Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> This was a strange one. Sometimes you don't know what you're going to > get. During our walk Sunday, we went past a playground. On the slide, I > saw a tiny leg peeking out into the sunlight, hesitating. I thought it was > cute, I just raised my camera focused and shot. > > I was wearing sunglasses, so I didn't see into the shadows. Later I > discovered I'd captured the image of a little girl who was very afraid of > what she was about to do. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitate-w.jpg.h > tml > > It's even more disturbing in black-and-white. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitateBW-w.jpg > .html > > There's something kind of Diane Arbus-ish about this one. The emotion is > real, but I'm not sure if I want to keep this one up. What do you think? > > M8, 50 Summicron. B&W version with a purple-blue digital filter to lighten > the slide somewhat. > > --Peter > > I'm glad you did it in monochrome as that purple is really something else. I'd keep the little girl dark! I can tell you if you did that monochrome conversion in PS3 you'd really be able to go to town with it! Mark William Rabiner markrabiner.com