[Leica] Three "real" B.D.s/hands and eyes

["Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>]

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.

thanks very much BD.... here....

crop...   http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-46788.html

original...  http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-46787.html


which do you prefer?

Steve

> > 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
> 
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