Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mitch, I feel the composition is a little cluttered. Is the subject the guys with the Buddha, or the motorbiker, or the general street scene? I would like to see more of something specific than a little of a many things in the scene. Decide what the point of the photo is, and focus on that. For example, you could have moved lower and closer to the Buddha, used a larger aperture for *less* depth of field, and maybe show the motorbike going by as a soft blur with a slower shutter speed. Looking at the photo, I wonder if the motorbiker is moving or not. If the focus is the guy on the motorbike, I'd get right up in his face a little lower and a little more to his right, use a large aperture, but perhaps stopped down just enough to see a blurry figure of the Buddha behind him. The key point I'm making is to get closer to the subject and try to make a specific point to your viewer. - --Jim - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitch Alland" <malland@xsmail.com> To: "leica-users" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: [Leica] Please critique Bangkok picture > I don't know whether this is done on the LUG, but can you critique the > following picture: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1618400 > > --Mitch/Bangkok > > -- > 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