[Leica] Don't be shy: sink the boots ;-)

[afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)]

Thanks Henning: this is what I feared. I "wanted" the shot to be graphic and 
grabbing: its obviously not. I had thought it might be a bit messy and this 
seems to be the overwhelming opinion. I'll be "culling" it from my final web 
page of landscapes. Its funny, sometimes in "life" you know there "must" be 
a picture in this somehow but sometimes it just doesn't exist. Ok back to 
the drawing board erh lightroom ;-)

Cheers and Happy new year

Alastair

--- henningw@archiphoto.com wrote:

From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Don't be shy: sink the boots ;-)
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 21:23:13 -0800

>My landscapes have been getting a few nice comments, but this one did not:
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/2008/IceScape-5.jpg.html
>
>and I thought it might be a "dodgy" one, so please don't hold back. 
>Why doesn't it work? Is it just too messy and confusing? Sink the 
>boots, I'm planning to be more critical this year with my own and 
>others work, as I think we all learn more that way.
>
>Cheers and Happy new year
>
>Alastair
>




OK. Here goes.


It's too messy. There is no focus. Are we looking at the left side or 
the right? There is no 'larger' penguin to look at. Things are at an 
equal distance, equal brightness (flat) and the detail is also all 
about equal in value.

Now if you had a penguin, about half torso and head, looking onto the 
scene from the lower right hand corner, wringing his hands and 
moaning about government employees.....


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