T400CN, short telephoto

-- Chuck Greene (chuck.greene@ericsson.com), July 16, 2001

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I hope this works time. Please forgive my HTML illiteracy.

-- Chuck Greene (chuck.greene@ericsson.com), July 16, 2001.

Here ya go....

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), July 16, 2001.

Except for that damn end center tag....

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), July 16, 2001.

Thanks Jeff.

-- Chuck Greene (chuck.greene@ericsson.com), July 16, 2001.

I like this picture. It is altogether weird and cute at once. seeing the out-of-focus face of a woman in the cat door evokes a sense of weirdness. The baby, looking like it has no idea what to make of the situation, makes it look even more weird!

I think maybe the weirdness of it is what I like.

-- edward kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), July 19, 2001.

Interesting, I hadn't thought of this photograph as weird, I suppose my emotional attachment to the subjects has something to due with that. The baby is my son and the woman is my wife Cat, who is looking through the gate on our deck (a hinge is visible in the lower left corner).

When I first looked at this photograph I liked it: our cute baby in focus and my smiling wife out of focus in the background. After viewing it repeatedly I realized you can't tell for sure if the woman is smiling or grimacing, because she is so out of focus, I knew she was smiling at the time because I was there and I was applying that memory to the photograph the first few times I viewed it.

Thanks for the feedback Edward!

I'm trying to think a bit more objectively about Jack's expression, but it may take a few days...

-- Chuck Greene (chuck.greene@ericsson.com), July 24, 2001.

I like it a lot. You might try burning in the gate-hinge in the lower left of the photograph. It pulls my attention just a bit.

-- David Cunningham (dcunningham@attglobal.net), July 25, 2001.

Try the preview facility described at http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002lhb for sorting out those links. The trick, btw., is to use the URL to the JPEG image, not the URL of the HTML page itself.

(Sorry I have been away for a week or two, been busy deleting spam postings this evening :-))

I really like your composition. The depth of field is just about perfect, giving enough detail in the mother's (?) face while still retaining a clear feeling of depth in the image. I only wish there was a little more detail in the surroundings. But it is lovely.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), July 30, 2001.