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Subject: [Leica] payday...
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Tue Nov 8 15:50:21 2005
References: <CC574CE7-3287-4EB9-9B23-0BFAD5BBCE85@cox.net>

Steve Barbour showed:
Subject: payday...
>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-88691.html
>>>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-88692.html
>>>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-88693.html<<<

Hi Steve, some sober thoughts before the pre-dinner scotch! ;-)

1/ >>Pay day<<.
An excellent moment in capturing eyes and expression. And without question
it's her eyes that make it work.

2/ >> Stacked glasses.<<
This works because you have a great eye of recognizing light and making it
work in the scene.

Any number of people on the list miss the motivation of light, sometimes
obviously because of the angle they've shot from and what appears as though
they're standing and shooting from the wrong direction or angle to  the
light.

You on the other hand, I swear make a point of light use all the time. And
that's what sorts out most of your posted pictures... the light and how you
make use of it!

If you weren't aware of light and realizing how it was enhancing the stacked
glasses I doubt you'd have shot this simple situation.

I know it's an old line but I figure if I say it enough times sooner or
later everyone will get the message... "LIGHT-EYES-ACTION!" And "LIGHT" is
always first!

3/  >>Martini glass.<<
And "LIGHT" strikes again. I bet there's all kinds of people here who have
seen a glass sitting on a table like this and never related to it because
they don't see light photographically!

They see the object, but don't relate to the light making it a "photograph."
Man it's so simple, it just means learn to see light, be motivated by it,
what it's doing and can I make an interesting picture with it?

Can't get much simpler than that. But the important thing is for people to
learn to "see the LIGHT!" It creates a thousand visual motivations a day...
once a person learns to see it and recognize it's enhancing qualities.

By the same token, we can be motivated by light because it looks neat.

But that's all its doing, looking neat, not making a simple object look
beautiful . Think about this.. The right light and the photographer who
recognizes it and makes use of it, can make a $5 dollar object look breath
taking.

The photographer who can't recognize light if it were shining on him "will
make a multi-million dollar item look like $5 dollars!!"

Keep the light in mind and everyone will be a better photographer.

ted



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