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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Gloucester Trebles - Help please! Mono or colour?
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:51:16 +0000
References: <A8542704-BCE6-4CF0-AE0C-EC1CCAC39177@btinternet.com> <9C58528B-4F82-4801-9697-E100F470A68D@btinternet.com>

Original colour for me, the crop detracts IMO

john

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Dear Al, Jim, John, Ken, Montie, Jayanand, Nathan, Douglas, Gerry, David,
> Clayton, George and Howard,
> 
> Many thanks to you all for taking the time to look and comment. I have to
> send the print in by the end of this month. The 8th July deadline was for
> registration of the entry only.
> 
> I have had a lot of comments and have reworked the images to
> 
> a) crop out the lights in the upper part of the frame
> b) dodge the face of the boy on the left
> c) changed the mono working
> 
> Reworked colour
> http://www.gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/topoxforddoc/Gloucester+Trebles+cropped+colour+L1005472.jp
> g.html
> 
> Reworked mono
> http://www.gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/topoxforddoc/Gloucester+Trebles+cropped+mono+L1005472.jp
> g.html
> 
> Which one now? From all your previous comments, I presume the colour
> one.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charlie
> 
> Charlie Chan
> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 13 Jul 2013, at 20:44, Charlie Chan wrote:
> 
> > I have decided to enter the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Portrait
> Gallery in London. As usual not a hope of getting selected.
> >
> > http://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize1/site13/
> >
> > For the last 18 months, I have been photographing the Gloucester
> Cathedral Choir, where my youngest son is a chorister. Hence my entry this
> year is from this project.
> >
> > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/topoxforddoc/Gloucester+Trebles+c
> > olour+L1005472.jpg.html
> > http://www.gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/topoxforddoc/Gloucester+Trebles+m
> > ono+L1005472.jpg.html
> >
> > So which version do i send in? The colour or the mono version? They are
> both printed to A2 size. I just need some help to decide which one to send 
> in.
> Not that it matters, but this was shot with my M9 and 75 lux.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
> > Charlie Chan
> > www.charlie-chan.co.uk
> >
> > 


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