[Leica] Re: Landscapes

[Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>]

John, I like what you are aiming for, but I don't think you have 
achieved it yet. Your focus seems helter-skelter. In large part, Jeff's 
problem with too much stimuli had to do with his use of color. B&W 
imposes its own limitations. Every one of your images (with the 
exception of the first, which I don't think is well composed) would be 
improved with lens to horizon focus. There is no good reason that a full 
1/4 of the last image is an out of focus tree trunk.  The path leads the 
eye, and the out of focus tree merely holds the eye on an uninteresting 
object for a moment too long. You have quite nicely sheared the images 
of unneeded   subject matter, and you have good lines leading the eye. 
Put everything (or most) in focus.

I certainly hope you will post more stuff; there are a lot of good 
things going on in the images.

Allan


On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 07:57 PM, John Amiet wrote:

>  theorized that tele lens' would help with selective focus, thus 
> concentrating on one
> particular aspect of the scene.
> Following is my first foray into the problem.
> This pic is looking along my regular walking track on the clifftop at 
> the beach.
> http://www.showplace.com.au/PH14293_6.jpg
> This is the same part of the track looking the opposite way.
> http://www.showplace.com.au/PH14293_8.jpg
> This image I find reminiscent of Eugene Smith's famous pic of the two 
> young children walking through the
> bush - minus the children.
> I must try doing something like that!
> http://www.showplace.com.au/PH14294_11.jpg
> This image is part of a semi-hidden track connecting the beach and 
> clifftop track. Very jungle-like
> environment, yet not 50metres away is a main highway.
> http://www.showplace.com.au/PH14294_7.jpg
>
> If people are interested, I will share more exciting (to me anyway) 
> pictures of my world in the near future.

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