Re: PAW: Toes!

[Eactivist]

In a message dated 3/26/2004 7:50:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>From: Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: PAW: Toes!
>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:18:40 +
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>http://www.elvum.net/gallery/paw/toes_rc
>
>I don't think this one needs much explanation. :-)  Taken with an M50/1.7 
>on negative film and selectively desaturated in PSP.  All comments and 
>criticisms welcome, but I already know that I misjudged the focus 
>slightly...
>
>S

Hehehe. That's funny. Too bad the focus is off. BTW, that is a common 
criticism of my work. I am always doing that too. Or my autofocus is. One has to be 
really careful with autofocus that it's sharpening the focus on the right 
thing. I've had such hit and miss success, that more and more I am convinced that 
when doing close-up shots (or when anything in the frame is close-up) that I 
will have to switch to manual focus.

Cute, and a very unusual subject.

Marnie aka Doe 

RE: PAW: Toes!

[frank theriault]

Well, Steve,

You misjudged the focus.

But only slightly.  

Seriously, it's a cool shot.  I don't know why, it just is.  There's a 
certain, I don't know, voyeuristic feel to it.  No, that's not it, rather 
it's an informality, sort of being where one usually isn't, if you know what 
I mean.

Well, of course you know what I mean, you were down there with the camera 
shooting, weren't you?  

There's a certain nonchalance to the pose that I like.

Interesting comp - I think it works very well.

I'm not sure that I like the desaturation/colouring of the whole thing.  But 
that's a personal bias that has nothing to do with the actual quality of the 
work.  I prefer either b&w or colour.  I also don't like those ads on TV 
that are all b&w except one little colour thing.  So, don't take this 
paragraph as a criticism as much as an expression of personal bias.

Otherwise, I like it a lot!

cheers,
frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.  The pessimist 
fears it is true."  -J. Robert Oppenheimer




From: Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PAW: Toes!
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:18:40 +
http://www.elvum.net/gallery/paw/toes_rc

I don't think this one needs much explanation. :-)  Taken with an M50/1.7 
on negative film and selectively desaturated in PSP.  All comments and 
criticisms welcome, but I already know that I misjudged the focus 
slightly...

S

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PAW: Toes!

[Steve Jolly]

http://www.elvum.net/gallery/paw/toes_rc

I don't think this one needs much explanation. :-)  Taken with an 
M50/1.7 on negative film and selectively desaturated in PSP.  All 
comments and criticisms welcome, but I already know that I misjudged the 
focus slightly...

S