Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/12

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Subject: [Leica] 7 year old emotional blast (PAW)
From: faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)
Date: Wed Dec 12 14:56:00 2007
References: <BAB56A0C-60A4-40FE-8A95-955DC47E8F1E@pandora.be> <0JSY00LHXKXLCV30@l-daemon>

No! While an accident (yes) I love it the it way it is.
Focus ain't everything!

Eric

On Dec 12, 2007 5:53 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Eric Korenman
>
> > After years of photographing my son,
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> > this recent photo (age 7 1/2) really
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> > knocked me over:
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> > http://tinyurl.com/33gr9j
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> > My son was goofing around - but I think it shows what is to
> come..Blurred?
> Sure. But I think it adds to the the punch of the image.
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> >
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> > We've had the photo tacked to the wall for weeks.<<<<<<
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> Eric mon ami,
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> Given I've 4 children and 10 grand children let me say. It's out of focus
> and regardless of how much you love him, 40 years from now it'll still be
> out of focus!
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> If I presented an out of focus shot such as this of our children or grand
> kids to my wife of 58 years who originally started me into photography,
> she's toughest photo editor in the world. She'd have me committed
> regardless
> of what I may feel about the photo content.
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> It's one of the toughest things about pictures of the family because we
> read
> all kinds of things into what "we think" it conveys but in truth it really
> doesn't portray those thoughts to other viewers.
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> So it's tough to drop it to file 13 to the waste basket! Then re-try to
> capture the moment once again in focus.
>
> Yeah I know you know I'm right. :-)
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> And yes I know exactly how you feel about your son, I've two of them and 6
> grandsons. But in reality this is one of those photos you look at alone
> and
> say to yourself.. "if only I'd have focused faster!" Shed a tear, put it
> away for a look another day. :-)
>
> ted
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In reply to: Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] 7 year old emotional blast (PAW))
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] 7 year old emotional blast (PAW))