Topic: New web gallery (Read 3647 times)

OnyimBob · « **on:** July 20, 2010, 07:36:11 pm »

Well, I've finally gotten around to a serious upgrade to my original web gallery www.bobmunro.com. I've used Livebooks because I liked the look and also for the ease with which images can be posted.
I'd appreciate any feedback about the site and or the images.
Bob.

RSL · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2010, 09:34:27 pm »

Bob, There's some stunning stuff on that site. I especially like your urban shots, though you have some of the best landscapes I've seen in a long time. #2 landscape especially is a remarkable piece of work. In my experience it's very, very difficult to capture the range of partially fog-shrouded reflections you've caught in this picture. But the urban shots top my list. #3 is exceptionally good surrealism, and #4 is in the same league. HCB would be proud of you.

Bravo!!

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2010, 11:53:06 pm »

Quote from: RSL

Bob, There's some stunning stuff on that site. I especially like your urban shots, though you have some of the best landscapes I've seen in a long time. #2 landscape especially is a remarkable piece of work. In my experience it's very, very difficult to capture the range of partially fog-shrouded reflections you've caught in this picture. But the urban shots top my list. #3 is exceptionally good surrealism, and #4 is in the same league. HCB would be proud of you.

Bravo!!

Bob,

You have some superb stuff and the site is clean and elegant. I mostly agree with Russ, except that it's the landscapes that really turn me on. Excellent work!

Eric

wolfnowl · « **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2010, 02:18:13 am »

Bob: The site is clean and well laid out, easy to understand and navigate. And some great work, too!

Mike.

fredjeang · « **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2010, 03:56:32 am »

I join the members comments posted so far. Specially like your (refreshing and singular) approach in the landscape works and seaside.

I have a question: some of your pictures are reminding me somewhere the special touch of the Foveon sensor.
Are you using a Sigma in some works? If not, it really looks like a Foveon is involved.

Great works.

OnyimBob · « **Reply #5 on:** July 21, 2010, 04:25:39 am »

Well thank you Fred, Mike, Russ & Eric!
Your compliments are humbly appreciated. I'm especially pleased that the site works for you.
Fred, I'm afraid there is no Foveon represented. The earlier works were done with a Nikon D70, the later with my Pentax K20, with one or two taken with my trusty pocket camera the Ricoh GX100. I would be interested to know which images suggested this to you Fred?
I have been using LR since the first beta and tend to develop each image according to what I see in it.
Cheers, Bob.

John R · « **Reply #6 on:** July 21, 2010, 09:04:22 am »

Quote from: OnyimBob

Well thank you Fred, Mike, Russ & Eric!
Your compliments are humbly appreciated. I'm especially pleased that the site works for you.
Fred, I'm afraid there is no Foveon represented. The earlier works were done with a Nikon D70, the later with my Pentax K20, with one or two taken with my trusty pocket camera the Ricoh GX100. I would be interested to know which images suggested this to you Fred?
I have been using LR since the first beta and tend to develop each image according to what I see in it.
Cheers, Bob.

Yes, I agree, there is generally fine work on your site, especially your outstanding moody landscapes.

I take it the Sigma has a Foveon sensor and you are now using a Pentax. I still use the K10D. The other day was the first time I encountered someone who had a Sigma camera in the field. Looked a lot like the Pentaxes. The owner was very happy with it. If you have the Sigma, may I ask does it have the Foveon sensor and how do you feel about its overall image quality.

JMR

fredjeang · « **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2010, 09:43:47 am »

Quote from: John R

Yes, I agree, there is generally fine work on your site, especially your outstanding moody landscapes.

I take it the Sigma has a Foveon sensor and you are now using a Pentax. I still use the K10D. The other day was the first time I encountered someone who had a Sigma camera in the field. Looked a lot like the Pentaxes. The owner was very happy with it. If you have the Sigma, may I ask does it have the Foveon sensor and how do you feel about its overall image quality.

JMR

I'm also a Pentax user for APS cameras. Yes, there are some similitudes.
Last day I was passing by my store in Madrid (fotocasion that Michael Reichmann knows) and they had this DP1 very very cheap. What impressed me was the size compared to micro4/3. The DP is pocketable indeed.
I have not shoot enough so far with it but I must say that the image quality is really beautifull, and the room in DR truly stands more in the MFD league.
Did some over-under exposed to try the post-prod and recuperation before image falls appart is really stratospherical to my surprised. I hardly take the dslr now.
No AA makes a difference as expected but honestly, I suspect more the exeptional integrated lens quality to be involved more than the Foveon "magic properties".

To give you an idea, IQ is superior to me (more refined) to the Pentax aps cameras with the very best Pentaxes primes. In other words, it just bloody works! (if you like manual operation)

I would have considered a Leica X1 but wanted a wider lens.
Find a DP, they are cheap enough now that there is no risk and the results are indeed impressive. Can't wait to print to have a better idea.

jasonrandolph · « **Reply #8 on:** July 21, 2010, 11:51:13 am »

I'll echo what everyone else has said. Stunning work in all three portfolios, and your website is very user-friendly. Well done.

Lisa Nikodym · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2010, 01:12:41 pm »

Wonderful, wonderful photos, Bob. Especially the landscapes; very moody! I saw several of your favorite river, the one you've posted photos of here in years past. Stunning!

Lisa

OnyimBob · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2010, 07:30:35 pm »

Quote from: John R

Yes, I agree, there is generally fine work on your site, especially your outstanding moody landscapes.

I take it the Sigma has a Foveon sensor and you are now using a Pentax. I still use the K10D. The other day was the first time I encountered someone who had a Sigma camera in the field. Looked a lot like the Pentaxes. The owner was very happy with it. If you have the Sigma, may I ask does it have the Foveon sensor and how do you feel about its overall image quality.

JMR

John, I've just realised you may have been asking me about the Sigma - I originally assumed you were responding to Fred. Indeed it was Fred who brought up the subject of the Foveon sensor - I have had no experience with them at all although they sound interesting.
I realised some time ago, after a long period of camera envy, that I really am more interested in making images and that the gear I have now is doing the job I want it to do. I tweak it now and again - with for example recently a set of ND filters that I'm experimenting with. I'm also checking out availability of TS lenses for the Pentax. I guess I'll probably fall victim to progress again eventually and upgrade but at the moment there's nothing on the market tempting me. The K20 really is a very competent, pleasing camera. The Ricoh is the perfect pocket camera for me with it's wide angle zoom and 10 mp sensor. I have 17 x 20 prints from it that are stunning.
Cheers, Bob

OnyimBob · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2010, 07:44:50 pm »

Jason & Lisa, thank you for your kind remarks. Yes Lisa, our river is one of my favourite places and has been a great inspiration for me over the years.
For a long time I regarded (and called) myself a landscape photographer, but as is obvious from my site I have in recent times begun to spend more time in the city. I actually live in a remote forest setting four hours drive from Melbourne, so in my defence the oportunity for urban photography was fairly limited until I retired two years ago from working for 35 years on a week on week off basis on offshore oil rigs.
I have found that I get almost as much satisfaction from the urban work as the landscape, though landscape is closer to my heart.
There are all the same elements involved - I tend to be an oportunist, rarely planning more than just deciding to go to x, y or z to see what's available, and of course time of day is nearly always a factor for landscape - basically just looking at every thing with "new eyes" and being constantly and pleasantly surprised.
To be honest, it's just good fun, the whole business and I love being "pleasantly surprised" by my work and everyone else's.
Cheers, Bob.

EduPerez · « **Reply #12 on:** July 28, 2010, 02:09:36 am »

Wonderful photographs; and the site is excellent, too: clean, nice, and easy to navigate.

AWeil · « **Reply #13 on:** August 02, 2010, 05:46:27 pm »

Hi Bob, highest marks for your new web-site design! The images are stunning - the river (all of them) and then the forest after the fire (No. 5 and No. 6). One of my new favorites is Urban No. 3 - a complex composition with amazing colors, shapes and structures.

Best
Angela

OnyimBob · « **Reply #14 on:** August 02, 2010, 10:28:24 pm »

Quote from: AWeil

Hi Bob, highest marks for your new web-site design! The images are stunning - the river (all of them) and then the forest after the fire (No. 5 and No. 6). One of my new favorites is Urban No. 3 - a complex composition with amazing colors, shapes and structures.

Best
Angela

Lovely to hear from you again Angela! Coming from you this is high praise indeed! Thank you very much.
Catch up with you later.
Bob.

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