Howdy folks,

Just after some feedback on a few images. Had the M6 for a month now and have finally scanned the odd shot or two. Getting images onto the web will be a first however, so I hope this works. You can find them here.... hopefully!

http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi

Thanks for your input folks.

Wayne

-- Wayne Haag (wayne@wetafx.co.nz), August 15, 2001

Answers

Your link didn't work for me, Wayne. Just said "web error"...

-- Steve Hoffman (shoffman2@socal.rr.com), August 15, 2001.

Thanks for checking Steve. I'll see what I can do.

Wayne

-- Wayne Haag (wayne@wetafx.co.nz), August 15, 2001.

Okay, lets try this.

http://community.webshots.com/album/19391087MhntFltHKd

Wayne

-- Wayne Haag (wayne@wetafx.co.nz), August 15, 2001.

Ah, that's more like it. Great pics, Wayne!

-- Steve Hoffman (shoffman2@socal.rr.com), August 15, 2001.

Cool. My kind of strange! :-)

-- Michael Darnton (mdarnton@hotmail.com), August 15, 2001.

Let's see if this works...

http://community.webshots.com/album/19391087MhntFltHKd

-- Bong Munoz (bong@techie.com), August 15, 2001.

I liked "walker", and think "boxer" would have been great if you had just moved in a bit tighter. Great pics for the first go-around - congrats!

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), August 15, 2001.

Nice stuff! Poignant and mysterious. I like Walker a lot too. Just got back from Sydney myself, working on some pix now ...

And your picture prep is excellent, they look great on screen.

thanks for showing them.

-- Godfrey (ramarren@bayarea.net), August 16, 2001.

Hey thanks for the feedback so far folks. I'm using that site as a viewing place, it's easy and free. Feel free to check back as I'm updating as I speak! I know it takes time to craft up a detailed response and to do so for every image you see would take years, but I'm looking for tough critical feedback.

Any and all comments are most appreciated regardless.

Thanks so much.

Wayne

-- Wayne Haag (wayne@wetafx.co.nz), August 16, 2001.

Wayne

Although you underline that you wish to get tough feedback - I'm sorry, all I can say is: Great Pictures! You have an eye, for composition, light, situation. You have technique as the tonal range and balance testify. If you're not a pro yet I would say: Go for it! Or at least sell your prints. "Walker" is a winner. You may contact me personally since I'm investing the small change I get from selling my products in prints from amateurs from all over the globe. Kind of exchange program - technology for art...;o)

Cheers

-- Lutz Konermann (lutz@konermann.net), August 16, 2001.

Interesting images, well executed and good web presentation. The only image I saw that could be "improved" was Jeweller, my favorite, but both left and right sides reflecting street should go so that the visual humor of poster girl's face with properly dressed male's body is... pow in your face there.

thanks for views from down-under.

Steven

-- Steven Alexander (alexpix@worldnet.att.net), August 16, 2001.

Wayne

Marvellous stuff, congratulations! You have a real eye and you make it look easy. Characteristic "Leica-type" images - even for these shots when you didn't use a Leica. Makes me want to shoot more black and white.

-- Robin Smith (smith_robin@hotmail.com), August 16, 2001.

Wayne,

It looks like the Leica fits you well. I would stick with that lens for a while, it seems to match your vision well. My three favorites are the "walker" because of the mood and tonal range, the "Jeweler" because of the humorous juxtaposition of the poster and the worker, and the "Gallery" because of the candid symmetry.

It is interesting that many of these photos had to be "seen" and grabbed very quickly. A Lot of new Leica users are happy just to expose and focus on static subjects in the beginning. These images are very strong.

Keep it up!

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), August 16, 2001.

Thanks for the 'light' feedback folks! ~8-)

I imagine a lot of you good people out there are familiar with each other through post after post to this forum. I'm not sure if others have introduced themselves, but I will now do so.

I am 34, born in Melbourne, Australia.

I have had a camera in my hands from a very early age, nothing quite as lovely as the Leica, but a camera of some description. I spent 6 years gaining qualifications as an industrial electronic technician (not what I wanted to do) before finally enrolling in a part time photography course. From there I eventually got into the Photography Degree course at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT. I graduated with distinction in 1994.

The course was commercial, not a fine art degree. Having said that, it was incredibly creative and some of what was produced in that building approached art. We got hard-core lens/optics theory alongside studies of Vermeer. The optics I forgot, the Vermeer I carry inside always.

I was one of the very first students to create a wholly 'Digital' folio at RMIT. I shot people, environments, landscapes, whatever and composited the various elements together in Photoshop. (Prior to that I was compositing 4"x 5" with pin registration and Lith film as a mask/ alpha channel). What elements I couldn't shoot, I created with 3D modelling software... just like film visual effects.

Fast forward to my current job. Digital Matte Painter working on "The Lord of The Rings" here in New Zealand. Between RMIT and here I have assisted many photographers and shot many a job with most formats. All the while moving away from photography into the film industry/visfx.

It has been six years since I have picked up a camera to shoot something other than landscape/environment for visfx. Only now, after these years of working in such a shallow industry, do I feel the call of my first love, photography. As such, I celebrated the reunion with a new Leica M6 and a commitment to get back to what I love.

The question now is, do I get back into the wet d/room or stay with the digital d/room!??

This whole 'web' thing is still doing my head in though!! ~8-)

Thankyou all for your responses.

Wayne

-- Wayne Haag (wayne@wetafx.co.nz), August 16, 2001.

Wayne,

excellent contributions. thank you. I particularly admired 'gallery2' for the drama of participant and the interaction with their environment. how will the artwork affect the viewer? live's have changed from such encounters.

thank you for shraring.

-- daniel taylor (lightsmythe@agalis.net), August 16, 2001.

Hi, Wayne:

Thanks for sharing ! Great contribution. I think that we all should post our images much more often than usual here. This is supposed to be a photography site, isn't it? I promise I'll post some myself in the next couple of days. Gallery, Walker and Jeweler is my selection, in the same order. I was a little puzzled by both Clouds: they look a lot like tele though taken with a 35 mm. Did you crop the clouds from a larger original? Anyhow, that is the way I'd like to photograph clouds . . . I'll continue trying ! Only that I'm a "romantic" and use digital tools only to make posted images look the way they do in paper (which I seldom am really able to succeed at). And my prints, in turn are just the same they came from the 1-hour photo shop. I'll give a try at developing / printing my own stuff one of these years. Thanks again. Give us some more and have fun !

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), August 17, 2001.