[Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Another 20 images

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Perhaps I haven't spent enough time with your images, but I don't recall too
many typical wide shots.  By that I mean having a significant something in
the foreground with reinforcing subject matter rapidly disapearing into the
background.  Take one of your house on car images, what would it look like
with a 21 or wider on top of the car/house with a debris field going as far
as the eye can see.  Similarly, with the barge that started it all, an
ultrawide shot of the gargantuan barge with the little bitty houses next to
it.  Possibly it might work better with a 500 to 600mm lens compressing
everything behind the barge to show the miles of destruction.

I am truly sorry to ramble, but your work is important, you have a great
start, but the scale of the story is huge and mind numbing.

Rambling some more, any people that could add some humanity that grounds
what this terrible event truly means.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 2/9/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> I've got 100 rolls of Tri-X and 100 rolls of Agfa 400. I'll keep plugging
> away at it. The one thing that won't happen is that I would run out of
> subject matter.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don
> Dory
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Another 20 images
>
>
> Jeffery,
> I think that you have not found a great theme yet.  Your photos are
> generally quite strong in documenting destruction.  There is a randomness
> to
> them that Slobodan mentions.  I think that for you, shoot a hell of lot
> more
> film, let your subconcious take control, but try to think about what is
> attracting you to a particular scene.  Only by knowing what is drawing you
> in can you concentrate on that aspect.
>
> For example you have a lot of crushed cars.  The wide establishing shots
> help to set the scene, but are there closer images that show the muck in
> the
> car, or the real damage to the car from the house, or just the idocy of a
> house sitting on a car that the wide shot does not cover/demonstrate.
>
> Or perhaps, with fifty plus contact sheets in front of you, you can start
> to
> edit down to a vision; or create a new shot list once you have a better
> idea
> of the whole.  The place is not going anywhere anytime soon.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 2/8/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > This is the last of the shots from the five rolls I scanned this week,
> > beginning at:
> >
> > http://www.400tx.com/9th-41.html
> >
> > Comments and suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> > http://www.400tx.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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