Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html Lovely textural shot ... beautiful geometry and starkness. You caught it just right. Godfrey
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
Hi David ... It might have been nice if the topmost rail of the bench had more texture, but it didn't, so there y'have it. Glad you liked the pic. I have a hard time with color, so the colors generally have to stand out in some manner for me to see them. Strange isn't it - I get some compliments on my color work and it's a result of my not being able to see color very well LOL Shel From David Savage Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:06:39 -0700 Excellent use of coloUr g The contrast between the weathered painted timbers is very striking. I also like the textures. The top rail of the bench, to my eye, seem's out of place due to its lack of texture, but it make's the image interesting. Shel, when you use colour you certainly use it to good effect. On 4/19/05, Shel Belinkoff wrote: I met a friend for lunch today, and we walked around a hidden area in Larkspur, west of San Quentin prison, called Greenbrae Pier, a small, funky community of old homes built on stilts and piles. This caught my attention and I grabbed a QuikSnap with the little Sony DSC-S85. It's pretty much straight from the camera generated TIF with a very slight color adjustment to eliminate a bluish cast. Comment welcome, of course. Other pics of the community were made on, gasp! film, using an MX and a K24/2.8 lens. Those pics won't be ready for a while. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
Thanks for the kind words, Frank. Glad you liked it ... ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: frank theriault http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html I gotta hand it to ya, Shel, when you do use colour, they're shots that could ~only~ work in colour! I love this. Simple, stark, beautifully proportioned, amazing use of that bright colour to juxtapose the weathered grey wood. What a great eye to notice that composition as you walked by!
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
Thanks, Godfrey ... appreciate your looking and your comment. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html Lovely textural shot ... beautiful geometry and starkness. You caught it just right. Godfrey
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Thanks for looking and for your comments. I was wondering how the weathered paint and lower saturation might come across. Tried to keep the colors natural, as they were in the scene. Shel [Original Message] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html That's rather nice, the coloured bench really pops out from the weathered boards of the background.
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Thanks Bruce ... you see quite well. Don't underestimate your vision. Shel [Original Message] From: Bruce Dayton I echo Frank's comments - excellent eye and use of color. Wish I could see so well.
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
Frank's right. IMO your colour shots are invariably superb, and this is certainly no exception. That's not to knock your bw; but your colour shots seldom contain people, and I think that makes them more powerful. Perhaps there's just less to think about. :-) John On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:02:37 -0700, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Godfrey ... appreciate your looking and your comment. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html Lovely textural shot ... beautiful geometry and starkness. You caught it just right. Godfrey -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.18 - Release Date: 19/04/2005
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
I like this one as well. Nicely composed and framed. Nice vibrant color. Just as it should be. Paul On Apr 20, 2005, at 2:35 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html Lovely textural shot ... beautiful geometry and starkness. You caught it just right. Godfrey
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
Shel, I totally like this one, the abstract nature, simplicity starkness. In color no less. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 19, 2005 10:21 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence I met a friend for lunch today, and we walked around a hidden area in Larkspur, west of San Quentin prison, called Greenbrae Pier, a small, funky community of old homes built on stilts and piles. This caught my attention and I grabbed a QuikSnap with the little Sony DSC-S85. It's pretty much straight from the camera generated TIF with a very slight color adjustment to eliminate a bluish cast. Comment welcome, of course. Other pics of the community were made on, gasp! film, using an MX and a K24/2.8 lens. Those pics won't be ready for a while. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html Shel PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
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On 4/20/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the kind words, Frank. Glad you liked it ... ;-)) Yer welcome, Shel. I just wanted to comment on something you said in another post on this thread: I have a hard time with color, so the colors generally have to stand out in some manner for me to see them. Strange isn't it - I get some compliments on my color work and it's a result of my not being able to see color very well You know, that makes so much sense, because your colour work really has colours that pop out - often, as in this photo, it's vivid colour against a bland or dark background. Interesting that your preponderance of bw work should contribute to your colour style, which I find to be most refreshing and unique. OTOH, although I too, work mostly in BW, I don't see the same thing happening with the bit of colour work I do; it seems pretty ordinary to me. Interesting... cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Hi Frank, I don't agree with you about my color work often being vivid color against a bland or dark background. At least that's not how I recall the color pics I've posted here. Most do have strong colors, though, and perhaps there tends to be a strong graphic quality to the images, but not many that I can recall with a dark or bland background. Some recent pics are: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/abandoned.html http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/kitty2.html http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mannequin.html http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/snoozer-lite.html http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/prop.html http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/tears.html http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/kit_kat_kite.html Shel [Original Message] From: frank theriault You know, that makes so much sense, because your colour work really has colours that pop out - often, as in this photo, it's vivid colour against a bland or dark background.
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Hi John ... I think people are mostly absent from my color work because, when using color I'm looking for images that are more graphic in nature - shapes, textures, contrasts - and not so much looking to tell a story. For me, color gets in the way and obscures what I'm trying to do with BW, or it's a big distraction. For the most part I try to keep the colors simple because color confuses me, and because I'm more often than not unsure about how to properly expose (since I see in BW and am so used to working with shadows and light rather than the more open feeling that color seems to require). I can't place tonal values when shooting color as with BW. Shel [Original Message] From: John Forbes Frank's right. IMO your colour shots are invariably superb, and this is certainly no exception. That's not to knock your bw; but your colour shots seldom contain people, and I think that makes them more powerful. Perhaps there's just less to think about. :-)
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Glad it pushed your buttons, Ken. ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: Kenneth Waller Shel, I totally like this one, the abstract nature, simplicity starkness. In color no less. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html
PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
I met a friend for lunch today, and we walked around a hidden area in Larkspur, west of San Quentin prison, called Greenbrae Pier, a small, funky community of old homes built on stilts and piles. This caught my attention and I grabbed a QuikSnap with the little Sony DSC-S85. It's pretty much straight from the camera generated TIF with a very slight color adjustment to eliminate a bluish cast. Comment welcome, of course. Other pics of the community were made on, gasp! film, using an MX and a K24/2.8 lens. Those pics won't be ready for a while. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html Shel
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
On 4/19/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I met a friend for lunch today, and we walked around a hidden area in Larkspur, west of San Quentin prison, called Greenbrae Pier, a small, funky community of old homes built on stilts and piles. This caught my attention and I grabbed a QuikSnap with the little Sony DSC-S85. It's pretty much straight from the camera generated TIF with a very slight color adjustment to eliminate a bluish cast. Comment welcome, of course. Other pics of the community were made on, gasp! film, using an MX and a K24/2.8 lens. Those pics won't be ready for a while. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html I gotta hand it to ya, Shel, when you do use colour, they're shots that could ~only~ work in colour! I love this. Simple, stark, beautifully proportioned, amazing use of that bright colour to juxtapose the weathered grey wood. What a great eye to notice that composition as you walked by! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
Quoting Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html That's rather nice, the coloured bench really pops out from the weathered boards of the background. This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
Excellent use of coloUr g The contrast between the weathered painted timbers is very striking. I also like the textures. The top rail of the bench, to my eye, seem's out of place due to its lack of texture, but it make's the image interesting. Shel, when you use colour you certainly use it to good effect. Dave S On 4/20/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I met a friend for lunch today, and we walked around a hidden area in Larkspur, west of San Quentin prison, called Greenbrae Pier, a small, funky community of old homes built on stilts and piles. This caught my attention and I grabbed a QuikSnap with the little Sony DSC-S85. It's pretty much straight from the camera generated TIF with a very slight color adjustment to eliminate a bluish cast. Comment welcome, of course. Other pics of the community were made on, gasp! film, using an MX and a K24/2.8 lens. Those pics won't be ready for a while. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/bf.html Shel
Re: PAW PESO - Bench and Fence
I echo Frank's comments - excellent eye and use of color. Wish I could see so well. -- Bruce Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 7:52:20 PM, you wrote: ft I gotta hand it to ya, Shel, when you do use colour, they're shots ft that could ~only~ work in colour! ft I love this. Simple, stark, beautifully proportioned, amazing use of ft that bright colour to juxtapose the weathered grey wood. ft What a great eye to notice that composition as you walked by! ft cheers, ft frank
