Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: B.D.-esque Public Transportation shot
From: azn at nemeng.com (Andrew Nemeth)
Date: Tue Jun 21 15:30:45 2005
References: <200506211926.j5LJMKT4091371@server1.waverley.reid.org>

On 22/06/2005, at 5:26 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> I want to be like B.D. so I took my leica on the streetcar in New
> Orleans when I was down there a couple weeks ago. Here is my attempt:
>
> http://dmason.net/tmp/streetcar.jpg
>
> comments and insults welcome
>

Okay, you asked for it...  :?)

You really need to get a clue about JPEG image compression.  340 kb for 
an online snap is @ 4x larger than it needs to be.  Hint - Photoshop, 
save for web, use the % quality slider, and be amazed at how you can 
get a similar quality image for @ 80 kb.

Secondly, touch up the dust spots and lighten the shadow on the side of 
the person's face.  Burn & dodge, remember?...

Thirdly, composition?  You put the face right in the exact centre of 
the frame.  Come on, fumbling AF newbies do that sort of thing.

Next - what's the story about using grainy B&W?  Defiantly stuck in 
1973?...

Finally - who is "B.D." and why do you want to be like him?  Isn't he 
the bloke who insists on posting five times every LUG digest?...  :?)

(Some of this post is serious, some tongue-in-cheek.  I'll leave it as 
an exercise for the reader to figure out which is which.)


Regds,


Andrew N.
<http://leica.nemeng.com>


Replies: Reply from bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Re: B.D.-esque Public Transportation shot)
Reply from masonster at gmail.com (David Mason) ([Leica] Re: B.D.-esque Public Transportation shot)