[LRflex] Re: IMG: Sunday walk in BW.
- From: Andy Wagner <yxandy2001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:33:17 -0700 (PDT)
Dr Ted
Now that you've done the proverbial ripping of a new "one" to Phillipe :-)
allow
me this comment. Comments like yours are more of what some of us are looking
for. You're not the Monday morning Qback instead you are a welcomed and
educated
wise voice that we can all learn from. Critiques from you are most welcomed by
us. I've learned more from your critiques than I have in thousands of pages of
books and mags
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Regards
YXAndy
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From: "tedgrant@xxxxxxx" <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 7:09:02 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: IMG: Sunday walk in BW.
philippe.amard showed:
Subject: [LRflex] IMG: Sunday walk in BW.
> Quite hazy due to heavy rains on Saturday.
> I could have done with an S2 once more I guess.
> Anybodies got one too manies?
Philippe mon ami,
All are very interesting as beautiful B&W photographs can be.
HOWEVER? Don't you hate it when I say that? ;-)
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Switzerland/Premier+de+Cordee-1010609-2.jpg.html
>l
I like this. But if you crop the foreground off up to and including the
little clump of white stones, approximately 2"? off the bottom it seems to
create a better balanced feeling. The foreground isn't as eye dominant
allowing our eyes to see deeper into the photograph and the walking man and
an over all nice feeling.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/231472-1/Premier+de+Cordee-1010615.jpg
Again this is interesting even though we sort of see horses, we don't see
their heads! Half bodies because they're all head down eating therefore
their bodies are cut off and headless. I'm sure this would've been a much
better picture if their heads were up.
"HOW DO YOU GET THE HEADS UP EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE EATING?" You whistle as
loud as you can! Do that and the heads will pop up maybe looking in your
diection, maybe not. But at least you'd have a full animal than cut in half
.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/231476-1/Premier+de+Cordee-1010614.jpg
Gorgeous! A beauty for the cabin wall about 30X40 inches framed in a dark
wood frame. It's what we call a "WOW!" picture and you hang on it looking at
all the little bits and pieces all over, clouds, rocks, mountain edges,
whatever. This is a picture that screams out to be shown as big as possible
simply because of the content! "BIG SCENE NEEDS VERY BIG PRINT SIZE!" It's
sort of, you can't see it big enough. :-)
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/231480-1/Premier+de+Cordee-1010582.jpg
Then we come to this absolutely magnificent photograph! If the previous one
"1010614" was a WOW? This is a triple WOW SUPER FANTASTIC WOWWIE!" So OK
now that I've built it up so much how can I possibly say anything negative?
Dang but here it is and as soon as you look at the photo you'll say... "
Damn why didn't I wait one minute?"
Look at the people, the first person is standing clean against the black ,
look at the glow separating her almost off the page! Yep the others sort of
stand out, however not as clean as the first girl. The last two,
particularly the second last person with the highlighted hill edge cutting
through his body! See that one little thing? DAMN! spoils the super wowie
effect. :-(
Yep it's still a beautiful photograph but it only get's 2 silver stars
instead of the SUPER GOLD RING! And all because you didn't wait maybe only
30 seconds for the last two people to move so slightly up the path into that
clean black background.
Yeah I know some folks are going to say "well you're second guessing the
team leader on Monday morning and easy for me to do" Yep, but that's life,
get over it! Do you know what? That's what makes a photographer sharper and
look harder at the next scene he's shooting just for those tiny little
things he missed before. It's called "Tough Love!"
cheers,
Dr. ted
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