Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks George. I truly appreciate your wisdom, Bob Sent from my iPad On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:33 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Robert Adler wrote: > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/Fresno-CF000325-Master.jpg.html >> >> (recommend a large view) >> >> I added a small prop to the image which I'm thinking of using more often >> if >> I can't find a bench, just to give a sense of scale/place. If you notice >> it, I'd appreciate your opinions on its use. Sometimes it may be discrete, >> as in this image; sometimes more apparent. > > Does this "propping" stem from a sense of passion? > Does the "photograph" need a prop? > Does the "prop" add to composition, line, form, value, texture, content? > or > Does it become a "conceit?" > > As Henning mentioned - Red Couch book certainly comes to mind. > as does > > As does the fellow who included himself in every city and landscape > <http://www.creativephotography.org/study-research/educators/tseng-kwong-chi> > which I actually found much more profound than the Red Couch > as > It's so very interesting that "we" don't generally appear in our > "photographs." > They're generally something we "point at." > whereas Tseng seems to point strikingly at "I was here." > > Helmut Newton often accomplished a similar feeling; > along with the eroticism. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information