Re: Eye contact

2013-12-01 Thread Christine Aguila
I love this book, Derby! I love the expressions, light, and colors! Australians are beautiful! Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad > On Nov 27, 2013, at 4:24 AM, Derby Chang wrote: > > > I made a Blurb. There are probably a few more adjustments before I order, but > this is essentially w

Re: Eye contact

2013-11-28 Thread David Savage
When's the exhibition? :-) On 28 November 2013 19:52, Derby Chang wrote: > > > Thanks for having a look and especially the criticisms. > > It is really interesting when you put two photos side by side. If they are > too similar, you think why am I seeing two when one will say just as much. > If

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2013-11-28 Thread Derby Chang
Thanks for having a look and especially the criticisms. It is really interesting when you put two photos side by side. If they are too similar, you think why am I seeing two when one will say just as much. If you see two dissimilar photos you think what is the link between the two, when ther

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2013-11-27 Thread Igor Roshchin
Bruce, I totally agree with you. More over, - none of the "ground rules" in any form of art should be taken as an absolute dogma. -- That's my sincere believe. I didn't even have much time to analyze this image for the correctness. I just used it as an example of the general trend/approach that

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2013-11-27 Thread Bruce Walker
Igor, I would take that chart with a _really_ healthy dose of salt. Other than the basic rule of don't crop at joints, I wouldn't even give that chart the time of day myself. I have seen very many great shots that "violate" one of their red lines. Much fashion photography seemingly breaks their gui

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2013-11-27 Thread Igor Roshchin
Derby, I had the same impressions (both), as described by Godfrey. As for specific photos, - I thought that the one on p.57 appeared a bit too dark. I especially liked photos on p.67 and 55. A rather strange pose on p.35 caught my attention. Please, excuse me, I will provide an additional comm

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2013-11-27 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Nicely done photos, sir! Like someone else intimated, it feels a little odd that you're using only one page out of two facing pages. The blank space on the left sometimes becomes a little overpowering—I want something to be there, even if it is just titling or simple graphic. G On Nov 27, 20

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2013-11-27 Thread John
On 11/27/2013 5:24 AM, Derby Chang wrote: I made a Blurb. There are probably a few more adjustments before I order, but this is essentially what it will look like. http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/11/eyecontact/index.html Much regret missing the T&A discussion. I had some thoughts along

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2013-11-27 Thread Attila Boros
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Derby Chang wrote: > > I made a Blurb. There are probably a few more adjustments before I order, > but this is essentially what it will look like. > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/11/eyecontact/index.html Very good. Any reason to print only on the odd p

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2013-11-27 Thread David Savage
Damn fine collection of images mate! DS On 27 November 2013 18:24, Derby Chang wrote: > > I made a Blurb. There are probably a few more adjustments before I order, > but this is essentially what it will look like. > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/11/eyecontact/index.html > > Much regre

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2013-11-27 Thread Bruce Walker
What a marvelous and delightful book, Derby! That shot on pg 56 is my fave, but every page is simply terrific. I really like your choice of a spare, white layout. It most resembles my favourite photo books and I'm beginning to see why that works so well. Ya done good! :-) And I'm looking forward

Eye contact

2013-11-27 Thread Derby Chang
I made a Blurb. There are probably a few more adjustments before I order, but this is essentially what it will look like. http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/11/eyecontact/index.html Much regret missing the T&A discussion. I had some thoughts along that subject while putting this together

Re: peso: eye contact

2010-11-13 Thread David J Brooks
Nice shot. It took me a few seconds to realize the car driver was looking as well. Dave On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:37 PM, P N Stenquist wrote: > Underexposed this by about two stops because I inadvertently spun the > shutter speed dial. Saw the display blinking but didn't want to pass up the > sh

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2010-11-12 Thread Jeffery Smith
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2010-11-12 Thread paul stenquist
istine > > > - Original Message - From: "P N Stenquist" > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:37 PM > Subject: peso: eye contact > > >> Underexposed this by about two stops because I inadvertently spun the >> shutte

Re: eye contact

2010-11-12 Thread Christine Aguila
Excellent! Great expression and body position. Great sense of traffic as well. Good one, Paul. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "P N Stenquist" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:37 PM Subject: peso: eye contact

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2010-11-12 Thread Jeffery Smith
Yeah, these days. I pretty much live that too. Jeffery On Nov 12, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > and I live the old guy eyeing her -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directl

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2010-11-12 Thread Bob Sullivan
Paul, What's not to like about a pretty girl in spandex on a bike! The girl is well done (needs to remove the ipod from her ears), and I live the old guy eyeing her grom his car. Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:37 PM, P N Stenquist wrote: > Underexposed this by about two stops because

Re: peso: eye contact

2010-11-12 Thread Jack Davis
Looks like she's a bit surprised or startled. I like the bike/traffic congestion mix, Paul! Jack --- On Fri, 11/12/10, P N Stenquist wrote: > From: P N Stenquist > Subject: peso: eye contact > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 2:3

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2010-11-12 Thread Richard D Bush
Nice shot Paul, even when having to increase exposure. I will never understand why a bicyclist will ride with ear buds in their ears. I strongly feel a cyclist needs their ears for hearing the traffic around them and especially what might be behind them. RB On Nov 12, 2010, at 3:37 PM, P

peso: eye contact

2010-11-12 Thread P N Stenquist
Underexposed this by about two stops because I inadvertently spun the shutter speed dial. Saw the display blinking but didn't want to pass up the shot. Pumped it up in conversion. K-5 and DA* 60-250, ISO 1600, f4 @ 1/2500 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11940070 -- PDML Pentax-Discu

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-28 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 4/27/2009 7:12:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, knarftheria...@gmail.com writes: The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. And feel free to comment on the photo: http://knarfinthecity.blogspo

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2009-04-28 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Bob W wrote: > Don't be too sure. The first time I drove on a French autoroute I spent a > lot of time looking on the map for Péage. That'll take a toll on you... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Di

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2009-04-28 Thread Bob W
> Bob W wrote: > > That's why it is so good to learn foreign languages. It's > not just so you > > can order a beer and chat up girls. It's also a great > pleasure to be able to > > read the literature. > > > > Bob > > and you don't end up spending all day trying to find > "einbahnstrasse" on

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2009-04-28 Thread Doug Brewer
frank theriault wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Is that the place where you go to pick up girls? Any place Doug goes is a place to go pick up girls... not once I get there. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_p

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-28 Thread Doug Brewer
Mark Roberts wrote: Doug Brewer wrote: Bob W wrote: That's why it is so good to learn foreign languages. It's not just so you can order a beer and chat up girls. It's also a great pleasure to be able to read the literature. and you don't end up spending all day trying to find "einbahnstra

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2009-04-28 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > and you don't end up spending all day trying to find "einbahnstrasse" on the > map. That would be a waste of time. A quick Google Images search shows that there are many helpful signs, complete with arrows, to point you to Einbahnstrasse. -

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-28 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Is that the place where you go to pick up girls? Any place Doug goes is a place to go pick up girls... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net htt

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2009-04-28 Thread Mark Roberts
Doug Brewer wrote: Bob W wrote: That's why it is so good to learn foreign languages. It's not just so you can order a beer and chat up girls. It's also a great pleasure to be able to read the literature. and you don't end up spending all day trying to find "einbahnstrasse" on the map. Is t

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2009-04-28 Thread Doug Brewer
Bob W wrote: That's why it is so good to learn foreign languages. It's not just so you can order a beer and chat up girls. It's also a great pleasure to be able to read the literature. Bob and you don't end up spending all day trying to find "einbahnstrasse" on the map. -- PDML Pentax-Discu

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2009-04-28 Thread Bob W
That's why it is so good to learn foreign languages. It's not just so you can order a beer and chat up girls. It's also a great pleasure to be able to read the literature. Bob > > ...getting pedantry (I'm taking your word as proof that word actually > exists, and has nothing to do with crime)

RE: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-28 Thread Bob W
> > > On a point of pedantry, 'The Stranger' is not a literal > translation, and > > conveys nothing of what the novel is about. 'Outsider' is a > much better > > translation. > > I had a professor who spent the better part of two classes telling us > why The Outsider is the ~only~ proper trans

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2009-04-28 Thread Luiz Felipe
...getting pedantry (I'm taking your word as proof that word actually exists, and has nothing to do with crime) further away, there is no way to properly translate some ideas. The "map" changes as you change the language, to quote some sci-fi author. Meaning the ideas often can't be properly de

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2009-04-28 Thread Mark Roberts
frank theriault wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Bob W wrote: On a point of pedantry, 'The Stranger' is not a literal translation, and conveys nothing of what the novel is about. 'Outsider' is a much better translation. I had a professor who spent the better part of two classes tellin

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-28 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi Frank:  That's a terrific photo--moment caught just right.  Composition > great too!  Cheers, Christine Thanks, Christine. And thanks to everyone else who commented and looked. I didn't shoot much this past weekend (not as much as u

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-28 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Bob W wrote: > On a point of pedantry, 'The Stranger' is not a literal translation, and > conveys nothing of what the novel is about. 'Outsider' is a much better > translation. I had a professor who spent the better part of two classes telling us why The Outsider

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-28 Thread Christine Aguila
Hi Frank: That's a terrific photo--moment caught just right. Composition great too! Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "frank theriault" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:12 AM Subject: PESO - Eye Contact The titl

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2009-04-27 Thread Bob W
> > Thanks, Luiz. > > I was actually considering that, but I thought it might be a little > too "Camus" (in many countries, including Canada, the title to his > first novel, L'Etranger, is translated into English as "The Outsider". > (I understand that in the US it's usually translated literally

RE: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-27 Thread Bob W
> > The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything > better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. > > And feel free to comment on the photo: > > http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-contact.html > > thanks, > frank > Great picture. Title not import

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2009-04-27 Thread Timbah!
I think the title is good and the photo is excellent! A+ :) .t frank theriault wrote: The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. And feel free to comment on the photo: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/04

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2009-04-27 Thread David J Brooks
I like it and the title seems ok for it. I like how the bike tie downs break up the groups. Dave On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:12 AM, frank theriault wrote: > The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything > better.  Feel free to suggest something more workable. > > And fee

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2009-04-27 Thread Ken Waller
Nice momment captured. Wouldn't change a thing. How about 'Pick of the litter'? Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "frank theriault" Subject: PESO - Eye Contact The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I

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2009-04-27 Thread Cotty
On 27/4/09, Luiz Felipe, discombobulated, unleashed: >Call it Sally and slap Cotty' -er, whatever you call it, When I was born they slapped my mom. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PD

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2009-04-27 Thread Luiz Felipe
Lucky me, never got to notice that translation... Stranger gets me a negative content Outsider lacks. I felt no dark emotions watching your pic - but some sense of exclusion countered(?) by the look on the visible faces. Call it Sally and slap Cotty' -er, whatever you call it, very interesti

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2009-04-27 Thread Cotty
On 27/4/09, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: >The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything >better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. > >And feel free to comment on the photo: > >http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-contact.html 'Five L

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-27 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Luiz Felipe wrote: > Outsider?? > > Very interesting, Frank. Thanks, Luiz. I was actually considering that, but I thought it might be a little too "Camus" (in many countries, including Canada, the title to his first novel, L'Etranger, is translated into English a

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2009-04-27 Thread Luiz Felipe
Outsider?? Very interesting, Frank. LF frank theriault escreveu: The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. And feel free to comment on the photo: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-contact.html t

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2009-04-27 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > The title works very well. I don't think you could have timed this any > better, Frank. Maybe a touch of crop on the right? I didn't time anything, the kids did. ;-) I actually cropped quite a bit off the left. For some reason I thought I

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-27 Thread Doug Brewer
frank theriault wrote: The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. And feel free to comment on the photo: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-contact.html thanks, frank The title works very well. I

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2009-04-27 Thread Jack Davis
"Hi, come on, we'll make room." Very nice moment, Paul. Jack --- On Mon, 4/27/09, frank theriault wrote: > From: frank theriault > Subject: PESO - Eye Contact > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 7:12 AM > The title ju

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-27 Thread Dario Bonazza
Hey, there's truly something in this picture! The eye contact, the different hair, clothing and stance of the young girls (have you noticed how the one on the far lefts stands out of the crowd?) and all the rest raise a lot of questions, so the picture asks for prolonged attention. I be

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-27 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:17 AM, William Robb wrote: > "Piss off and go away, namby little backpack boy" Yes! I like it! > >> And feel free to comment on the photo: > > I don't get it. Me neither. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax

Re: PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-27 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "frank theriault" Subject: PESO - Eye Contact > The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything > better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. > "Piss off and go away, namby little backpack b

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2009-04-27 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
good photo! seems an apt title to me. :-) G On Apr 27, 2009, at 7:12 AM, frank theriault wrote: The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. And feel free to comment on the photo: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.

PESO - Eye Contact

2009-04-27 Thread frank theriault
The title just doesn't feel right to me, but I can't think of anything better. Feel free to suggest something more workable. And feel free to comment on the photo: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-contact.html thanks, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-