Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"SonC (Sonny Carter)" <cartersn@nsula.edu> wrote: > been admiring all the great street-shooting techniques, > and thought I'd try my hand at it. > >http://www.sonc.com/street_shooting.htm Some thoughts: 1. There is no reason why such a tiny image at the above URL should be 357 KB. Try to use JPEG compression to reduce the kb size to a more typical 50-100 KB (not all of us are on university-sponsored T3 links!) 2. Don't supply the image full-sized at (in this case) 1241 x 1573. Scale it down in pshop to whatever size you wish to finally display it at (here 318 x 403). 3. The people(?) in the shot are a little far away, no? IMO, candid slice-of-life photography requires recognisable faces at 4m or less. Yes this requires courage / gall / rudeness / friendliness / whatever - which is why so few can do it, and why so much 'street photography' is little more than shots of peoples backs. So, don't give up, but you've got a _long_ way to go... :?) Regds, Andrew Nemeth <http://4020.net> -> photos, 360° panoramic vrs, sounds <http://nemeng.com> -> vr java applets, leica faq, tech info