Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe - I had the same thought about printing them. They need to be seen large and viewed close to feel the full impact. I don't have a printer capable of big prints yet so maybe I'll take a couple to my local printer and see what they look like at 12 x 18 or thereabouts. I left them all in color because Times Square seems to demand it. As an example, in "MI3/Alone" my eye was caught by the red sign, the red jackets on the woman closest to the camera and the man to the left. The sun was so intense and the shadows so deep that I reduced the contrast a bit on all of them before posting. The face of the woman in "MI3/Alone" was completely lost before adjustment but, still, since you noticed it, maybe a bit less correction is called for. Thanks for commenting. Dick >It's very hard to photograph groups of people in a cityscape with a >wide IMO. One always tends to look for an interaction between those >people, as if they act all together in a big play. >Having said this, I like 'MI3/Alone' a lot. Maybe because of the >fact only a few people are on it, and the lens distortion really >adds to this photograph. >I'm not sure. Maybe a bit more contrast would help, too. Or B&W, >with dodging and burning, to isolate one subject or part of the >image a bit more and thus 'guide the eye'. Or maybe they just need >being printed in big, to get immerged in the picture more. >One thing is for sure though: you didn't make it easy on yourself, >and that alone is worth to be praised. >Thanks for showing, >Philippe > > >Op 30-mei-06, om 23:08 heeft Richard S. Taylor het volgende geschreven: > >>Wide angle lenses are cool (showing my age there). These were all >>taken with a 15mm Heliar on an M7. I like dramatic imagery of the >>15 and the way it can isolate people in even a crowded area like >>Times Square. Even better, people just two feet away will look at >>you with your camera to your eye and decide you couldn't possibly >>be taking their picture. >> >>All but two of these are full frame. Two have been cropped to what >>I guess must be about 21mm focal length. In some I've gone for an >>"all-alone-in-the-big-city" look, in another I was after a crowded >>look, in another I was just reporting what I saw. >> >>Love 'em or hate 'em, here they are. Comments encouraged. Thanks. >> >>Tourists 1 >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/1_25A_0083_web >> >>Tourists 2 >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/2_12A_0145_web >> >>Tourists 2 alternate >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/2_14A_0147_web >> >>Running Boy >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_01A_0020_web >> >>Wedding Party ( and don't they look young ;-) ) >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_15A_0034_web >> >>Kodak/Alone >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_28A_0047_web >> >>MI3/Alone >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/1_14A_0072_web >> >>Deep in the Crowd >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_34A_0053_web >>-- >>Regards, >> >>Dick >>Boston MA >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information