Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This the first time I have weighed in with criticism of a Leica-User's photograph. It is only because I feel that you missed a stunning photograph by just a few feet. I apologise as I know all to well that hindsight is 20/20 and because I am not sure that I would not have seen it at the time either. The photograph in question is: http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/wk11a.html If you had framed it so that the elderly lady was not the horizontally central figure but the shuttered door/window was, it would be much more powerful and evocative photograph. I do not know how large the shuttered door/window is but if it could have been completely included it would have added a marvellous frame within the frame effect. The elderly lady then would have been positioned off to the left, walking slightly uphill, no longer really a part of the frame, and soon to be exiting. If I were you I would stake this place out until she comes back! Without her, there is no photograph. John Collier > From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net> > > A couple of random snaps from Greenwich Village: > > http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/wk11.html > > Comments welcome > > Gilbert >