Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the suggestions, Alan. Always looking to improve. These were all taken on the fly, wandering around the room, no posing or interaction between myself and the students, at least for photographic purposes. Many lab related questions. Hit and run, as I did not want to be noticed. Most had no idea I took their picture until I showed them a slide show of the lab activities we did for the quarter. Aram -------------------------------------------------- From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:23 PM To: "lug " <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Some students > On 28 Aug 2013, at 16:00, Aram Langhans wrote: > >> Just completed my summer school class at the local college. Here are a >> few shots of some my my students intently working on some labs. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/s_001/yvcc-3536.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/s_001/yvcc-3535.jpg.html >> >> Good crew this summer. >> >> Comments welcome. >> >> Aram >> > ===================================================================================================================================================== > These are quite nice, but I hope you will allow me (since this is the type > of thing I did for 40 years) to suggest that a lower angle might have had > more impact. > That would have brought the students' faces closer behind the hand with > the pencil, given a more dynamic upright to the top of the pipette, and > allowed the face of the student on the right to be seen better. > > In the second shot, I think a step to the left and a lower angle might > have shown both faces and emphasized the gaze of student with glasses even > more than as is, since she would be looking more toward the camera. Also, > the way it is, the pipette and the woman's hair merge together tonally, > and you want us to see the pipette. Changing angle would put her hand > against the out of focus background. > > I would also have used (gently) a few gradient filters in Bridge to shade > the corners of the picture to make the pipetting the main interest and > keep the eye from being distracted with white paper or scuffed countertop. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA POY 1978 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > >