Hi, I hope I don't get flamed for this, but I set up a little web page of my pics I took with my M3. Now, the page looks pretty amatuerish compared to some of the other members on here, but my only excuse is that up until about 4 months ago the only camera I EVER used was a p&s (the M3 was given to me as a gift). With that caveat, here is my page:

http://home.earthlink.net/~philliprs/index.html

-- Phillip Silitschanu (speedin_saab@hotmail.com), January 22, 2002

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I like your Turkey pics but your other work seems a little too quiet.

This is good though! Its nice to see that more posters are opening up their work for critique. That's what photography is all about. At the end of the day...

...its the images that matter the most.

Congrats,

-- John (ouroboros_2001@yahoo.com), January 22, 2002.

Nice pics, but are there any people in Turkey?

-- Thomas M. Nutter (tmnphotos@erols.com), January 22, 2002.

Nice pictures but I bet they might be improved with a graduated neutral density filter to hold back the sky and let more foreground come through. I need to try one of these filters myself. Cheers.

-- Don (wgpinc@yahoo.com), January 23, 2002.

Phillip screams in anguish, straining at the ropes that bind him to the stake, as the flames engulf his soul. (lol)

Seriously, good start. Part of the journey of photography, and perhaps the most fulfilling part, is exposing one's work to others and getting feedback. Then, you can balance the feedback with your own personal vision, and grow in the process.

While, for example, I might have done some of the images on your site differently, that doesn't really matter. It's your vision that matters for your work. Being as your p&s comment suggests you are relatively new to photography, my suggestion would be to concentrate on understanding what it is about a particular scene that grabs you and compels you to photograph it. Once you understand that, how you should go about photographing the scene will become obvious - aided by a little technical expertise gained along the journey, of course.

Should you be interested, my general work is at http://www.rbarkerphoto.com, and some of the Leica-specific work is at http://www.leica-gallery.net/rbarkerphoto/index.html

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), January 23, 2002.

HI, I added a second page with pictures from Turkey, with some people in it... (the 2 bottom pics are default sunset pics which the web space provider throws in their, their not my sunset pics...)

To access the page:

http://home.earthlink.net/~philliprs/_wsn/page4.html

Thanks for all the feed back, by the way, I really appreciate it. Oh, I just bbought a meter, so now I'll actually have pictures correctly exposed. : )

-- Phillip Silitschanu (speedin_saab@hotmail.com), January 23, 2002.

Hi, Phillip:

You say you began doing this kind of work only 3 months ago and you just bought a meter so that much of your work was done by guessmetering. In that situation, yours is a good start.

I agree with the lack of people issue: several photos don't show any person but they don't seem oriented to show empty spaces because of aesthetic reasons so that they look just empty.

Have you tried B&W? I like it because of the much it teaches (aside from the fact that I think that the old saying "Black and White are the colours of photography" is strictly true . . .)

Thanks for sharing your work, Phillip. Keep posting, please.

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), January 23, 2002.