Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Adam - I, too, am more taken by the first one than the second, but the sky doesn't bother me as it does you. But now that you mention it, I wonder...My monitor is reasonably bright, but what I find pulling my eyes is the building on the right, with the early morning sun, and then I travel down to the couple - and the graphic (oh, those crazy Harvard kids. :-) ) Thanks for the thoughtful critique. B. D. On 9/19/06 1:38 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for sharing those images, B. D. > > I very very much like the first image - I'm always attracted to > partial reflections and this composition is quite wonderful. > > The 2nd image, however, doesn't work nearly as well for me. The sky is > just too bright - it dominates my attention so that the couple kissing > is not only secondary but hard to focus on. The tertiary graphic on > the far right would be wonderful, and should be, but the sky just > pulls - yanks - DEMANDS my attention and won't release it so I can > really see the rest of the image. > > As I write this I wonder if, as a print, my reaction might be totally > different from how I see it on the screen. Sometimes the positive > illumination from my display can make much more vivid those bright > elements which, on prints, are quite acceptable. > > Anyway, for this observer, the vast bright sky is too vast and too > bright so the vital parts of the image are hard to visit and sustain. > Others, perhaps less lazy, may react differently. > > I appreciate the opportunity to view these! > > Adam > > On 9/19/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: >> These are "T" related but completely unrelated to my T project - >> >> First two images under Personal Favorites on my website - >> >> http://www.bdcolenphoto.com >> - >> (I posted them there rather than Brian's gallery because for some reason I >> can't figure out how to get color settings right for posting there.) >> >> Comments, thoughts, criticisms, whatever.... >> >> B. D. >> >> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information