[Leica] IMG: for Walt

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

Phillipe,

I assumed you had Baudelaire in mind when you named your picture.   Les 
Aveugles is a famous poem from Les Fleurs du Mal.   But you didn't?   The 
painting is Renoir's Alphonsine 
http://www.repropaint.com/Images/Main/renoir.jpg
So I'm still a bit confused about who you are ascribing the blindness to.

Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>
To: "LUG Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 6:58 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: for Walt


<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/phorlent/F1000033_001.JPG.html>

Comments appreciated and
thanks fors looking,
Philippe



P.S.:
1) indeed, Hoppy, these are low res Fuji Frontier scans and they
produce horrible grain aliasing. I get most noise out with NeatImage
+ Smart Sharpen, but they still suck.
I just don't have the time to scan them myself. That Minolta I have
is a great 35mm scanner, but it stands there, unused most of the time.

2) About the bottom left hand in 'Les Aveugles': I didn't see it when
I made the shot. I noticed it on the scan, but for me, it did not
distract enough to clone out. One looks to the lighter top zone of
the image anyway: light attracts.
Second reason why I left it in, is because it's the hand of a 4th
person, even if at first sight it might look as the right hand from
the girl. Just the kind of enigmatic detail that I like and that, if
it gets noticed, might add to the viewing experience.

3)  'Les Aveugles' is indeed an hommage to the painting. The
combination of the title and the image itself convey what I wanted to
express with it, although 'les Jalouses' (as suggested by Philippe
Amard's wife) would have been a great title, too

4) It is also somewhat constructed, and as Ted intelligently noticed
with all his shooting experience: shot in a corner. If you're a slow
focuser -as I am- you learn to look for advantageous spots where an
intresting image (with some interaction) might produce itself. Most
of the interesting situations that I see are missed because of this
'slowfo'.

5) Thank you for the beautiful poem, Robert.

6) About 'Face ? Face': thank you for the positive comments. I had to
crop part of the scan. It seems like I often make the same mistake:
the final image is always wider than the one seen through the VF. The
wider the lens, the more: I made a lot of 15mm shots, but few remain.
Proof that it needs a lot of practising, as some have mentioned before.
I chose not to B&W it, because I loved the combination of the blue
and the greenish grey in the reflection of the slightly frozen water
surface.
Kept my feet dry, though Geoff ;-)

7) About 'Framed': thanks also for the positive comments. Michiel
gave a wonderful interpretation to it: it's about the entrapment of
the couple.
Which for me is proof enough to conclude that it works. :-)




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