Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A new image with my RF. (wk 20)
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:26:35 -0500

>>I agree with a couple others that this weeks picture could stand on its own
>>with no caption. The picture itself, for me, captures the isolation and
>>dependence that a child must feel. It tells a story, and I like that. Keep
>>it up.
>>
>>sl
> Most of my replies to postings of photos have been in a different vein
> than a criticism of composition, or exposure. I feel those things are
> pretty straight forward. Not easy to do always! But generally
> recognizable.
>
> What I do usually comment on is more in line with Steve's remarks above,
> the emotional content of the picture. Does it evoke a feeling? Raise a
> question? Provoke me to supply an answer to the question?
>
> These subjective things are important to a successful photo as much as
> the somewhat more objective mechanical things.
> Put it all together and you have something!
>
> Henry
>

BINGO!! Henry this is what I have been trying to do for years, once in a
while I succeed. You have summed it all up for me.

sl