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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 5 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
OMG, you are friends with Mark Jaster. We have seen him perform so many times over the years at the Revels, and enjoyed his performances so much. |
Aug 14th |
| 5 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Great shot, and good comments from your group.
I will just add a line I am reminded of from TS Eliot and "Cats": Skimble, where is Skimble? Has he gone to hunt the thimble? |
Aug 14th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 5
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| 7 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
I know Tom; he is also in my Group 32. He gives very good advice.
But I would differ from him about the young woman. I admit to having a minority view of architecture--I prefer it without people, and therefore without any human center of interest. On the other hand, I would like to see your young woman in her own setting, perhaps a wedding or dance performance. |
Aug 15th |
| 7 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
I am excited to see this place. I visited with my family in 1989, and it is great to see it again.
I used PS Transform, then Skew a little on the left and some more on the right.
I think if you had moved a bit to the left, the top of the large monument would not be blocked by the tree branches.
The rest is more complicated to answer, and there will be many personal preferences about including the branches, and whether or not to include the woman at all, or how much, or if her garments are right for the image. |
Aug 14th |
 |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 7
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| 8 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
How wonderful of you to link this to another artistic form. Are any of those poems in English, or translated? Can you quote one or two here for us? Please. |
Aug 14th |
| 8 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
This is so very personal, with your story, and so perfectly captured. I like that the visible vegetation is only a small area of the frame. |
Aug 14th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 8
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| 13 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
This is a nice portrait. But let's unpack your title: "Complicated." Are these cross-dressers? |
Aug 14th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 13
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| 14 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
You did well with this, and were lucky the model has such skill and strength, and was willing to pose like this for you.
Critically, I would suggest some variations next time, if there is next time. The pose is reminiscent of a classic posture (as your title shows) and I think it would be better without those platform shoes. Also better if the model's hair were out of the way in a neat balletic bun because the subject is her body, not her tresses. Finally, I think this pose would work in the nude. |
Aug 14th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 14
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| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
For us, MOMA is equivalent to the Tate Modern. MOMA is where the great Family of Man photo exhibit took place in 1955. |
Aug 28th |
| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Such interesting information about your orchids! We have always admired them from plant shots and often give them instead of cut flowers for various special occasions.
I find the bright highlights on the petals just a bit too bright, maybe. |
Aug 7th |
| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Tom, I love your subject matters, as you take us on your historical visits. I would love to see more CCC shots, because I worked for a while in GSA headquarters in DC, and there were huge paintings in the lobby of CCC work projects. Across the street was the Interior Department HQ, and they had even more paintings and photographs of CCC projects. |
Aug 7th |
| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
This is a fun image. I am quite familiar with steampunk, but can't say I understand its excitement.
I like their "six eyes": two natural, two spectacles, and two on the hats.
Compositionally, I think it would be nice to lose the bag between the left man's legs. |
Aug 7th |
| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
In monochrome, the bubble looses the tell-tale rainbow colors that make it clear this is a bubble, although there is still a bit of surface texture variation to hint at the bubble surface.
This is a tremendously original and creative shot. To me, it looks a bit like the shape of a human brain, and therefore is somewhat metaphorical. |
Aug 7th |
| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
I have the same observation about the darkling ear. I love dogs like this that have a variety of ear positions. |
Aug 7th |
| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
Thank you Lance, looks great. Please come back later to see what my group colleagues have to say :) |
Aug 2nd |
| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Now I had that bright area in the upper right, so I darkened it a bit. What to do? |
Aug 2nd |
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| 32 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for coming by, Lance. Here is the fuller view of the scene. |
Aug 2nd |
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6 comments - 3 replies for Group 32
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| 42 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
Ah! The SR-1 was also my first SLR. Speeds to 1/500 and no built-in meter. I used a Gossen hand held and learned about incident light. I did my own b/w development and printing a time long ago. |
Aug 31st |
| 42 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
I applaud your project, to document historic buildings. There are photo groups everywhere performing this important public service. I enjoyed reading your historical notes. |
Aug 24th |
| 42 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Your image is very interesting. I noticed, more than YES! that the word above was police, so I wondered if there is a subtle story here of class and inequity. There may not be, but your image alone admits the possibility.
This reminds me of the work of the late South African photographer David Goldblatt, whose work focused on the subtle differences between races in South Africa--not riots and struggles, but documenting daily differences. Here is the image of his that yours reminded me of, showing the exhaustion of workers travelling long commuting distances to their menial jobs because of restrictions on where they could live. |
Aug 12th |
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2 comments - 1 reply for Group 42
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| 45 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
I went to college at Binghamton, and then settled in Bethesda, MD. I have not been back to Albany for at least 15 years. My dad might have known Jack Smith if they overlapped a bit, but I don't remember his name. |
Aug 31st |
| 45 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Hi Ray, this is a nice shot, and it holds my interest. I particularly like the flowers on the wall, and the sign in one of the windows. Can you map this location and tell me where it is?
I was raised in Albany. My dad was on the Physics faculty at the State University, in the days of the old downtown campus, and the new campus later. I attended secondary school at the on-campus practice teaching school (The Milne School) of the old campus, when the university was first a teachers' college. |
Aug 24th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 45
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| 58 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Alley shots are great subjects. Always interesting. Good job on this one. Dan asks about standing off-center--I think off-center is so much more interesting that straightaway. |
Aug 10th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 58
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| 63 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Looks great, but I long for more explanation, since much of what you did is new to me.
1. What are focus slice images, what are slides--is that something else? How many were there?
2. What is the effective magnification of this image?
3. Are those aphids, or what?
4. What plant is shown here?
Thank you, thank you, for the explanations. |
Aug 23rd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 63
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| 64 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Thanks for telling the full story of this image. I love to travel around the country and world with the DD groups.
Note: there are no women represented in this art work. How things have at last changed somewhat! |
Aug 10th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 64
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| 71 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
This is a great shot, as already mentioned, of composition, shadows, and texture. How about showing it to us in b/w also? |
Aug 23rd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 71
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| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Very creative. This makes me think that the genie of time has been let out of the bottle and can never be put back--that is, our ageing and limited life-span is inevitable. |
Aug 9th |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
This is an exciting idea, quite beyond anything I have done, let me first say.
For future efforts in this area, may I suggest using fruits or vegetables that have classical symbolic meanings. Lots of traditions have symbolic meanings for apples, strawberries, pomegranates, etc. Also, there is a tradition in both art and photography to show fruits or flowers that are starting to wilt or rot, to remind the viewer that all life has an end. |
Aug 9th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 79
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| 82 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
And you caught some light trails of moving boats on the water under the bridge, but your exposure was short enough not to introduce any star blur. Well done. |
Aug 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 82
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| 92 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
So much to discuss here!
Evidently we are at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. We see the electro-sensitive guard rail behind that will sound an alarm if the wall space is entered by anyone. We see an all too infrequent and insufficient bench (with no back support for seniors like my wife and me). The principal supporting actor is posed as The Thinker, and I wonder if one of the many castings of the Rodin original is in this room.
Our Thinker's head is cut off, the very instrument that he thinks with, so he can't think--perhaps he is too tired of trudging around the museum to think anymore.
Perhaps our Thinker is contemplating the empty space in front of him, which echoes the fact that his head is empty (as in missing from the image). Or is the Rodin statue to the right of the photographer, so that both our Thinker and the original Thinker are both somewhat missing.
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Aug 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 92
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| 96 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
I find your study of space and architecture fascinating, and I want to keep looking at it again and again. I see that you have balanced space and the building exactly 50/50. To me, this respects the Asian art tradition of placing the works of humans in a natural setting, without the human works dominating. |
Aug 8th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 96
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| 99 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
You have a well-conceived shot, you had a good model, and the effect is great.
One comment. The shadow across the middle of the model's face crosses the opening of her nostrils. I think it would look better if it crossed in the open between her nostrils and her upper lip. Or across her nose, but under her eyes. |
Aug 7th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 99
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