tj01
Well-known
Gallery picks for the week ending Mon December 13th 2010
Gallery Picks is an opportunity for you to post a heads up to what you have seen during the past seven days at RFF that you like.
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Gallery Picks is an opportunity for you to post a heads up to what you have seen during the past seven days at RFF that you like.
There's no membership requirement, no criteria (except past seven days), no voting, no limit to the number of photos mentioned, and everybody mentioned is a winner.
Anybody can start the thread on a Monday.
Anybody can join in, it's a community event!
tj01
Well-known
This shot really appeals to me, and the first thing that came to my mind was 'How to print this ?'. It reminded me of a chapter in Ansel Adams The Print, on how to read highlights and blocked textures. In the same paragraph, on how to discard these technicalities and go with the visual impression when the photo was taken.
Beach
-Tuna
With the weather going upside down in some parts of the world, this was a pleasure to view.
Warm Shawl
-Alex Krasotkin
Masterful shot, enough said.
Rollei_35_116_09
-Petronius
The blocked shadows and the high sky really brings the mood in this scene. The solitary bird placed in between the middle of the frame is really masterful.
Last bird
-Filmfan
I'm not a fan of grain. But this shot works in its favour. There's a feverish urgency in his mood, more pronounced by the grain.
Face
-OurManInTangier
What was he trying to do, race the tram ? Why ? A very fulfilling shot.
A Race Versus The Tram
-gekopaca
robklurfield
eclipse
Frank Petronio... That tripod looks decidedly unstable to me. Shaky legs and an unreliable head. The camera and photographer look fine, however.
Sereghasu ... I love the disembodied legs sticking up.
slantface ... an exceptionally powerful portrait. the eye highlighted by the sliver of light really hits hard
Petronius... continuing his year-long Rollei 35 project. this image calls to mind the carapace of some sort of wintery insect.
f16sunshine... very well-realized image with great tone, texture and detail. Paulfish rightly noted the 3-D effect of the front plane versus the only slightly oof background
OurManInTangier... this image was so well-done that it left me at loss for words...
Sereghasu ... I love the disembodied legs sticking up.
slantface ... an exceptionally powerful portrait. the eye highlighted by the sliver of light really hits hard
Petronius... continuing his year-long Rollei 35 project. this image calls to mind the carapace of some sort of wintery insect.
f16sunshine... very well-realized image with great tone, texture and detail. Paulfish rightly noted the 3-D effect of the front plane versus the only slightly oof background
OurManInTangier... this image was so well-done that it left me at loss for words...
robklurfield
eclipse
OlegTretiak ... documenting alienation visually
some great tone and contrast in a nice composition from George Baldin...
Tuna recording a tense standoff...
Martini proving he can create as much drama in a monochrome image as we are accustomed to seeing in his very fine color work...
Paulfish exploiting some nice grain and geometry
I like the light in LKeithR's image...
Frank Petronio with a wonderful shot of Martha and Olivia in the forest... gotta love Olivia's animation here...
Harry Teasley sparked some serious nostalgia in me with his shot of these chairs. Brought me back 47 years to summers visiting my great grandparents in Michigan. A real Proustian reverie for me.
a rather perfect composition with the aging gentlemen bending in the wind and light (phototrophism I guess) as if they were trees, too.
a wonderful parking lot abstraction of lines and shadow from Paulfish...
some great tone and contrast in a nice composition from George Baldin...
Tuna recording a tense standoff...
Martini proving he can create as much drama in a monochrome image as we are accustomed to seeing in his very fine color work...
Paulfish exploiting some nice grain and geometry
I like the light in LKeithR's image...
Frank Petronio with a wonderful shot of Martha and Olivia in the forest... gotta love Olivia's animation here...
Harry Teasley sparked some serious nostalgia in me with his shot of these chairs. Brought me back 47 years to summers visiting my great grandparents in Michigan. A real Proustian reverie for me.
a rather perfect composition with the aging gentlemen bending in the wind and light (phototrophism I guess) as if they were trees, too.
a wonderful parking lot abstraction of lines and shadow from Paulfish...
robklurfield
eclipse
mto'brien...
robklurfield
eclipse
aldenfender showing us that the lower ninth in NOLA still has a long way to go if it's going to recover...
robklurfield
eclipse
yukio... powerful street portrait in SF...
ThomasM
Well-known
tigerphil
obwong
af
LKeithR
OurManInTangier
obwong
af
LKeithR
OurManInTangier
isorgb
Well-known
OurManInTangier
luiman
shadowgrapher
Great week, hard choice:
Arjay
George Baldin
richreidjr
slantface
OurManInTangier
paulfish4570
Keith
Carlos M
petronius
robklurfield
Arjay
George Baldin
richreidjr
slantface
OurManInTangier
paulfish4570
Keith
Carlos M
petronius
robklurfield
Arjay
Time Traveller
Thank you Luiman for mentioning my picture!
This was an interesting week indeed, and I had great difficulty narrowing down my choices to just eight picks. So here goes:
Paulfish4570 - Wired. Paul is really picturing light more than anything else. Here's the proof.
Alex Krasotkin - Sideway. Very interesting composition and precise post-procesing. This is how this image manages to convey "Lokk at those on the dark side of the street too".
Snausages - ****. A deceptively simple picture of the joy of life. It takes some imagination to drive simplification this far without producing an 'abstract' picture.
Martini - Untitled. Wonderful post-processing and phantastic light come together to produce a picture that could be a future classic.
OurManInTangier - _____. Wonderfully captured moment - the right expression, and wonderful use of negative space. This one is my favorite of the week.
Petronius - 35-116-09. What a great composition. This one works as a picture even before you've found out what it depicts.
Pixckett Wilson - Bounce. Great capture - I love the contrast between the boy's absent-minded play and the slightly menacing car in the background. Great choice of tonalities, too: The car is harsh & contrasty, while the boy is soft and smooth.
Alex Krasotkin - Warm Shawl. An interesting composition, in which the viewer's gaze is guided from the back to the shawl, then to the hands only to arrive at the face that is rendered with great tenderness. Very moving.
This was an interesting week indeed, and I had great difficulty narrowing down my choices to just eight picks. So here goes:
Paulfish4570 - Wired. Paul is really picturing light more than anything else. Here's the proof.
Alex Krasotkin - Sideway. Very interesting composition and precise post-procesing. This is how this image manages to convey "Lokk at those on the dark side of the street too".
Snausages - ****. A deceptively simple picture of the joy of life. It takes some imagination to drive simplification this far without producing an 'abstract' picture.
Martini - Untitled. Wonderful post-processing and phantastic light come together to produce a picture that could be a future classic.
OurManInTangier - _____. Wonderfully captured moment - the right expression, and wonderful use of negative space. This one is my favorite of the week.
Petronius - 35-116-09. What a great composition. This one works as a picture even before you've found out what it depicts.
Pixckett Wilson - Bounce. Great capture - I love the contrast between the boy's absent-minded play and the slightly menacing car in the background. Great choice of tonalities, too: The car is harsh & contrasty, while the boy is soft and smooth.
Alex Krasotkin - Warm Shawl. An interesting composition, in which the viewer's gaze is guided from the back to the shawl, then to the hands only to arrive at the face that is rendered with great tenderness. Very moving.
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Greyscale
Veteran
slantface, the camera captured the photographers empathy toward his subject:
OurManinTangier
Luiman's wonderful portrait of his father
hteasley's vibrant guitars
richiedjr's modern take on "The Little Rascals"
Tuna's bird in flight
OurManinTangier
Luiman's wonderful portrait of his father
hteasley's vibrant guitars
richiedjr's modern take on "The Little Rascals"
Tuna's bird in flight
malcD
Well-known
luiman
shadowgrapher
Greyscale, thank you for the mention!
dazedgonebye
Veteran
Great stuff this week!
Martini
Well-known
hteasley
Pupil
Thanks very much, Greyscale and Rob.
I discovered that, entirely by chance, in my marked photos for the week, I have two photos from each photographer, almost without exception. So I'm posting them that way.
slantface's "the conversation" is, I predict, to be the most reposted photo this week. Here's my acknowledgment of this amazing capture.
and "the cones", also wonderful.
I discovered that, entirely by chance, in my marked photos for the week, I have two photos from each photographer, almost without exception. So I'm posting them that way.
slantface's "the conversation" is, I predict, to be the most reposted photo this week. Here's my acknowledgment of this amazing capture.
and "the cones", also wonderful.
hteasley
Pupil
Paul, with "Diptych 2"
and "front slash"
and "front slash"
