Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/27

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Subject: [Leica] the operating room...
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Aug 27 16:58:44 2006
References: <122DDBED-64EC-45A1-84B2-3C954C33CCCD@cox.net> <001901c6ca2c$34f2d8a0$a302a8c0@ted>

On Aug 27, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Steve Barbour showed & asked:
> Subject: [Leica] the operating room...
>> images from the operating room...
>>
>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95638.html
>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95639.html<<<
>
> Steve you know how hard this is for me to answer, but here goes for  
> both photographs. :-)


I bow my head and stand ready...

>
>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95638.html<<<
>
> I think you should've tried for the "eyes" and forget the hand  
> coming across with the instrument out of focus.

I wanted the eyes, but also the action hand in  .... got the  
eyes ...well almost... I suspect the mask is a problem here...


> Although?
>
> The better would've been to have the hand in focus as it's closer  
> to the camera and let the scrub nurse go soft in the back ground.  
> Unless you had an absolute clean shot at her eyes! Certainly not an  
> easier shot to say the least.
>
> But she would've reached through the camera area several times and  
> all you had to do was concentrate on the hand and shoot several  
> until you had it right.
>
> Look in my book I know you have,  "This is Our Work" plate 53 where  
> I shot at least a dozen frames as I tried to get the hand of the  
> surgeon as it passed between the OR light and my camera.
>
> Or for those of you with "Doctor's Work." it's page 169.
>
> This kind of picture is like shooting sports because it happens  
> over and over, so you go for the action of the hand until you feel  
> you have it right on the mark.
>
>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95639.html<<<
>
> This is a tough call when you compare some of the hand pictures in  
> "This is Our Work" and "Doctors Work."
>
> What I'm visually fighting here is the sharpness of the hand  
> closest to you and the "brighter" slightly out of focus bkgd hand.  
> I might have tried burning in the back ground hand. And that might  
> yet be the easiest.

I couldn't  have gotten such advice from anyone better or more  
accomplished....

much appreciated,

thank you Ted...


Steve

>
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