Re: [Leica] photos for your critique

["Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>]

Thanks for your photos, I really enjoyed looking at them.  They seem to me
to fall into three general groups: general workshop views, individual scenes
from the workshop focusing on one element (a crank, a wheel, an anvil etc;
and a view of someone performing an action. IMO You have some good images in
each class and some excellent ones in the final, and most difficult group.
Again for what it's worth, here are my caveat's:

1. In the general workshop views, you don't seem to have enough depth of
field for the whole image to be in focus. I don't know what your shutter
speed was, but it would probably have been better on a tripod.

2. Same for the individual element pictures like 6 and 5. But 8, 11 and 12
are fantastic images.

3. Some of the images of workers are just stunning: visually strong,
dramatic, and immediately clear what is being done. 15, 17, 19a (not as
dramatic but still a "story") 22, beautiful, 27 an excellent and weren't we
talking about hands a while ago? But a few of them are obscure even with a
title, 25 and 26.

Best
stuart phillips
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Mason" <dcm@pobox.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: [Leica] photos for your critique


>
> Following the Alfie crap...
>
> I have some photos I would like critiqued as well. My major areas of
> weakness are scanning, enhancing, oh... and perhaps shooting :) But I
> am an admitted amateur and student so I want to hear what you guys
> think.
>
> These are a few photos I took for a small documentary project for a
> class. The subjects are a father/son metal arts team who were working
> on a piece for North Carolina State University's Student Union. These
> are just a sampling, I think I might have posted them before, but they
> were lost in the shuffle.
>
> At any rate, criticism wholeheartedly accepted. For what it's worth, I
> think the prints look *much* better than the scans, but then I always
> think that. At some point I plan on making a small 'site' for the
> project which will include text and some more of the photos, but I
> have been lazy.
>
>
> http://www.dmason.net/photos/Vega/
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
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