Re: PESO PAW - Fire Eating Drummer

[John Forbes]

Hear hear.
John
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:10:38 -0700, Shel Belinkoff  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

.......
I do, however, strongly disagree with your comment about the casual needs
of the PAW and PESO postings.  I believe those who post should at least  
try
to make the best renderings possible. The world is already too filled  
with
junk images and photographs, and posting crap without at least trying to
make the results good, or asking for help, or at least acknowledging that
one's skills weren't up to the task (which is, perhaps, tantamount to
asking for suggestions), does the poster and the community here, as well  
as
other viewers, a disservice.

Shel

[Original Message]
From: Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Date: 4/17/2005 9:23:42 AM
Subject: RE: PESO PAW - Fire Eating Drummer
Hi Shel,
I also see the whole image, but only by a whisker because I have the
"Office" toolbar permanently docked to the top of my screen.  I could
autohide it, but then it would unnerve me to by jumping in and out when
the
cursor touches the screen edge.
Bruce hit right onto my feeling about this picture, that the role of the
standing man is ambiguous.  Is he associated with the performance?  Is  
he
merely a bystander?  Or is he a bystander who has ingratiated himself  
into
the performance?  What is clear is that he is the most visually
interesting
part of the picture, while the man whose story the picture tells is
secondary.
But further, I'm underwhelmed by the tonal quality of this picture.   
Here
again it's obvious that the standing man is pivotal to the shot, because
all
of the optimisation is upon him.  He is wonderfully tonally rendered,  
but
the plastic drums, the building opposite, and the white car behind the
drummer all are practically toneless.

If you tell me that this is a scan from a print, and that you disdain
digital post processing, and prefer to faithfully reproduce the print,  
and
that you don't care about tonal quality outside the subject matter of a
picture, then I'll withdraw my criticism.  Not because the print (if  
there
is one) couldn't be better, but because correcting what I consider to be
problem areas without obvious burning and dodging transitions would be a
challenge not justified by the needs of a casual PESO PAW forum.

Then again, if you do digitally post process your shots, there are  
several
pathways to optimising all the tonal areas of a picture.  The fact that
you
didn't use one of them suggests you have chosen the altruistic path of
image
purity and integrity.  That's my good spin on it, anyway ;-)




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