[Leica] Ted, May I beg to differ?

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Dec 11, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Phong wrote:
> Walt Johnson wrote:
>> Here  is a prime example of "eye contact" by  Jake Engel which speaks
>> quite well of  honesty. Hope he doesn't mind me illustrating a point
>> with it. Eye contact that seems to take us right to the heart and  
>> soul
>> of a subject. Absolutely beautiful and real.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/engelpaw2005/steph27
>
> This photo from Jake Engel is one of the best
> use of the 75mm Summilux I have ever seen, and
> it is a very difficult lens to use wide open
> effectively.
>
> Suumilux or not, it is just a great photo;
> at first, I thought I would prefer the far eye to also
> be focused, but on second viewing, I prefer
> it as is, as the just out-of-focus far eye
> gives the impression of implied motion of
> the woman just turning her head toward the viewer.
> This may or may not be Jake's intention at the
> moment of exposure.
>
> Just a superb portrait, reminiscent of
> Harry Callahan's Eleanor, just as riveting,
> though styliscally quite different, of course.
>
> Thanks Walt for posting the photo, as I didn't
> see it before.

here is a photo of a child I took last year using the S'lux 75mm 1.4  
wide open... I always liked the unusual look of this image, when I  
took it I commented that the child looked "carved out of marble" ...  
the child was sleeping, at that time. She recently died, I made a  
print of this for the parents...

http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-71354.html

Steve