Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scott; I meandered over your images. Frankly, I could only cringe the more I looked at them. You have got to work on your_composition_. You got the access, use it. You're doing a dis-service to the photographed by allowing them to interfere with your work. Sit down, and rethink your basic approach. Work on_your_visual syntax. If you don't, the essay won't hold up. Therefore, start at the most basic level, your_composition. Lastly, do something about your lighting. It just doesn't_read_what you want it to say. Look at it this way, in Chinese writing there are three styles, two need concern us here. The regular style, which is traditional and formal, and the "running style" which is looser and the lines appear free flowing. Both require an adherence to a syntax that the reader can easily grasp, hence getting to the message effortlessly and intuitively. In other words, regardless of presentation, they have an immediate clarity. You need to unburden the viewer with the wasted stroke that clouds your presentation. Virtually each image tells me of a missed visual opportunity. I shouldn't have to see that, as it bogs me down while viewing the moment's near misses. There are no short cuts to getting where you think you want to be. Bend, crawl, stoop, but do anything that it takes. As they say in Hollywood, "I'm right behind you." Slobodan Dimitrov Scott Squire wrote: > > Esteemed LUG, > > I wanted to let all of you know that the website is up for the Romanian > StreetKid Project. Click on over to > > http://www.scottsquire.net/index.html > Best > Scott Squire > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html