[Leica] IMG: This ain't no yellow brick road, laddie!

[amr3 at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)]

>Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006
>From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: This ain't no yellow brick road, laddie!

>Peter Klein offered:
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Nevada/11850008Irish-w.jpg.html>

>><http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Nevada/11850008Irish-Crop2-w.jpg.html
>>>
>Peter my friend,
>The operative word here is..... "Snapped "!!!!!! :-( a file13 compared to
>your regular photographs.
>
>We have all done this kind of quick re-action snap picture thing where no
>matter what we try to do with it after the fact it really and truly just
>doesn't work.:-( File 13 !
>
>It's a kind of "re-action to colour" more than content even though both are
>influencing your "seeing senses."  The colour grabbed your eye and
>"click!":-(
>
>Your #2 crop is better because it allows the viewer to see into the bar
>behind to the right, seems to make it balance slightly better. But even here
>the people walking on the left are so distracting due to the lighting they
>draw the eyes away from what should be two or one bright green person.
>
>On the left there are two men with a slight separation between, one white
>shirt, one plaid, if you crop right through there & get rid of everything to
>the left it helps because you get rid of the white eye catching shirt and
>the guys white hair!  Or burn it down to a less distracting level. Then the
>man walking toward you, dark shirt and glasses needs to be burnt down also.
>
>But honestly it's a hell of a lot work trying to make something out of a
>"grab shot" better left un-exposed as we see it here. Or at least as you
>presented, "it ain't no yellow brick road."
>
>If I were to have posted it I think I might have asked something like... "OK
>what are all the things wrong with this photo?" Or "What are all the things
>that could've been done to make it better?"
>
>Either of those questions I'm sure would've evoked a great deal of
>interesting descriptions. :-)
>
>A last minute thought... maybe in B&W it might have worked better because
>you relate to the shadows, "I really like the way the shadows point to the
>subjects in #1."
>
>No offence intended as you know.
>
>ted
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This is the kind of reponse that makes the LUG such a great site.  Thank
you Ted.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak
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