Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Colin, I definitely like the 2nd shot of the bridge. Must be my love for formalisitic compositions :-) Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 9-mrt-06, om 16:18 heeft Colin J het volgende geschreven: > A big thank you to all who replied with comments, > both on and off the list. > > The picture I posted is one of a set of three > that I shot to a specific brief, which was to > portray an engineering structure in use by > people. I chose the Millennium Bridge as a > subject despite never having visited it before - > I live away from London and rarely get time to > visit. > > The bridge was in the news a lot because it was > an unusual design and had major problems with > wobbling when it first opened. But it was > modified and the wobble was completely cured. It > seems very stable. > > I had only half a day to visit London and shot > about twenty photos in an hour. I used the rest > of the film on the Tate Modern gallery and > visited an exhibition there. > > I have added two more bridge photos to the > gallery, so the first three shown are the three I > submitted against the brief. I have also added > some from the Tate Modern, taken with the C/V > 15mm lens. > > As before, I welcome all critique, good and bad, > as I need to learn. > > Colin > > >> Message: 17 >> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:26:04 -0500 >> From: "Richard S. Taylor" >> <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Millennium Bridge, London >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Message-ID: >> <p06230906c033fb3bc755@[131.142.12.152]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; >> format="flowed" >> >> Colin - Welcome and thanks for posting. It's >> always good to see new >> photos. I like the way you've arranged the >> very modern bridge to >> lead the eye into the venerable old dome of the >> cathedral. The >> people on the bridge are a plus, too. But, as >> Philippe commented, >> the buildings on the far side of the river are >> a bit distracting. A >> lower position might help separate the bridge >> from buildings more, >> though I expect you'd have to darken them some >> even then to minimize >> their effect. A walk around the area might >> give you a another >> position that helps, too, or an entirely >> different, even more >> interesting, combination of bridge and >> cathedral. > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all > new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >