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

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

I might have been sorely tempted to replace the red with green as well
Cheers
Hoppy

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

I think this is what you should have done:

<www.fullflavor.be/IrishOrig_x.jpg>



Op 6-dec-06, om 03:00 heeft Klein, Peter A het volgende geschreven:

> Ted, points well taken.  And in that spirit, let me present a few
> alternate versions, "special for you."  You may be right that #2 is
> better, but I like the way the shadows lead to the subjects in #1,  
> so I
> used it for illustrations.
>
> Here's what the camera saw:
> <http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/IrishOrig.jpg>
>
> Here's what I thought I saw:
> <http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/IrishGradient.jpg>
>
> Here's what Ted thinks I saw:   :-)
> <http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/IrishDesat.jpg>
>
> Here's a "Wizard of Oz" approach to emphasizing the subjects:
> <http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/IrishDesat2.jpg>
>
> And here's a B&W with the digital equivalent of burning in the street:
> <http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/IrishBWGrad.jpg>
>
> These are the result of quick and dirty edits, most of them violate  
> the
> Nathan Wajsman Ethical Guidelines for Image Editing (which I normally
> adhere to), and all would probably get me fired from the Charlotte
> Observer, if I worked there, which I don't.  And it was fun. . .
>
> Now, do any of these work?  And then, I'll get back to some probably
> better images.
>
> --Peter
>
>
>> 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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