Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think Sonny hit the nail on the head this time. Its very rare that a picture of somebody's back works. It always feels like you are missing something. The only time it really works is when you are trying to show the subject's relationship to something else. Shooting strangers from the front is hard. Some have a knack for it. Personally, I'm not comfortable doing that. Mike D Original Message: ----------------- From: Sonny Carter sonc.hegr at gmail.com Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:10:45 -0600 To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] The perfect Photographer On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: My reaction? I saw nothing more than a photographer on steps shooting into a crowd. Sure the butt end was the point of the photograph. I spent only fifteen years in TV news, and when I was doing it, it was never common in the South for photographers to tote ladders, maybe that's why I didn't get it, also, not seeing a camera on the "photographer" was another reason I didn't get it. If the butt end was the point, maybe Luis might just have come out and said that. I think, ( I really do, sometimes,) that the picture would have been far stronger if Luis had made like a planet and orbited clockwise to about a 7 o'clock position around the afore-mentioned body. Theni f he backed off, and panned left, he then would have shown the woman as photographer, her camera, her subject, as well as the object of your previously acclaimed affection. See how simple that was? -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web