[SI] Moderately cranky Jim's Comments on B&W

Don't like it, don't read it, cause you can't unread it.

Jim Kramer



Skip M: Very nice, but does nothing for me. I suspect that I would like it
better if there were more visible detail, but I know that's not going to
happen in this format.



Peter Chant: Don't you hate it when a bunch of people get in the way of a
perfectly nice picture.



Bob Hickey: Get a scanner or clean the one you've got. This is way too
flat and playing with it in any image editor to get the contrast back up
will help immensely. I know you can do better (I am not talking about the
content, but the quality of the scan) and I am quite sure the image on the
screen looks nothing like your print.



Bret Douglas: Wondered how you got the cliff shot with the D60, now I know.



Quercus: A little flat, bump the contrast up. I do like the windmill motif
though.



The Dave: M&Ms what has the world come to? Don't like the burned out areas
and the crack in the lower left one is distracting. Turn a light on; 1/3s at
iso800?



Doug Payne: I get it. I think I don't like the crop. more ground or a
different color than black for the gallery background?



Tom Hudson: It works. Needs something though, just not sure what.



Ken Nadvornick: Fine shot, no bullet holes in the masks though? The story
made the picture.



Simon Lee: Classic characters, made me want to run out and buy a couple of
hand grenades, a dagger or four and a fancy helicopter.



Steve McCartney: Nice shot. The only thing I would have added is a
steaming cup of coffee.



Bruce Murphy: And the extra-effort-creative-thought award goes to.. Someone
else.



Walt Hanks: Very nice textures, crop is too tight for me, but a great pic
none the less.



Bowser: I'm not a big fan of B&W to start with, but I really miss the rust
colors in this.



Joseph Kewfi: Everyone, Elvis is dead; please stop trying to revive him. On
a happy note I like how the strings and the sound hole are illuminated.



Jim Kramer: This is just sad.



R. Schenck: I'm still waiting for the shark or the octopus to come out.



Christian Gatien: I find I don't like the focus point, I get what you were
trying for, but I need the eyes to be more in the focal plane. Maybe crop
more of the face out so it is more of a background item?



Eric Quesnel-Williams: For me the second out of focus exposure ruined the
shot. Letters would have been nice too. Even a "Kilroy was here"



Al Denelsbeck: Oh Al, We've got to get you a different camera, 'cause if
you's keeps complainin' about the nice camera I let you's use I ain't gonna
let you's use it no more, see?



Brian Baird: I think I am just scared. Yeah, scared with that creepy too
much bass in the movie theater feeling.



Matt Clara: Nice pigeon shot, bad person shot. Especially like the wing tip
on the left side.

Vic Mason: Intriguing, but why does the lamp cast such a harsh shadow? Nice
tonality and shading.



Paresh Pandi: Texture in nice on the trunk, but I would like to see more of
the shape of the tree.



Alan Brown: Submitting an archive shot especially on that we have seen
before; for shame sir, for shame.



Rich Pos: I've found that the bank shots have looked very cluttered in some
of my recent photos. I think I would like a very tight crop at the base of
the pillar just at the edge of the water fall. Did you ever get the new
scanner?

jimkramer wrote:

Doug Payne: I get it. I think I don't like the crop. more ground or a
different color than black for the gallery background?

Well, that makes 2 of us :-) I did consider adding a small white border.
Got lazy. Thanks for the comment.

jimkramer wrote:

Doug Payne: I get it. I think I don't like the crop. more ground or a
different color than black for the gallery background?

Well, that makes 2 of us :-) I did consider adding a small white border.
Got lazy. Thanks for the comment.

If you're not going to take the time, nor apply yourself, you shouldn't bother.


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"jimkramer" writes:

Bruce Murphy: And the extra-effort-creative-thought award goes to.. Someone
else.

As I've already explained. Without the camera I was planning to use,
the shot I wanted was best represented by this cropped archive shot. I
may well have a chance to go chasing it this weekend.

Since it was obvious that most people were going to take BW-converted
scenics, I thought I'd play with simple-subject abstracts. This should
be a fairly easy-to-spot theme through my submissions.

B

"jimkramer" writes:

Bruce Murphy: And the extra-effort-creative-thought award goes to.. Someone
else.

As I've already explained. Without the camera I was planning to use,
the shot I wanted was best represented by this cropped archive shot. I
may well have a chance to go chasing it this weekend.

Since it was obvious that most people were going to take BW-converted
scenics, I thought I'd play with simple-subject abstracts. This should
be a fairly easy-to-spot theme through my submissions.

B

"Alan Browne" wrote in message
...

If you're not going to take the time, nor apply yourself, you shouldn't
bother.


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Start taking your own advice?

"Alan Browne" wrote in message
...

If you're not going to take the time, nor apply yourself, you shouldn't
bother.


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Start taking your own advice?

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:52:28 -0400, jimkramer wrote:



Peter Chant: Don't you hate it when a bunch of people get in the way of a
perfectly nice picture.

Yes, but it was taken on a Saturday afternoon so no chance of taking it
without people. This one had fewer people. If it had been quieter I may
have moved in closer, but that would have involved standing in the middle
of the street. Instead I hung around for a minute or two at the side of
the street out the way waiting for least people.

Well, it has people in it I will call it street photography. Oh sorry I
can't, I didn't use a Leica...

:-)

Interestingly I find I have never really stopped to take a good look at
this building.