[Leica] night summer in Paris

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Yes and no, Buzz - If the lack of focus, proper exposure, and/or grain
distract, then the image is devalued. Were Capa's images not of the
D-Day landing they'd never have been accepted for or as anything. And,
the damage done to the negatives actually adds to the impact of the
prints, because it adds an element of blurr, of action, and a sense of
the danger faced by the subjects and the photographer. But this Paris
Night photo is a lovely image degraded by its technical flaws, because
while one is taken by its composition, the smile of the woman, the man
on the right, one also looks at it thinking, "was this processed in
orange juice? How far was it blown up? Did the photographer crop a tiny
segement of an otherwise crappy shot, trying to save it?" I'm not
suggesting that the later is the case at all, but I do think that
focus,exposure, and grain count for something... ;-)

Yr Buddy....B. D.

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[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
buzz.hausner@verizon.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:09 AM
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Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] night summer in Paris


Some people get so hung up on exposure, focus and grain.  If it is a
great picture, enough said.  If only Robert Capa had taken faster film
with him to the D-Day landing...

Buzz Hausner
> 
> From: "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com>
> Date: 2004/07/28 Wed AM 08:51:44 EDT
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] night summer in Paris
> 
> Nice picture but dreadful quality.  It looks like it's been blown up 
> from a low resolution scan of a Minox negative.
> 
> Neil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+nbeddoe=lehman.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+nbeddoe=lehman.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> Fran?ois Berton
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] night summer in Paris
> 
> 
> go and see 
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/photos.francois.b/Petites%20Images.htm


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