[Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 36, Issue 527

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

Ric and Mark: Agreed on the need to crop.  Can't quite decide what's best.

Here's one with a bit of context remaining.  I didn't dodge the girl's face 
in this one.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitateBW2-w.jpg.html>
And here's a *really* drastic crop:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231bwCrop3-w.jpg.html>

Intermediate crops seemed too long and skinny

Whatcha think?

--Peter

At 01:41 PM 4/7/2008 -0700, Ric Carter wrote:
>I think you should keep it, but give it a severe crop to get rid of
>the extraneous playground equipment.
>
>a commentary on the whole birth anxiety thing.
>
>I like the black and white version.

And Mark Rabiner wrote:
>I'm glad you did it in monochrome as that purple is really something else.
>I'd keep the little girl dark!
>
>
>I can tell you if you did that monochrome conversion in PS3 you'd really be
>able to go to town with it!

>On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
> > This was a strange one.  Sometimes you don't know what you're going
> > to get.  During our walk Sunday, we went past a playground. On the
> > slide, I saw a tiny leg peeking out into the sunlight, hesitating.
> > I thought it was cute, I just raised my camera focused and shot.
> >
> > I was wearing sunglasses, so I didn't see into the shadows.  Later I
> > discovered I'd captured the image of a little girl who was very
> > afraid of what she was about to do.
> > 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitate-w.jpg.html
> >
> > It's even more disturbing in black-and-white.
> > 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitateBW-w.jpg.html
> >
> > There's something kind of Diane Arbus-ish about this one.  The
> > emotion is real, but I'm not sure if I want to keep this one up.
> > What do you think?
> >
> > M8, 50 Summicron. B&W version with a purple-blue digital filter to
> > lighten the slide somewhat.
> >
> > --Peter