Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair wrote: "The 90 has isolated the child, but the images are not strong enough to hold such individual attention. I want to know where and why she is there, as the portrait quality is, (for me) not strong enough. Also the colours on my screen are unpleasant, and the sunlit backgrounds are too strong. Some seem to have flare. Being negative about submissions is always hard, but I don't like this series. I think you would have been better off with b/w in these lighting conditions, when you were concentrating on the subject; wonderful subject, with lots of potential by the way, or colour but with the subject in the sun, interacting more with her surrounds, with a wider lens to give a sense of place." Cheers - - -- Alastair Firkin" Thank you, Alastair, for your perceptive comments. I consider these pictures to be merely grab shots, done with what I had to hand and where and how I found the subject. Following your suggestion regarding b&w I experimented with desaturating the images in PS; IMO the results were disappointing. Thanks again; critiques make me look at images differently. Oliver Bryk - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html