On 5/2/05, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a couple of days later than I'd hoped, but here it is. I > still think the scan could use a little improvement but I haven't had > much of a chance to really come to grips with my scanner yet. > > It may look a little dark but I liked the way the light zig-zags down > the hill. I took a few variations as the light changed. This was my > second favourite - the best on-film was identical in composition but > had a slightly lower exposure and wouldn't have scanned quite as well. > > Oh and for once this is actually a new photo, not one from my archive :) > > http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?print_id=92&t=PAW > > Cheers, > > - Dave > > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Well, I gotta be honest here, Dave (doesn't ~that~ portend something less-than-pleasant <g>), but this one just doesn't speak to me. The clouds aren't spectacular, the sky's not an amazing colour, the composition doesn't make me jump up and yell, little detail in the foreground, and that tower on the hill is an eyesore. I keep wondering if I'm missing something; maybe there's a subtlety that's going over my head, or a mood that I'm missing, but I seem to want more than this photo is giving me right now. Maybe you're a victim of your own success, and I expect each new photo to out-do the last (as they all seem to have, up to this one <g>). But this one just isn't for me. Sorry. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
