[Leica] dogwood berries

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Sonny Carter asked:
Subject: Re: [Leica] dogwood berries


> Yeah, so how come Steve don't have to focus his front flowers?
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/redflowers.jpg.html

Ok now, steady. ;-)

Don't go and get all weepy eye'd and petulant stamping yer feet! Be good 
now, just git out in the yard and do yer home work! ;-) As he's in error 
also! :-) Now feel better? ;-) Jeeeeesh kids these days!

Actually his error is "cropping" of this image as we see it! As he could've 
tightend this up in shooting and used the one full bloom keeping it at 
rougly the 1/3 position right side and bottom keeping the leaf area to the 
left. But cutting off just about the top of this area before going into the 
black of the back ground at the top. totally eliminating the out of focus 
bloom.

Then down to the bottom of the same leaf area. It could have been shot in 
this fashion first giving a larger image area to sensor and less cropping.

Or as we see here, he should've cropped down through the image almost due 
centre eliminating the bulk of the image to the right!

The main focus of his photo is the one bright red flower and sort of leafy 
area that could've been cropped or cropped out in the view finder before 
going click! :-) Placing the bright red flower about the 1/3 position from 
right side and from the bottom. Or close to that.

If I knew how to grab this photo, re-compose and send I'd do it and this 
explanation would be a visual. :-) And much easier to see and understand! 
;-)

And to make you feel better we'll re-assign Steve to re-shoot this if it's 
possible as his home work! ;-)

I know how you young boys are when a critique kinda gits under yer skin, but 
yu gotta do it right! Or how are you going to become a world famous picture 
taker? ;-)

Some day you'll thank me for makin' yu do the back yard spin around left 
handed at 1/8th or slower shutter speed.:-)

yer really old picture takin' teacher, :-)
Dr. ted :-)