Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] Opinions about "Away from the cloud"
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 11:56:14 -0500 (CDT)
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It is an image from Ingmar Bergman!

On May 27, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Here a shot from my trip to the Dutch island of Texel last year:
> 
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/texel2011/content/20110618__IGP1597_large.html
> 
> I feel that the humans in the image enhance it by providing a reference 
> for scale, among other things.
> 
> On the other hand, in this image (from the same trip), I am quite pleased 
> that no humans are around:
> 
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/texel2011/content/20110618__IGP1696_large.html
> 
> Why? I have no idea, I am not into deep analysis of my pictures, it is all 
> gut feeling.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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> 
> 
> YNWA
> 
> 
> 
> On May 23, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Marc Dufour wrote:
> 
>> B&W option:  6
>> Color option:        3
>> Abstention:  1
>> 
>> It's clear the B&W concept easily prevails.
>> And basically for the same reason: the human figures distract the 
>> attention
>> in the color option, meanwhile they virtually disappear in the B&W.
>> I agree with this argument, indeed.
>> The question is: When is people disturbing in a landscape image? When do
>> they enhance it.?
>> I hadn't planned to include any human figure in the frame, when the couple
>> got closer. 
>> Now I wonder if I should have to wait they gone. !
>> 
>> Thanks to all and each one of you: Jim, Herbert, Tina, Richard, Barry, 
>> Ted,
>> Jayanand, Aram, Bill and Philippe "Shumasher" Amard :-)
>> Best regards,
>> Marc
>> 
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In reply to: Message from foto at marcdufour.net (Marc Dufour) ([Leica] Opinions about "Away from the cloud")
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Opinions about "Away from the cloud")