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Subject: [OM] Re: Some more pictures
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:01:15 -0400
My favorite is the lighthouse.  Except for placing the rain drops in 
focus it might have been an ordinary snapshot.  Now, if only the 
lighthouse wasn't leaning.  Did Bonanno Pisano have a hand in it?

Chuck Norcutt

Christos Stavrou wrote:

> Hi Fabio,
> 
> I particularly like some slides(?) from Cabo Verde and Ponza, and the
> b&w portraits
> For example:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside/218318712/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside/218312877/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside/208180224/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside/218315609/ (budapest)
> and
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside/218281798/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside/217634474/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside/217634472/
> 
> The first exhibit good colour qualities and management (btw, is it
> velvia?) although many of the slides appear to me too dark in the
> shadows and generally uneven. Maybe too much intentional
> underexposing, maybe the lighting was not ideal (perhaps too much
> range of contrast that couldn't survive a 5 stop slide capacity?).
> Whereas in the first shot in the cafe it is quite good, plus the
> choice of 'canvas' (film) here is very succesful for the complimentary
> red and green.
> 
> I find the portraits as the most interesting of all because of their
> higher compositional originality. I admire the intimacy and desicive
> moment of the highly contrasted girl who keeps an explicit eye-to-eye
> relationship with the viewer, and still implicitly with her
> cigarrette, interacting so with her space and the surrounded crowd. As
> well as the man behind the net. Great composition..how did you take
> it, if you don't mind? Small aperture and underexposing on his clothes
> around 1 stop?.. and do you remember the film?
> 
> C.S.
> 
> On 8/18/06, Fabio Fiorellato <flowerside@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've just uploaded into my Flickr account some (not always) recent pictures.
>>
>>
>>The full bunch 'o pictures can be browsed at:
>>
>>[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerside ]
>>
>>As always, critiques and comments are welcome!
>>
> 
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