Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/10

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Subject: [Leica] Portrait
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sun Sep 10 22:25:32 2006
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Ted, there sure must be more ways of lighting than Rembrandt's,  
mustn't there?
Although Rembrandt's is one of the more beautiful ones, and your  
credo helped me enormously in making better photos.
Philippe


Op 11-sep-06, om 00:53 heeft Ted Grant het volgende geschreven:

>> Philippe Orlent wrote:
>> It's a good portrait with the reflection of the hair in the  
>> mirror.  She's very serious, though. And a bit intriguing. Must be  
>> something  with her eyes.<<<
>
> Jim Hemenway agreed:
>> My thoughts run along the same lines as those of Philippe.<<
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Portrait<<<<<<<,,
>
> Guys I agree there's potential here, but you must be kidding that  
> the hair in the back ground mirror has anything to do with the  
> "FACE PORTRAIT!" Or am I looking at an entirely different photograph?
>
> It never caught my eye at all and is quite frankly meaningless in  
> this portrait because of the wonderful face, without question  
> "potential for beautiful Rembrandt lighting."
>
> As it is we have this wonderful face being "ordinarily lit" when  
> with a slight turn of the head to the subjects' right it could have  
> been a smashing beautiful portrait!
>
> Victor missed the high end potential of what it could've been and  
> ended up with a plain ordinary every day kind of photograph! And  
> you guys are talking about the bloody hair reflected in a back  
> ground mirror of no consequence?
>
> C'mon get real, this has great potential and Victor blew it! But I  
> will give him credit again for long lens use! Unfortunately the  
> most important part, "light and face" was missed! Period!
>
> ted
>
>
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Replies: Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Portrait)
In reply to: Message from vroger at gmail.com (Victor Rubin) ([Leica] Portrait)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] Portrait)
Message from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] Portrait)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Portrait)