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Subject: [Leica] watching...waiting/PICU alt
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:03:45 -0700
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> Ted, working on this and then hearing your comments, along with
those
> of Tina and Nathan,  was valuable ... I was too fixated on having
the
> Mother there, but I must agree, it just doesn't work...I will try it
> the other way, and possibly, post the result....

> thanks, Steve

alt/crop...

 http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-54555.html


> > Steve Barbour showed:
> > Subject: [Leica] watching...waiting
> > > fresh from the OR.... the long wait.
> > >> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-54546.html<<<<
> >
> > Hi Steve,
> > This may have been mentioned...
> >
> > The person on the right is a distraction. Actually it's the big
> Superman "S"
> > letter on her chest that catches the eye first, then you look at
the
> child
> > and doctor.
> >
> > The impact of the picture is lost because of the "S" person and
the
> gap
> > between her and the doctor. I'd have cropped into the left
shoulder
> of the
> > doctor to a point just re-moving the dark "hump" behind her
> shoulder, adding
> > a "slight" burning down of the child, left side of the frame top
to
> bottom,
> > and across the bottom holding the viewers eye right to the action,
> > doctor-patient.
> >
> > Once again you prove how important eyes are in people picture
> situations!
> >
> > We hear with our ears,  the doctor with the "stethoscope." But we
> listen
> > with our eyes!!! And that's exactly what this doctor is doing
......
> > "Listening with her eyes!"
> >
> > On occasion when shooting or cropping we tend to include "too
much"
> because
> > of what we "know," in this case the mother on the right waiting.
> However,
> > she doesn't matter in this picture because she's hanging off the
> side with a
> > big gap between her and the action.  Adding nothing to the impact
of
> the
> > "action" ...... which is really, doctor - patient.
> >
> > A good one never the less, all the cropping does is tighten it up
> slightly
> > improving what was there in the first place.
> >
> > ted

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