Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Isn't that what the LUG is all about?;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Bill Satterfield Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:48 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] WOW! Do you get a lecture on all posts? Pablo Kolodny wrote: >Tina Manley wrote: > >>I don't get it. The underwater ones are nice but most of the others look >>like snapshots. The ones on her website >>http://www.in-public.com/autiofolio.html all look underexposed and too >>contrasty. Can somebody explain why these photos are exceptional? >> >>Tina >> > > >Hi Tina, > >Sometimes some pictures don't need to be "well" color balanced, "well" >exposed, "well" composed. Sometimes some photos/photographers are awarded >for their images, sometimes for their own careers. >I think this set of pictures is quite good, I like the way she played colors >adding some extra "issue", I see she expresses herself that way rather the >"normal" or "traditional" one. >As photography is a medium it's fine we get how others "see" things despite >our personal tastes. > >What the hell that does have to do with Leica, our beloved Oskar or whatever >else I really can't get. But that's is OUR problem. > >Seeing pictures deliberately "badly" exposed, composed ... is something we >have to deal with if that is part of the purpose. And I do think this one is >the case. I like those pictures. > >You're asking for explanations, sometimes there's no such a thing but a >different looking we should have to learn to look at. Some others do express >other things. And maybe that's a way to go. > >Exceptional ? I see nothing so exceptional in there, but others decided it. > >Finally, what makes others decide those images are exceptional are persons >like us, but diverse. > >kind regards > >Pablo > >-- >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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html