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Subject: [Leica] [IMG] PAW 17 - Arms and Legs
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Tue Aug 28 03:22:14 2007
References: <46CD72C3.1050609@summaventures.com><20070823120323.A63962FBA1@donald.hostspirit.ch> <46CDBFA5.2000909@summaventures.com> <000101c7e5da$3ca954f0$6501a8c0@asus930>

thanks Hoppy, I'll have a try at that; I do have a much lighter scan, but I
discarded it as I didn't think that it worked.

Thanks for looking,

Peter

G Hopkinson wrote:
> Peter, it is clever seeing and worthy of showing, I think. I can follow 
> Didier's ideas there but also your reasoning with the
> inclusion of the people to the right. It is always possible to do things 
> differently, especially in retrospect. But those different
> ideas are where we learn a lot, don't we? (Well I do, anyway, even when I 
> don't necessarily share the same viewpoints).
> Things I might try now if I had taken this one:
> Some dodging of the left and perhaps a little global lightening to reveal 
> a little more detail. The bags are a near black area to me
> too. I can make out what they are.
> Maybe rotate for a vertical wall line to the right of bins?
> Make it grittier with over-sharpening. There are a lot of angles and bleak 
> details in your subject.
> 
> Just some thoughts for discussion.
> 
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Leica] [IMG] PAW 17 - Arms and Legs
> 
> Hi Didier,
> 
> I wanted to (a) show that this "gruesome" sight was in full view of the 
> general
> public ;-) and (b) get some light into the picture, because the bins were  
> in a
> tunnel entrance. In the lower left hand corner you should be able to see a 
> pile
> of black plastic bags. If not you **may ** need to look at your monitor's
> calibration.
> 
> I am not desperately happy with it, but I thought it was funny enough to 
> post to
> amuse LUGers.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for looking.
> 
> Peter
> 
> Didier Ludwig wrote:
>> Hi Peter
>>
>> I find the subject "commercial waste with arms and legs" very attractive. 
>> From the photographing point of view I have two
> criticisms:
>> - the framing seems not optimal for to me. The background behind the 
>> right edge is a bit disturbing, does not add anything to the
> composition but probably influenced the exposure negatively 8see point 2). 
> I could imagine that a frontal and rectangulous, more
> graphic composition might have transported the subject better - just bins 
> and lamps, horizontally and parallelly aligned.
>> - The lower midtones seem a bit too dark on my standard non calibrated 
>> LCD monitor. I can almost not differ what's in the corner
> at the bottom left.
>> Just my 2 pesos. Thx for sharing
>> Didier
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>> It's strange the things you find in a trash bin...
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PAW+2007/Arm_amp_Legs-1.jpg.html
>>> Leica M3 5cm Summicron, BW400CN.
>>> Your comments and constructive criticisms are as always welcome,
>>> Thanks for taking the time to look.
>>> Peter Dzwig
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] [IMG] PAW 17 - Arms and Legs)
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Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] [IMG] PAW 17 - Arms and Legs)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] [IMG] PAW 17 - Arms and Legs)