waynechunlee

This is truly an awesome photo.

Just looking for opinions...

I came across this image and looked in your folder --I really like your images and vision. Thank you for posting them.

I like this shot and disagree with Steve's comment suggesting more space to the right. To me, the lack of space serves the image well. Thanks for sharing...

I like the space that you've given the subject in this shot, it's really elegant. Thanks for sharing...

I think this is absolutely wonderful, everything works together so well: Timing, composition, exposure; and I wouldn't worry about the background, it's not distracting to me. Thanks for sharing...

I disagree with Raymond, I think all of the elements in the frame work well. The stud, stain, and shadows provide an interesting contrast. Javier, thanks for sharing this one with us --which focal length do you typically use?

Hi, I like this one a lot, but I've shown it to a few people who do

not think it is very convincing (they typically think my "Never

forget" image in the same folder is better) while others like it.

What do you think? Is it "easy" to understand?

Hi, I appreciate the comments here and on my other images. Some additional information about the original exposure: "Wayne's SLR" in this case was a Nikon FM2n; a 28/2.8 was used at f/16 or f/22 at either 1/250 or 1/500 sec with a yellow filter and hood; exposure was made at about 11:00AM. I did end up printing this image. It was actually my first print I've ever made! I took a 4 hour workshop at www.cascadesphotography.com last week and made a few prints there. I used Ilford's multigrade papers exposing first the entire image, then burning everything except the lower left corner, then again burning except for the lower left and right corners (all of this with a #3 filter). I then switched to a #4 filter and burned Mt Rainier and the sky. And finally, burned the top left corner because the sun made that corner very "hot" (I was facing South). I'll have to scan the print sometime as it's much different than the posted image and I don't know enough about Photoshop to replicate the effect of the contrast filters. Thanks again!

What do you think? I'm particularly interested in your opinions on

whether the background conflicts with the primary subject in this

image. While I hope I avoided a true merger between the three people

and the stroller in the background with the three subjects and the

balloon, are those background elements distracting? What about the

composition overall? Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Please don't just rate the image, ratings don't tell me what you

liked/ didn't like about an image, or how to improve. Check out some

of my other shots if you have the time; I have 60 or so posted!

I'd first like to thank you both for your comments.[Kristupa:] The scan itself is full frame, but I composed the image this way because I wanted to draw the audience's eyes to something. When I had the whole basin in the frame, it seemed like there was no true subject, except for the basin itself, which had too many elements. My other shots of this basin demonstrate that. I shot with shallow DOF to draw the eyes to something and blur the extraneous background. I also couldn't help but think of that one artist that painted a circle in the corner of a canvas for more effective composition; this is described in Campbell's (sp?) Composing Pictures book. [Ken:] Thank you for commenting on so many of my images; I find that comments are most helpful, perhaps the only helpful, element in posting these images as it provides something for me to consider when shooting again. Thanks again!

I too like the tilt; I do that in a few of my images, but it doesn't always work. Here, it's just great.

Just wanted to know how people react to this image. Comments would

be greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking (and poke around in my

folders if you have the time)!

Hi, this will probably get lost with all the other comments here, but I just wanted to add my 2 cents. First, I like this image, but like a few have said, there's a lot going on. I would have preferred a more focused (simpler) composition (e.g., focusing on two center panels). Second, there's a very good video documentary about this memorial and Maya Lin, the designer, "Maya Lin: Strong clear vision" or something like that. It includes a portion on the rather nasty debates about the construction and design of the memorial that occured in the early 1980's when the design was awarded to Lin (then in college). Lin's life was even threatened. Many did not like the fact that it was "black", that it was in the ground, or that it didn't "glorify" the American involvment (another post mentioned "black gash", I don't think those are Lin's own words, rather a term that came up during the debates, but in effect, she wanted to "open the ground up" and make an interface between the living and the dead). Also, the design was purposely non-political and "quiet", although as many have said, it is one of the most powerful of the memorials in the US. I encourage those who have the motivation to check out this documentary, or perhaps read the (long) NGS multi-article feature that ran in the early 1980's (that covers the process, design, construction, debates, and, of course, the people of the memorial; NGS even wanted to print all the names in the issue!). Better yet, visit the memorial if you have the chance.

I saw this one yesterday on the top rated list, but has no one really commented on this image (I don't see any comments)?! Anyway, I really like the color and texture in the photograph; I think it's hard to get color to work really well in a composition. I also like how it's somewhat difficult to determine the relationships between the gray portion and the other colors (foreground/ background). I am curious though if you tried other angles of the same subject...

Hi... Exposure is nice, so is the color, but I'd prefer seeing the building from a different angle. Maybe like looking at a corner or window instead of head-on and dead-center. Maybe think about what feature of the architecture you would like the viewer to focus on and then "arrange" foreground and background accordingly (trees, wall, grass, etc). Just my two cents and a few things that I'm working on after looking at my own shots.

I'd like to get some opinions on this shot that I took at a show here

at the U of I. What do you think? Feel free to comment on the other

images in my folder as well. Thanks in advance.

I would appreciate any comments on the image above.

Hi, this is my first time posting with the new critique system so I

hope I get everything right. I would appreciate any comments on the

image. Thanks in advance.

Just wanted to say that I really like this one; excellent exposure with TCN. Just curious, but did you happen to use a filter?

I'm surprised that the scanner could do that to. Especially with capturing information in the top left and bottom right corners. There's what seems to be a slight "hot spot" in the lower center; maybe you can use a flash-diffuser of some sort to fix that --just kidding.