Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle - great advice and crit, most grateful for your insight ...... Hugh On 23-Sep-10, at 10:26 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: > The first one's the winner here, it's a good capture of the light & > I think shows you know what to look for in finding available light. > there's some good rule of thirds composition going on but on the > whole I think there's a lot of real-estate not put to the best use. > It's lacking a bit in context, though the scarf is good at placing > us. But the chair's uninspiring. (Your mileage will vary with this, > out there someone is going "Sweet Barking Cheese! They have a > Glidemaster Secretary 45 in Nue Black! with ripstop covering"). > When taking a photo ask yourself, consciously at first "what's the > subject of this photo? What elements are in this place that I can > get in the frame to help the subject of my photo and what ones that > aren't helping can I remove, through placement of my feet, angle of > my lens, lens I'm shooting with or other means at my disposal?" -- > eventually your subconscious will take this over and you'll frame > things a particular way but you won't know why. > In this your subject might just be the tea and the window light, or > it might be the tea and a person or the tea and a room -- that's up > to you. It may be the subject is "tea and office chair" -- but I > don't know that's very compelling. It might very well be "tea and > reflection in book-case glass" in which case, move in with your > feet, look at reflections, look at colors, paint with your frame. > > my .02 which is worth just about that -- hope this helps, "Keep cheerful and smile, sometimes it is all you have" hewthompson at mac.com Kabul, Afghanistan