Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Terrific, Steve...Really compelling shot.....now, if I can do a Ted for an instant, I'd bring the left-hand border into about the inner edge of that black shadow, and the bottom up to the top of the child's knee....but that's just me...It's a great image that really tells a story... B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve Barbour Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 10:41 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Three "real" B.D.s/hands and eyes > bdcolen showed: > Subject: [Leica] Three "real" B.D.s G'day B.D., > Well done on all three illustrating once again B&W without pretty >colours distracting from the content. My preference in order: > # 1: Hands. > Even though viewers have seen this type of picture before, yours has a solid > mother-child feel, rather than the usual male hand, brute strength > look with > tiny baby hand. > > Question?..... > did you try a crop just below the baby's lower eyelids leaving hands only? > I'm not totally convinced they should be, but it appears to strengthen the > hands more so. The eyes are so strong and slightly out of focus that > it sort > of pulls the viewer there rather than solidly staying on the hands. > Have a > look.> # 2: mother & child. > Me and my always relating to the eyes of the subject, as in "LIGHT - EYES - > ACTION." What we have is a teeny negative here, again due to the > baby's eyes. No it's not a big deal item nor does it spoil the picture > because the > child's eyeline is off camera and it "might have been" read again > ...."might" .... be a better overall photograph if there were someone, > or yourself, doing something to catch the baby's eyes in the same > direction as > the very attractive mother. > > Again this is a minor point, but quite often it's a minor point that sorts > out the really great photographs from the "not bad" photographs. My > comments are minor, but by no means to pull the photographs down, as they > stand quite well as we see them. My thoughts are merely a kind of tweaking > slightly." ;-) good on you B.D. > ted BD's excellent image of hands and eyes (above) and Ted's comments about it , poked me to post this little "je ne sais quoi".... http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-46787.html another in the PICU.... good weekend. Steve - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html