Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Rick Santorum and the Leica in your Pocket
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Jan 18 09:24:13 2005

Sure looks like him to me. And why does a portrait have to flatter? ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Glenn Stauffer
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:48 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Rick Santorum and the Leica in your Pocket


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:17:39 -0500, Kyle Cassidy
<KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I was on my way to D.C. Friday and found myself on the train across 
> from United States Senator Rick Santorum. He spent 90% of the trip 
> talking on his cell phone. Luckily, I had my Leica with me.
> 
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2005/3/ricksantorum.jpg
> 

As a portrait, I don't think the picture flatters him.  The thickness of
his neck is accentuated  by the angle of his head.  Is it the focal
length of the lens, an artifact of the focus point, or the angle that
makes his nose look longer than it appears in his official portraits? 
The angle of the face makes his right eye (left eye in the photo) look
smaller than the other and a bit wonky?  I don't see that in his
official portraits.

Good camera work - focus, framing, sharpness, etc.  Not so good a
portrait.  Back a little further and a more straight-on shot would have
made it more flattering, I think.

Glenn
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