Re: [Leica] watching...waiting

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

Ted, working on this and then hearing your comments, along with those
of Tina and Nathan,  was valuable ... I was too fixated on having the
Mother there, but I must agree, it just doesn't work...I will try it
the other way, and possibly, post the result....

thanks, Steve

> Steve Barbour showed:
> Subject: [Leica] watching...waiting
> > fresh from the OR.... the long wait.
> >> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-54546.html<<<<
>
> Hi Steve,
> This may have been mentioned...
>
> The person on the right is a distraction. Actually it's the big
Superman "S"
> letter on her chest that catches the eye first, then you look at the
child
> and doctor.
>
> The impact of the picture is lost because of the "S" person and the
gap
> between her and the doctor. I'd have cropped into the left shoulder
of the
> doctor to a point just re-moving the dark "hump" behind her
shoulder, adding
> a "slight" burning down of the child, left side of the frame top to
bottom,
> and across the bottom holding the viewers eye right to the action,
> doctor-patient.
>
> Once again you prove how important eyes are in people picture
situations!
>
> We hear with our ears,  the doctor with the "stethoscope." But we
listen
> with our eyes!!! And that's exactly what this doctor is doing ......
> "Listening with her eyes!"
>
> On occasion when shooting or cropping we tend to include "too much"
because
> of what we "know," in this case the mother on the right waiting.
However,
> she doesn't matter in this picture because she's hanging off the
side with a
> big gap between her and the action.  Adding nothing to the impact of
the
> "action" ...... which is really, doctor - patient.
>
> A good one never the less, all the cropping does is tighten it up
slightly
> improving what was there in the first place.
>
> ted

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