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Subject: [Leica] Why we photograph, artists who photograph, and HCB -golden mean
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Apr 11 17:20:56 2006
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Show me! >:o

Jeffery Smith wrote:

>Perhaps because I've discovered the secret of his framing? ;-)
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>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D.
>Colen
>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:02 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Why we photograph, artists who photograph, and HCB
>-golden mean
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>Fascinating to see, Jeffery, but why do I think that HCB  is sitting his his
>studio in the sky, enjoying a snifter of heavenly cognac, laughing his ass
>off?
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>On 4/11/06 7:54 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
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>>Bob,
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>>In looking at many of HCB's photos in the documentary, I detected that 
>>HCB seemed to be looking for angles (one part of the documentary had 
>>HCB talking constantly of "geometry"). The placement of subjects 
>>seemed to be invariably on one side of an angle as I have collected 
>>here:
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>>http://www.400tx.com/HCB.html
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>>Even if these images aren't compellingly "golden mean" (I couldn't 
>>find little thumbnails of all of the examples they showed in the 
>>film), HCB almost never places his subjects in the center of the 
>>frame, and when he doesn't have an obvious diagonal, he often has a 
>>rule of thirds composition.
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>>Jeffery Smith
>>New Orleans, LA
>>http://www.400tx.com
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>>[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
>>bob palmieri
>>Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:49 PM
>>To: lug@leica-users.org
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Why we photograph, artists who photograph, and 
>>HCB
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>>Jeffrey & Tina -
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>>I know from the Golden Section, but I don't really understand how to 
>>use it in an organic way in snapping. Can you show me how it applies 
>>to, perhaps, some of HCB's pictures?
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>>Bob Palmieri
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