RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-22 Thread Bob W
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stan Halpin Sent: 22 October 2008 03:09 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. A few thoughts. First, again with the caveat that I am not familiar with the photo-essay concept as might

RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-21 Thread Bob W
-installing Windows and Office following an act of gross stupidity over the weekend. Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: 20 October 2008 20:07 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-21 Thread Stan Halpin
A few thoughts. First, again with the caveat that I am not familiar with the photo-essay concept as might be interpreted by the distinguished learned judges, I have been uncomfortable with the two- part structure you have selected since you first mentioned it. Without narration (as in a

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-20 Thread Boris Liberman
Bob W wrote: Here's another draft of the slideshow, incorporating some suggestions people have kindly made: http://www.web-options.com/ARPS2/ Comments solicited. Thanks, Bob Bob, I think that #2 is considerably weaker than photo #5 whereas they seem to be about the same motif. Also I am

Re: RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-17 Thread mike wilson
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever their other qualities, the RPS judges just won't even consider them if they have gross technical faults. How very middleagedwhitemale of them. Don't they know art (sorry, Art) when they see it? Outraged of Notting Hill

RE: RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-17 Thread Bob W
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever their other qualities, the RPS judges just won't even consider them if they have gross technical faults. How very middleagedwhitemale of them. Don't they know art (sorry, Art) when they see it? Outraged of Notting Hill They're just a bunch

RE: RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-17 Thread Bob W
Here's another draft of the slideshow, incorporating some suggestions people have kindly made: http://www.web-options.com/ARPS2/ Comments solicited. Thanks, Bob From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever their other qualities, the RPS judges just won't even consider them if they have

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-16 Thread mike wilson
From: Stan Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/10/16 Thu AM 12:27:26 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. Not sure I understand the criteria for success in this context, but among these 9 images, I think

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-16 Thread Joseph McAllister
My opinion... I'd drop the man in the door image. The cut off human and very little detail to show what I can assume is the final step in the process as you depicted it, storage, just don't do it for me. I'd then move the last image into position #3. Doesn't seem to fit as a last image,

RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-16 Thread Bob W
AM 12:27:26 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. Not sure I understand the criteria for success in this context, but among these 9 images, I think the strongest and the one I would end a mini-show

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Christine Aguila
List' pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 6:01 AM Subject: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. A couple of days ago I posted a first edit of the tanneries in Fez: http://www.web-options.com/Tanneries/ For the ARPS submission I need an essay of exactly 15 pictures. I have

RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Bob W
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christine Aguila Sent: 15 October 2008 07:10 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. Hi Bob: Boy, your 9 pic essay really is great. The sequencing looks good to me. You know, I really like this shot http

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Bob Sullivan
-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 6:01 AM Subject: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. A couple of days ago I posted a first edit of the tanneries in Fez: http://www.web-options.com/Tanneries/ For the ARPS submission I need an essay of exactly

RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Bob W
Mail List Subject: Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. Bob, All the Fez photos are very accomplished and the series are interesting. I think the problem with the clincher is not having a very close photo. Perhaps some link of portrait would be too cliche, but I yearn

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of days ago I posted a first edit of the tanneries in Fez: http://www.web-options.com/Tanneries/ For the ARPS submission I need an essay of exactly 15 pictures. I have decided that I will probably make 2 mini-essays,

RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Bob W
[...] Here is my 2nd edit of the tanneries section, done as a Flash gallery so you can see approximately how the slideshow will work: http://www.web-options.com/RPSTanneries/ I'd welcome your thoughts about the content, sequencing and so on. It will need to lose some pictures, but

RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Bob W
October 2008 20:08 To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please. I agree - I think a portrait of one of the workers would be very effective as a clincher for the tanneries shots. Unfortunately I haven't got one - I wasn't shooting to a plan

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread David J Brooks
Very nice Bob. As Frank said, i don't envy the thought of editing those to 8-9 photos. Dave On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of days ago I posted a first edit of the tanneries in Fez: http://www.web-options.com/Tanneries/ For the ARPS submission I need

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Stan Halpin
Not sure I understand the criteria for success in this context, but among these 9 images, I think the strongest and the one I would end a mini-show with is #7. The bright yellow is a nice exclamation point behind what has been mostly muted colors. stan On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:41 PM, David J

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Stan Halpin
I went back and looked at the whole set in that first edit. For what it is worth, I would still end with #7 from the reduced set. Number 8 and 9 I would delete. In their place I would use 9299-213 in position #7 and A039901 in #8 position. Oh, and I would choose -171 vs. -174 for the

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-15 Thread Doug
On Oct 12, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Bob W wrote: A couple of days ago I posted a first edit of the tanneries in Fez: http://www.web-options.com/Tanneries/ For the ARPS submission I need an essay of exactly 15 pictures. I have decided that I will probably make 2 mini-essays, presented as a slideshow,

Re: Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-14 Thread Boris Liberman
It is really tough question, Sir Bob, that you're asking. I, for one, really liked the slide show. Many photographs of other photographers came up in my mind when I saw this gallery. I cannot say much about this APRS submission business, but I do thank you for taking me visually along on your

Fez - candidate essay for the RPS. Opinions please.

2008-10-12 Thread Bob W
A couple of days ago I posted a first edit of the tanneries in Fez: http://www.web-options.com/Tanneries/ For the ARPS submission I need an essay of exactly 15 pictures. I have decided that I will probably make 2 mini-essays, presented as a slideshow, one of which will be about the tanneries -