Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 10 is up
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:54:30 +0100
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Hi Michael,

Thanks for looking. I do wish that the head in the foreground were not there,
but the shop is very small and quite busy, so I had no opportunity to have a
scene with just the shopkeeper and one customer. And there was not much space
to move around for a clearer view. In a way, that is why I like this picture--I
managed to get a decent composition despite those constraints.

Another thing this shot demonstrates is how usable Ilford SFX is. I am in the
process of shooting a brick of it given to me by a friend, dated 10/98 but kept
in a fridge. It is a nice normal film, but slap a dark red filter on the lens
and you have sort-of infrared effects. Very versatile film.

Nathan

"Michael E. Bérubé" wrote:

> At 10:03 AM 3/11/01 +0100, Nathan wrote:
> >Comments welcome and appreciated.
> >See at:
> >http://www.geocities.com/belgiangator/pawindex.htm
>
> Nathan,
> Again, I'm not all that knowledgeable on the street photos genre, and I
> like this image as it is a well exposed and of an interesting shop scene
> with some good visual 'triangles' (that they taught us to look for in photo
> school), but is the partial head in the foreground a distracting element?
> (Or is that acceptable in the game of SP?)
>
> Carpe Luminem,
> Michael E. Bérubé

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Nathan Wajsman
Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland

e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch

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In reply to: Message from "Michael E. Bérubé" <MEB@goodphotos.com> (Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 10 is up)