Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi my friend Geoff, Tomorrow I'l comment more in detail your interesting e-mail, now is very late and I have played to much with the M8. As you can I had an excellent Master, now one person has asked (I'm a neophit) how I do the conversion...., I should answered "as Master Hoppy tall me"! See you tomorrow, thanks, Lluis El 08/03/2009, a las 2:35, Geoff Hopkinson escribi?: > Lluis the first one does not quite work for me. I like the element > of the > Barcelona poster but I do not see any obvious action or expression > from the > young lady. I'm sure that she's pretty, but we have no expression or > anything to connect us with her. The exposure is fine of course. If > she was > holding up a camera for example I could see this one working well. > Right now > we only see a lamp post in front of her. > > In the second shot the lady with the sunglasses does grab the eye > but her > friend to her left is lost in the shadow. Not an easy exposure to > make of > course with the bright contrasty light. Maybe a vertical composition > would > have worked better, what do you think? I like her active pose and > she is an > interesting subject. The elements of the people behind her too would > add > more, if the lady on her right was not distracting me. > > I think the colour version has better elements to help it too. Her > headband > , tht hand bag and even the denim jeans make good colour accents. > Her brown > top is not ideal though. I know that you would not like to do it, but > changing the colour of her top in Photoshop could really lift the > colour > image. > My friend you are a much better street photographer than I am. These > comments are meant to be helpful for a discussion. I am sure that > other > people see these photos differently. > > 2009/3/8 Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll at telefonica.net> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1001000bw02.jpg.html >> http://tinyurl.com/d98qbv >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1001023-1bw.jpg.html >> http://tinyurl.com/csv9wz >> >> Both with Leica M8, Elmarit 28/2,8 ASPH >> >> Your c&c will be very appreciated, >> >> Of course I have all these in color first, IMO B&W is more "agresive" >> >> Thanks for looking >> >> Saludos cordiales >> Lluis >> >> -- >> Cheers >> Geoff >> 'Pick up your Leica and make the best photo you can' >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information