Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Week 22 - Gilbert
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:17:56 -0700
References: <B7411623.1CD8C%gilplant@earthlink.net> <3B1FF420.865EDD8F@webshuttle.ch>

Gilbert Plantinga wrote:
Two shots this week:
http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/wk22.html
And the alternate:
 http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/wk22a.html

Nathan responded:
>>> The main pic is nice, but I would crop it a bit tighter, especially on
the left side.<<<<

Hi Gilbert,
I'd like to add "hold the camera straight!" ;-) It appears you are doing
what myself and I see other Leica folks do, let the upper right or left
corner of the camera lean forward, in effect you throw only the one corner
of the frame out of line and distortion occurs.

In your case it's the upper left corner leaning forward and possibly sagging
down also. I'd also crop out the partial person on the left side as she's
distracting.

Other than those three nit picking observations it's a very interesting
shot, certainly with the mannequins in the window as part of the crowd.
ted

In reply to: Message from Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net> ([Leica] Week 22 - Gilbert)
Message from Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> (Re: [Leica] Week 22 - Gilbert)