Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve LeHuray wrote: >>>something that is consistent in my photos is LACK of eye contact. I do not know if that is good or bad because I have always tried to avoid photos with people looking into camera, but maybe I will do some with eye contact and see how it works out.<<<< Hi Steve, Your wk 38 shot would've lost it's appeal if these guys were looking at you unless you were doing some kind of portrait thing with them. And if only one of them was looking at you the whole meaning of candidacy would be lost. And I bet you'd never have printed it. Eye contact is fine if there's a reason for eye contact, otherwise it appears as though the subject looking at you has just discovered you taking their picture and looking at you for no apparent reason. It works like this, well OK for me, eye contact for a reason, otherwise you're doing a street candid of life as it goes on and you're an invisible element of that and you don't want people aware of you because.... you are invisible! Right? It's a solid evening available light street scene and illustrates one more time, one doesn't require a twinkie light flash if you know how to use your equipment and understand film/development use! ;-) And have no fear of what you can see, you can shoot! Another good one Steve! ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - ----- Original Message ----- From: "" <icommag@toad.net> To: "Leica" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:34 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: wk38/sl > > Hi Steve, > > > > An image close to my heart...but there is something > > about it which does not seem right. I cannot pinpoint > > it exactly, maybe it is the lack of eye contact... > > Thanks Nathan--> > >I do > > think that if you had turned a tiny bit to the right, > > you would have had less dead space on the left and > > included more of the sidewalk café. > > Another good point--most of the time I tend to be thinking about the main > object in the photo and neglect the surrounding background. > > > Nice anyway! > > > > Nathan > > phew!! glad you did not notice the lens flare ;) > > sl > > > > > --- Steve LeHuray <icommag@toad.net> wrote: > Despite > > the recent 911 events, people around where I > >> live, have not gone > >> into hibernation on Friday/Saturday nights: > >> > >> http://www.streetphoto.net/paw38.html > >> > >> To see the complete PAW: > >> > >> http://www.streetphoto.net > >> > >> Comments always welcome. > >> > >> sl > >> -- > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html