Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dante, Not sure whether critiques are solicited or desired in public or not, so here goes. First of all, nice light. Where were you? Could be any American city, I suppose, but for some reason reminds me of my neck of the woods -- San Fran. Anyway, I think this image could easily be improved in a few ways. You've got a nice subject -- the musicians are charismatic and plainly enjoying themselves. Your composition is a little loose, though. Getting in closer would help bring out their faces and reduce clutter around the margins of the image. As it is, we're looking at the musicians from the average distance of a passerby, and that makes it hard to tell their "story," if you get my gist. Remember Capa's order: if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not getting close enough! I might also play around with vertical angle (perhaps shoot from an even lower angle) and lateral angle, concentrating on an interesting juxtaposition of foreground and background. You've got great light and lots of interesting elements there, so the question was just getting it tight and making it unique. Last, check focus: maybe it's just the scan (it probably is), but the box in the far right foreground seems sharper than the subjects themselves. Nice effort and thanks for sharing! on 11/8/01 9:32 PM, dante@umich.edu at dante@umich.edu wrote: > > Greetings: > > http://www.dantestella.com/photo.html > (none of the internal links are set up yet) > > > 50/1.4 Nikkor LTM > > Dante > > -- > 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