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Subject: [Leica] Not my usual subjects - and in color
From: leica at dmason.net (Dave Mason)
Date: Tue Sep 19 13:29:29 2006
References: <C135BE02.15956%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

Sorry - I think my critique came off sounding harsher than it was
meant ;)

Dave

"B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> writes:

> Ouch! And actually most of it isn't reflection, but view through window and
> some sort of construction safety net/screening. :-)
>
>
> On 9/19/06 2:15 PM, "Dave Mason" <leica@dmason.net> wrote:
>
>> Interesting - on first glance the second one struck me more. I think
>> at some point I was photographing a reflection of a street in a window
>> and it occurred to me that I was being very cliche. Since that moment
>> I have tended to dismiss that kind of shot - totally my problem.
>> 
>> Still, there is something calming about the second image that I like.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Thanks, Adam - I, too, am more taken by the first one than the second, 
>>> but
>>> the sky doesn't bother me as it does you. But now that you mention it, I
>>> wonder...My monitor is reasonably bright, but what I find pulling my 
>>> eyes is
>>> the building on the right, with the early morning sun, and then I travel
>>> down to the couple - and the graphic (oh, those crazy Harvard kids. :-) )
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the thoughtful critique.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9/19/06 1:38 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks for sharing those images, B. D.
>>>> 
>>>> I very very much like the first image - I'm always attracted to
>>>> partial reflections and this composition is quite wonderful.
>>>> 
>>>> The 2nd image, however, doesn't work nearly as well for me. The sky is
>>>> just too bright - it dominates my attention so that the couple kissing
>>>> is not only secondary but hard to focus on. The tertiary graphic on
>>>> the far right would be wonderful, and should be, but the sky just
>>>> pulls - yanks - DEMANDS my attention and won't release it so I can
>>>> really see the rest of the image.
>>>> 
>> 
>>>> On 9/19/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
>>>>> These are "T" related but completely unrelated to my T project -
>>>>> 
>>>>> First two images under Personal Favorites on my website -
>>>>> 
>>>>>  http://www.bdcolenphoto.com
>>>>>  -
>> 
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