Thanks for your detailed comments. I find it very interesting to see
what you see that I didn't... but that maybe I should. To me, 6946 is
all about the architectural bits and the shadows they cast and the
contrast with the much softer clouds. To be honest I never even noticed
the "grotty" fence.
I don't really understand your comment about 6925 and the nice old
brickwork spoiled by a modern facade. While that may be true I didn't
create the scene, I only recorded it. Your comment about 6905 also
indicates that you're looking much more deeply into what I shot than I
did. You're wondering about the artist and what's behind the
composition and I see only interesting color and shape. I guess I still
need to learn to "see".
The people shots in the restaurant are only incidental and not part of
the "gallery".
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> Chuck
>
> Sorry, I deleted all those posts as I couldn't go and I didn't want to
> feel deprived (:-)). I have the day off today, my wife is engaged on
> her computer doing a course and the builders have not arrived; so I
> have time to dissect the gallery which you have kindly asked for
> comments on. Here are mine ...
>
> I like the shots of yours with colour, as well as the ones with humour
> or whimsy. For some reason I didn't find as much interest in the mono
> shots, well composed and lit as they are. I suppose one reason might
> have been something to degrade one or two of the mono shots: for
> instance, 6946 has the rather smart "Memorial Promenade"lights and
> walkway on the left, but the rather grotty (real life, I suppose)
> fence on the other. The smart and ambitious brought down to earth by
> real life? Well, perhaps, but that sort of shot could have done with
> more made of the grotty in the composition.
>
> A similar reluctance bears down on me when I see nice old brickwork
> spoiled by a modern facade that could have been so much better. This
> applies to 6925 with the "man hanging by his fingertips". The old
> lettering and the style of architecture are rather ruined by the
> columns and the colour of the frame of the shop on the ground floor.
> The composition might have benefited from cutting out the cars and
> other buildings on the left, but that's nitpicking after the shot is
> taken, really.
>
> No 6905 could be quite humorous: did the artist know what "cyst"
> meant? Is that his handle, and was he practising to get the size,
> colour and "typeface" right as he wielded his tins of paint?
>
> No 6907 looks nondescript to me and lets down your gallery. I can't
> see the focal point, and that horrid fence detracts from the colours
> of the shop front. But the next few, all the way to 6925, are
> interestingly composed, nicely lit and full of colour, either gentle
> or strong. Most of the remainder are attractive shots, particularly
> the "41" which is rather cleverly composed. The photos of people in
> restaurant mean nothing to the casual viewer because you haven't
> placed them. Who are they? Did they ask to have their photos taken?
>
> I'm no good at people shots, inasmuch as I fail to get them through
> diffidence, but you should pepper your gallery with people. You are a
> good people photographer, after all, I suspect that you just need to
> go and get them. The restaurant ones don't really count ...
>
> Chris
>
> And the last photo is rather boring, Chuck
> On 26 Aug 2008, at 01:06, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Maybe this shouldn't have been posted under "Scott Kelby Photowalks".
>> In any case I haven't received a single comment good or bad about the
>> photo link I posted. I know I'm a bit out of my element trying to
>> take
>> photos more akin to Nathan but... are they that bad? Yeah, I know, no
>> beach, no beach babes and no cute waitresses. Actually, even very few
>> people. Characteristic of the decline of upstate New York, I guess.
>> Much of the city is empty including the otherwise delightful river
>> walk.
>>
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Binghamton/>
>>
>> The last couple shots show part of the Photowalk group at an Italian
>> restaurant after the walk and then a larger shot of the restaurant
>> interior. The last shot is the old Lackawanna rail station where the
>> walk started. Note the tower beyond the station. That's an
>> experimental radio transmission tower erected by Marconi in 1913 to
>> try
>> radio communication to Lackawanna railroad trains.
>
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