Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 12, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Ted Grant wrote: > Steve Barbour offered: > Subject: Re: [Leica] mother... >>>> but with the faces turned away it rather weakens the photo by >>>> >> conventional standards... yet strengthens it at the same time...<<< >> > > Hi Steve, > Not at all!, screw the conventional standard because in many cases > it's constantly following the herd of sheep with everything looking > the same by the rules. > > This photograph "exudes feeling" and the faces are there > sufficiently to see. But the most important thing about this > captured moment is the feeling! It's always about feeling in how > viewers re-act. > > Aren't the dead humans in Iraq all about feelings when we look at > them? Hell they're all conventional, but it's the feelings they > create that make the photographs work! > > In my opinion your photograph has so much feeling for it and that's > what makes it work so beautifully! It allows us to read into it the > quietness of the moment. > ted I almost did not post it because of the faces turned away...but it had something special, I thought, different ....due to that..... some very fine photographers have suggested that flaw seriously weakens the image... I too feared that was the case... so valid opinion is well divided...rightfully... is this a case where "screw the rules" , ...opinion will be divided, justifiably so...? thanks, Steve