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Subject: [OM] Re: A new year, a new website ...
From: "Allan Mee" <bigalsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:21:29 +0000
I like all the pics and especially pics 11, 14 and 19. Not sure which I like 
best - 11 or 14. I like the form of 11 and the unusual view of 14. Think 
I'll go with no. 11 as my fav.
Allan


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>From: "Marc Lawrence" <MLawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Re: A new year, a new website ...
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:00:54 +1100
>
>
> > Chris Barker wrote:
> > [...]
> > www.threeshoes.net/photography/ang-abbey/
> >
> > It's Anglesey Abbey and its gardens. [...]
> >
> > I have felt free to offer advice to others and I should
> > be most grateful if someone could look and do the same,
> > sometime over the next week or so.
>
>First up, this one
>
>http://www.threeshoes.net/photography/ang-abbey/large-7.html
>
>I particularly like. I suspect it has more of the sky than
>I'd prefer, as it is those bright trunks against the
>different backgrounds that mostly work for me, but then,
>on more contemplation, that blue is definitely a significant
>attractant too. (Does this get an award for "Least Helpful
>Criticism"? <g>)
>
>Detail shots such as this
>
>http://www.threeshoes.net/photography/ang-abbey/large-9.html
>
>interest me, though I'm wondering if cropping of the wheel
>itself may not be to the photo's advantage. Perhaps a lower
>viewpoint would have assisted, though this is obviously
>hard to say without being there.
>
>The composition on this
>
>http://www.threeshoes.net/photography/ang-abbey/large-11.html
>
>is interesting, though I think a slightly squarer crop, with
>much off the right, and just a tad off the left (losing the
>lower of the intruding branches on the left) may improve it.
>It strikes me, in this picture, how much consideration you
>give to composition of overall shapes and major lines in
>these pictures, and that makes them all interesting to
>contemplate. Here is another that might also benefit from a
>sqare crop:
>
>http://www.threeshoes.net/photography/ang-abbey/large-12.html
>
>(I note some of your photos appear quite dark - it may be my
>monitor, but I thought I'd mention it in case others notice it
>too, and in case it is your intent).
>
>The following is quite dark in spots:
>
>http://www.threeshoes.net/photography/ang-abbey/large-14.html
>
>though I see intent there. :-)
>
>Of them all, I am enjoying this one the most:
>
>http://www.threeshoes.net/photography/ang-abbey/large-17.html
>
>I realise credit must also be given to the sculptor and the
>gardener, but the image is definitely composed in a way
>that includes the photographer as the third leg of that
>tripod of attraction. You have a good "eye" there, Chris.
>
>Cheers,
>Marc
>Sydney, Oz
>
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