Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WEEK 11 (Lee)
From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:02:06 -0500

on 3/18/01 4:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman at wajsman@webshuttle.ch wrote:

> "Oppenheimer Park" is a nice composition, especially well appreciated when I
> went to the Large view. The only quibble is that the person does not appear to
> be completely sharp.

But over "unsharp masked" in photoshop? Is that a telltale "halo" on the
woman's leg at the left of the picture?

> The "Sunrise Market" reminds me of some of Winogrand's photos, and I do not
> mean it as a compliment. I think that the tilt does not add anything to the
> composition, and the fact that you cannot see the subject's face removes the
> main point of interest from the photo.

I _like_ the Winogrand tilt, but found that the cut-off legs disturbed the
composition.

Also just my opinion.

Gilbert

> Lee Bacchus wrote:
> 
>> Egads! Another week-end, another PAW to dispense.  In this case, two more
>> shots (http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=52810)
>> from the series I'm doing for an inner-city service group. They're part of
>> an upcoming exhibition on Vancouver's troubled Downtown Eastside
>> neighborhood. I'm not that happy with the exposure in either, but for me
>> they fit my notion of showing imagery from the area that is neither
>> stereotypically gloomy nor blissfully ignorant of the neighborhood's
>> oppressive atmosphere. Comments welcome.