. Good color, nice focus. --Rich

May 31, 2003

I can't put my finger on it, but I find something about this image to be disconcerting - I think its the horizon line, and that could be due to the lens you used (wide angle?) or it could be the actual horizon. Anyway, nice image, well exposed, but I'd like to see a straight horizon line in this type of image. --Rich