Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Graham, bland is a very loaded word, and not perhaps what I should have used, forgive me. I wouldn't have posted anything about them if I didn't like them a lot. Let me put it like this: the pictures are sort of emotionally neutral, or detached. I feel that landscape is a genre which requires an emotional input of some sort, and that is what I was missing. That can take the form of weather, lighting, or many other more or less clichéd tricks - like heavy burning in. I feel your pictures were missing this dimension, although they are very successful formally. But of course, they're _your_ pictures, after all! Anyway, please don't think I was putting your pictures down, OK. Landscape is very difficult and not something I've ever been able to do well - which is why all my pictures are of people. R. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Where I live, how I live > Hi Rob, > Thanks for checking out my pics. It's tempting to say I was in pursuit of > bland and to claim that I successfully achieved my goal but I can't imagine > anyone deliberately setting bland as a standard to attain. Not in my > understanding of the word bland anyway. I know from your photographs and > posts to the LUG that you are a person who obviously knows what you are > talking about. To be found bland by someone I respect is obviously > disappointing for me but I do not know how to inject the ingredients that > you find lacking. The difference between professional and amateur I guess. > I'll keep trying and thanks for looking. > --Graham > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: 28 August 2002 09:52 > Subject: Re: [Leica] Where I live, how I live > > > > Hi Graham, I've just been looking over your landscapes. Very nice > > photographs. But... ;-) I sense a lack - a lack of mood or intention. > > Usually I'm not very for the photographer intruding into the picture too > > much, but I think landscape is a genre which does require the photographer > > to make a statement about the countryside (in this case). I wonder whether > > this is a choice on your part, to present these pictures (which are > > compositionally very well realised) so blandly? > > R. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com> > > To: "LUG" <Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:07 AM > > Subject: [Leica] Where I live, how I live > > > > > > > Without the LUG fuelled drive to get the next photograph I would not > have > > > purchased 'Village Walks in Northamptonshire' and most of the places on > my > > > site would have remained unknown to me. So the Lug in encouraging me to > > > shoot PAWs where I live has inadvertently changed how I live. That will > be > > > viewed by some as a saccharine comment but true nonetheless. > > > > > > http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/gal4_10.html > > > > > > Graham > > > http://geebeephoto.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html