Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 6/20/01 3:38 AM, Brian McCarthy at straightline@btinternet.com wrote: > Well seen. This is a really nice image into which you can weave all sorts of > stories, but it also has an immediate impact. It would probably work equally > well in black & white or colour. Nice. which would have solved the problem Ted pointed out: on 6/20/01 8:59 AM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote: > Now for the nit pick part! ;-) In the background, right behind the couple's > head is a light with red banner that take ones eye right past them at first > glance, unfortunately once seen, it continues to be a distraction each time > you look at the picture.. > > How do you get away from it at the moment of shooting and not give yourself > away as a "visual distraction" to the couple or old chap with the paper? > > Not likely much, as this is a see it, react, shoot! And damn the > distractions. Given today's PhotoShop the red flag would be easily removed. But I really like the shot. If you find the red distracting simply convert it to grayscale in PS (or use the channel mixer). Gilbert