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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 5/5/2011
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Thank you for your encouraging message, Charlie. I pay attention to comments on framing, etc., and sometimes I find them very helpful, but I do not let them worry me. When I visited your own portfolio I was impressed by the great variety of your work. My own photography is more limited in range, mostly very journalistic in style, and mainly oriented towards wide-angle views. Panoramas are my main interest (that's as wide as you can get, of course!), but panoramas do not show very well on Usefilm. If you are interested, you could visit Microsoft's photosynth net site where a few of my panoramas appear in the Rogerama collection. Would be interested to hear your views on any one of them.
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charlie f. kohn
{K:25919} 5/4/2011
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dear roger,
don´t let be mistaken, this is a very nice and carefully composed close-up. no doubt about that. what may concern anybody is the final touch though, and that is arbitrary. you might find an unlimited number of proposals to shift the frame this way or the other for reasons unlimited as well. what i want to say, believe in yourself and develop accordng to experience and comparison. the rest are opinions and not better value. i do hope i will be understood as not being offensive.
thank you
saludos cordiales
charlie.f.kohn@sixpence-pictures.com
photography // design // madrid
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atalay karacaorenli
{K:1557} 3/30/2011
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nice catch macro;)
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/19/2011
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Ah, Paris! One of the most delightful places in the world to photograph. I envy you. But please don't limit yourself to lomography!!
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Chris CC
{K:1510} 3/18/2011
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You're welcome Roger. I really do like your work. I did not say that you are a journalist, you might have been after all :-) I am just trying to say that you capture the moment and I can visit a little places I've never seen while looking at your work. I am glad that you appreciate my photos. I will go to Paris tomorrow and I as I found my old FED, I will make some lomography in B/W. All my best wishes, Chris.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/18/2011
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Thanks for the encouragement, Chris. By journalistic style I didn't mean to imply that I am a journalist who is into recording newsy things, but that I take things "as they are" without playing around with them. Very straightforward, literal photographs. I have a very poor visual memory, and it is my way of recording what I enjoyed looking at. Your style, for instance, is much more artistic and varied.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/18/2011
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Thanks for the encouragement, Chris. By journalistic style I didn't mean to imply that I am a journalist who is into recording newsy things, but that I take things "as they are" without playing around with them. Very straightforward, literal photographs. I have a very poor visual memory, and it is my way of recording what I enjoyed looking at. Your style, for instance, is much more artistic and varied.
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Chris CC
{K:1510} 3/17/2011
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Dear Roger,
I admire very much your photos, and I would need lots of time to comment all those I like, but I will also study your potfolio. Journalistic photos tell us stories about the world around us. I would love to take the time and have the opportunity to do this kind of photography but unfortunately I am working in the IT and I do not live either in a city where interesting journalistic subjects occur very often. Unfortunately the tragic events in Japan brought another kind of news to tell about in images, but also the pictures in peaceful times are very rich for us, not living in that part of the world. I feel sadness and pain for the human and ecological tragedy which came up so suddenly, and reminds us again how fragile we are facing the nature...
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/17/2011
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Chris, I have been encouraged by your comments on several of my photos... and you pick out the ones I am most proud of! You have a very different approach in your own photos, so I think it is very broad minded of you to like mine, which are so journalistic in style. Yours are more like poetry! And so varied!! I am very busy here in Japan because of the terrible earthquake and tsunami, but when I have more time I will study your photos and make my own comments...
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/17/2011
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Thank you, my friend. Your comments encourage me.
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Chris CC
{K:1510} 3/16/2011
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A great M42 lens collection :-) I would love to have one like that. I will look to your pictures with great pleasure. Regards, Chris.
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Nanda Baba das
{K:78053} 3/16/2011
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Wonderful image, excellent composition, DOF, colors.
Best regars dear friend,
Nanda
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/16/2011
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I had a limited budget and mostly bought FSU lenses and E.German, etc., but over the years I assembled a fine collection of M42 lenses. I hated zooms, but had 8 & 16 (fish-eye) , 20, 30, 40, 58, 80, 90 (macro) and 135mm lenses. There are examples from most of these among my portfolio here. I got almost nothing for them when I sold them.
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Chris CC
{K:1510} 3/16/2011
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Still a nice camera. I don't have either rare cameras, but I have a few using M42 lenses (Zenit 11, Practika, Porst), a Yashica Mat 124G, and a Minolta XG-M. I don't really have time dealing with chemical process and I also work mostly on digital today. But I like the warmth of a film, even if I scan it after developpement. The Zenit 11 I bought it new as I was 14, and it still works very well after 23 years of pretty hard service. Photography is a wonderful hobby!
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/16/2011
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It wasn't a collectible by any means. Just a manual SLR (Bessaflex), very battered from much rough usage, with mostly old M42 lenses... which I no longer used after abandoning film for a digital work-flow. But I miss it! Do you have details of your collection anywhere I could access? I don't collect cameras but I have possessed a very wide range over the 60 years of my hobby.
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Chris CC
{K:1510} 3/16/2011
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Oh, did you sell it? You should have told me, I collect cameras :-) Regards, Chris.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/16/2011
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Thank you, Chris. I recently sold the camera and lens that produced this lovely image... it was quite a wrench!
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Chris CC
{K:1510} 3/15/2011
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Beautiful picture Roger. The low DOF gives a 3rd dimension to the picture. Congratulations for this amazing shot. Regards, Chris
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/2/2011
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Thank you, Maluses. Yours is the first comment on this photo in years! It was one of the last I took with a film camera...
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Malules Fernandez
{K:54810} 3/2/2011
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lovely image!
regards,
Malules
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atalay karacaorenli
{K:1557} 12/17/2008
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Fantastic, well done
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/29/2008
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Yes, Amitava. Thanks for letting me know. I might have missed it, as I've been very busy and the top page draws me less frequently than it once did. I guess I'm usually a bit more "prosaic" with my shots than this, which is one of my more "poetic" ones.
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Amitava Banerjea
{K:7088} 8/28/2008
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It's a great image and unusual for you, Roger. I see AJ's critique finally made it to the front page, only 2.5yrs after the fact! :-)
Hope all is well with you.
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 5/9/2006
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Roger:
Well done . . . in answer to your question about what I think. These colors were wonderfully well together and your DOF is perfect. Well done my friend!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 5/9/2006
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Thanks for flagging me, John. I might have missed it, as the front page is not very inspiring these days, so I visit much less frequently. I am really enjoying the large panoramic images, and have pretty well mastered the business of stitching them... It is most difficult when there are crowds around, as there were for both of photo expeditions during "Golden Week." But it is very rewarding when you succeed.
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AJ Miller
{K:49168} 5/9/2006
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Well, we got there eventually, Roger! I must say, this has been quite an exciting week for me on UF and all the niggles of the past few months suddenly seem dim, distant and insignificant. And this image looks lovely right in the middle of the front page...
John
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Mary Brown
{K:71879} 4/21/2006
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I love it, Roger. It is so very pretty and dainty, yet vibrant in colour. Superb.
MAry
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Manu
{K:13082} 4/20/2006
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Very delicate and light....very Japanese....well done Roger
Cheers
"Squadron Leader" Manu
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 4/20/2006
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This is a wonderful composition Roger. It's an acer isn't it....sure looks like one of the ones my wife nurtures. I tried a shot at ours last year but didn't post. I love your result though with the effect of in and out of focus. Beautiful colours and a perfect dof creating that lovely complimentry background. Well done to you my friend.
I often envy you with your use of film cameras but I am now so totally immersed in digital I wouldn't go back....but oh how I wish I had retained one film camera. My very best wishes to you as always.....Ray
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Bill Gibson
{K:2701} 4/20/2006
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wonderful photo, colour
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/19/2006
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Thank you, Gabriela. Think of those stray leaves at upper right as the photographic equivalent of a beauty spot!
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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16594} 4/19/2006
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"Coming in from the...green" (not fog).Love it, sharp-soft-sharp, a delicate sequence and an essay on "art and nature".Though.....I could have done without the disturbance in the right upper corner.
Best regards,
Gabriela
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AJ Miller
{K:49168} 4/19/2006
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Do I click them? I did a few times to see what happened, and the answer seemed to be nothing... But I think I read somewhere, perhaps in one of the Forums, that that's how featured critiques are selected, so maybe someone else rated the comment.
John
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/19/2006
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I don't think it can be that, John. I've never ever got into rating comments. I have enough problems with rating photos. I think I did once click on an "abusive" one, quite unconscionable and definitely not in the spirit of Usefilm. Do you click them? Maybe I should start. I do get some very interesting and helpful comments...
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AJ Miller
{K:49168} 4/19/2006
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Well, well, so it did! Hope to see your image on the front page soon! Incidentally, does that mean someone (possibly you) clicked on "Rate comment" and rated it as "Good"? I understood that was how images got considered under this award.
John
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/19/2006
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John, I see your crit made it as the critique of the day. I checked, but it isn't on the front page yet. Thank you for getting me there. [g]
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AJ Miller
{K:49168} 4/19/2006
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Ah yes, the benefits of going digital! Though even with film there's nothing (except cost, perhaps) against using a range of settings. And I find that the onboard monitors of digital cameras are generally not sufficient to fully judge the result and so end up taking shots with a range of settings anyway. I just don't have to print them all...
What surprises in this image is the sharpness of the leaves on either side and the softness of the leaves in the middle. This is a nice touch that might be emphasised with a slightly tighter crop, leaving these leaves along the diagonal and eliminating those at top right. I like the strong pink tones against the green.
John
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safak tortu
{K:2724} 4/19/2006
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So nice, so good...
Congrats....
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/19/2006
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You misunderstand, Bobot. I don't have a digital camera, only film. But this is one occasion when it WOULD have been nice to have one, because then I could have checked at once and tried again if necessary. As it was I had to wait until the film was developed! Maybe one day...
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1301307 60
{K:44058} 4/19/2006
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Beautiful color, I see no problem with it Roger, at this size I don't notice any shake.. The complimentary color really works well, the red stands out from the green background..
nice shot..
I think you have to change some information you gave since you said in your 'about' that you use a digital...
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 4/19/2006
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Bellas hojas , estupenda composición... muy buen contraste... Felicitaciones!
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