Damn, our monitors must be very differently calibrated...
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Frank ...
This is a pretty good shot in that I think you captured the dog quite nicely. It might be a more powerful photo if you moved in a bit closer, framed a bit tighter, shot from a slightly lower vantage point, more from the dog's level. Since you mentioned Erwitt, I cannot help but think of the many photos he's presented that were made lower to the ground or showed less of the people above the waist.
The quality of the image is really poor on my screen, with lost detail in the dog, a tonal imbalance (grass too dark, shadows dark with some blocked, or close to blocked, details). I fiddled with it a bit and brought out a broader tonality and opened things up a bit. I did that for myself mostly, just to see how much detail there is in the image. If you'd care to see the result, let me know.
Regardless of my nit picking, I like the photo.
Shel
[Original Message] From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PDML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11/4/2004 3:19:38 PM Subject: PAW: White Pitbull (an hommage to Elliott Erwitt)
Okay, the EE thing is a joke - it's actually somewhat blasphemous to
have a photo of mine mentioned in the same breath as The Master, but
who better to blaspheme but me? <vbg>.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2851649
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