Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]robertmeier@usjet.net wrote & showed: >>> Subject: [Leica] Re:My First PAW > I would appreciate any comments: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=799370 G'day Robert, Given the exposure and aperture selection look OK, the composition is well executed, strong foreground use of the of lettering.......... Other than the one error, the camera isn't held straight!!!!! :-( Yep and I'm already prepared for possibly you or others to come back telling me it's an "art photo" so therefore it's OK to hold the camera the way it is here. Nope! And if you did hold the camera in this fashion to create an art form it isn't well executed either. It's still just crooked. There is a major difference between "creating art and poor camera handling." In art, the camera would more than likely be on a much wilder angle and probably shot with a wider angle lens to create the max effect of distortion. In this case if it's art, it's by accident of holding the camera upper left corner down to the left slightly and forward slightly. The result we see here is probably because of your concentration on getting the lettering right and not having a peek at the corners of the viewfinder to keep the camera squared away. Making max use of the minor distortion created by a 50mm lens held in this fashion compared to say 35, 28, 21, 15 or 12. You're on the right track OK, tilting downward for distortion effect, but the bottom edge of the viewfinder should be straight across inline with the concrete pad separating line as a guide to keeping squared away. If you go by this again I bet if you re-shoot it with camera squared off and tilted down a slight bit more you'll increase the impact of the picture by strengthening the letters even more so. Hopefully you'll not be one of the people who ask for comments and then become all ass twitchy because someone actually makes a constructive comment. I also realize you may completely disagree with me and that's cool, because that's life and we all see differently. So in that case please accept mine as merely a different opinion. Thank you. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html