Thanks so much, Marc, both for your positive response to the project
overall and for your generosity in making so many specific comments.
As expected, I am surprised, pleased, amused, sometimes puzzled by which
images and which aspects of them engage others. An important learning
process for me.
Marc Lawrence wrote:
> Moose wrote:
> > ...
>
>> This was quite an ambitious project for me, and I would appreciate any
>> feedback on content and/or organization/presentation, positive or not.
>> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/index.html>
>>
>
> This is a beautiful, strong profile:
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/People/slides/_MG_3380cr.html>
>
> It reminds me of that Annie Leibovitz profile shot of Willie Nelson.
>
Whoa, don't start inflating my head. :-) I do like it too.
> There's some magnificent selective-focus here, that I find very
> appealing (in both its focus and out-of-focus bits):
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/People/All%20People/slides/_MG_3306cr.html>
>
Sheer, bloody chance. We were moving fairly fast at the time, I forget
why, the neon God is Great sign down a side street caught my eye (you
might say God led me to this image), so I stopped for a moment and shot,
then ran to catch up. In post, I saw how much I liked the effect of long
lens compression on relative sizes of image elements. I didn't know at
first what to do with the brightly lit, OOF people in the front. I
cropped a bit on the left to get rid of one that just didn't work for
me. I loved the rich colors of the others, especially with their
simplified/abstract forms and found that lowering their brightness
enriched the tones and made them fit into the composition nicely. It's
really busy, but somehow works for me.
>
> This is wonderful, reminding me of the apparent peace at the very start
> of 'A Streetcar Named Desire':
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/People/All%20People/slides/_MG_3309.html>
> I know, wrong city, but there's that feel of "evening" and "doorstep
> conversation"/Elysian Fields Avenue about it that triggers that memory
> for me. That's meant as a good thing. :)
>
Funny! I see what you mean, now that I read it. The old, rough, time
blackened, graffitied buildings evoke something a bit gritty. In fact,
that's an upscale coffeehouse full of yuppies and across the street is a
rather nice bar/restaurant/nightclub (in front of which the folks in
3312 are sitting), where we had calamari and beer for a break from
walking, and a very expensive chocolate shop that had a line out the door.
Nobody from 'Desire' could afford to live in Dumbo, which I find out
comes from 'Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass'.
> An eye for a humourous contrast is always welcome here:
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/People/All%20People/slides/_MG_3315cr.html>
>
I have no idea whether it's his birthday that has him so happy. As pure
image, I'd like it better without the background couple,b ut getting the
shot at all was not easy. as story, I like the juxtaposition.
> This is looking like one of my favourites, even though I'm seeing it in
> black and white:
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/People/All%20People/slides/_MG_3320cr2sii.html>
>
There's an alternate crop of this in People>Alternates. The wider shot
shows him ignoring the attractive young women dashing by and toward him,
telling a different story than the close crop. I went with the wider
view partially because it doesn't reveal the lack of sharpness so much.
1/25 sec. @ 130 mm is bad enough, but he raised his head just as I took
the shot.
> Very...interesting, the following, particularly in its quality of having
> two clear "flavours" of light:
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/People/All%20People/slides/_MG_3350rotcr.html>
>
All artificial light, it was dark out on the street by then.
> It also calls curiosity - just what was being said sung or said or staged.
> Like I say, interesting. It's already chasing my last "favourite".
>
Not a clue. There must have been audio, but I was so transfixed by this
apparition, and just dog tired, that all I thought about was getting the
shot and not losing contact with the people who knew how to find the
subway and get home. It was some kind of theater being presented in
highly makeshift quarters, a shop under construction and open to the
street. Man we walked a lot that day!
>
> Finally, part of me - the part of my brain that controls my stomach -
> loves this one most of all:
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/People/All%20People/slides/_MG_3258.html>
> My only criticism is that that hand is not my hand, dammit. ;-)
>
That was really excellent soft serve. And I'd never had it with confetti
sprinkles before - you are right to be jealous. A shot wak ahead is the
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which hangs over the BQE to give wonderful
views of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge. A lovely place to enjoy ice
cream, then take some photos in the things section.
>
> I think the presentation is good. I like the previews of the previous
> and next images available as small thumbnails either side of the current
> image. I also like the presentation of photos against simple black, and
> it's what I am aiming for (I'm currently trying to rework my gallery
> from scratch using the 'Gallery' software).
>
This is all relatively automated, using free JAlbum, which makes changes
to the album(s) and updating the web copy relatively painless. Figuring
out how to store all the images in one place, allowing multiple displays
of them in different sub-galleries, was slightly tricky, but simple to
implement once I figured it out. There are several skins available, and
one may create one's own, although I haven't looked into how easy or
hard that may be.
> Thanks, Moose. They're an enjoyable set. My apologies for brevity in my
> comments -
Heaven's no, thank you for taking the time to look and comment.
> there are a lot of photos, and I sitting in a warm, ethanol haze on a Sunday
> evening, so my own focus is rather unreliable at the moment.
Sounds good.
> I will say that New York is, and always has been, a place I wish to
> eventually spend some time - just visiting, but hopefully not a "flying
> visit" - so I always enjoy such photos, even more so when they're from
> another visitor.
>
NY is a really, really big and varied place. When most people say NY,
they mean the lower part of Manhattan Island. The closest I got to there
this trip was looking at it across the East River. Brooklyn alone has
about 2.5 million people, and would be the fifth largest US city on its
own. What I show in this gallery is only a small part of it.
Thanks,
Moose
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