Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]all cropping is seat of the pants and passing fancy for me, but here's the way i see it right this minute till i get the oil changed in the time machine, i won't think about shooting it vertically;^) i like the shot ric -------------- next part -------------- On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:11 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > Ric and Mark: Agreed on the need to crop. Can't quite decide what's > best. > > Here's one with a bit of context remaining. I didn't dodge the > girl's face in this one. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitateBW2-w.jpg.html > > > > And here's a *really* drastic crop: > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231bwCrop3-w.jpg.html > > > > > Intermediate crops seemed too long and skinny > > Whatcha think? > > --Peter > > At 01:41 PM 4/7/2008 -0700, Ric Carter wrote: >> I think you should keep it, but give it a severe crop to get rid of >> the extraneous playground equipment. >> >> a commentary on the whole birth anxiety thing. >> >> I like the black and white version. > > And Mark Rabiner wrote: >> 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! > >> On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Peter Klein wrote: >> > 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.html >> > >> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information