Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ted, I will work on the burning ideas in the darkroom sometime. I find that a little burn can often dampen an area nicely. You are right about the arm: I did not notice it while shooting. Why can't these models behave themselves :-) thanks for the comments: its a long way to go to repeat the job, but I'd love to Cheers > Alastair showed: > Subject: Re: [Leica] Namche Market: focal zone > >>Here is one I was sure was going to be a winner: M6 with the 90 or 135, >>looking down on the market watching the guy in the foreground go through >>his sales pitch: the deal is almost done when I took this image: I >> focused >>on the "action", but the stupa in the background is therefore out of the >>range of the DOF. Being white big, does it draw the eye and destroy the >>image, ie is the out of focus part too dominant and distracting? > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/ >>album119/2004Nepal152.jpg.html> >>> >>> http://www.tiny.cc/USQHR > > G'day Alastair, > The eyes unfortunately distract more than they add, certainly as we see it > here! > > BUT! Right where your main subject stands bartering there's an arm lower > left corner with pointing finger sticking into the frame. Not something > you > might catch when shooting due to concentration on eyes and trying to get a > good depth of sharpness. > > It's a minor point, but once seen it becomes quite obvious sticking in.:-( > > I think a one stop smaller aperture might've made it work if it still > allowed a high enough shutter speed to avoid camera shake. > > Another thought.Try burning down the eye building to almost the head level > of the people, very subtly as you don't want to make it so obvious that > the > burn down becomes distracting. > > But what bugs me more than the eyes is the damn arm sticking in right at > the > crucial point of people action. :-( Try burning this down, if possible > without adding to the distraction. > > The overall scene is one that could be milked with a whole roll of film > watching for different moments in the foreground that work with the eyes. > But that's for the next trip as you don't want to use the whole potential > up > on the first go around! ;-) > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >