Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for your response and your alternates, Richard. In my experience a formal image - like the lighthouse - is about shapes and textures and light and dark and stillness. People, almost always, bring motion and focus - our pattern recognition engines want to SEE them and know what they're doing. Obviously, as in nude fine-art photography, all of those things can be a part of the composition. But nudes seldom have faces and seldom are "in action" although I can think of exceptions to both of these. Of course you framed your image with those folks in mind, but I like both your suggestion and B. D.'s as well. Thanks! Adam On 10/5/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > Adam - Your comment about the people detracting from the image in > this case rally caught my attention since I have been trying to get > MORE people into my photos not less. In any case, I wanted to follow > up on your suggestion so I took them out using PS/CS. > > No people: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/03_9_0071_no_people_crop_web > > People: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/03_9_0071_web > > The photo looked a bit unbalanced to my eye without the people so I > cropped it tighter. This seems like an improvement to my eye it > would be interesting to hear what you and others think. > > I took six shots in all of which this was the best. Probably should > have shot more but I was on my way to dinner with friends and felt > some time pressure. Couldn't move much more to the left either which > I think might have improved the photo without the people since there > is a restricted area there. > > In any case, many thanks for the detailed comments. > > > > >Well I like the picket fence shapes in contrast to the cylinder of the > >lighthoue and the light/shadow of the fence in the first photo. For me > >the people distract from the forms and I'd have worked the angles with > >fence and lighthouse, maybe trying some from different heights as well > >- close to the ground, using arms over the head for a higher vantage > >point. Of course you might have done this. I know my own failure is to > >not work an image enough, especially one that's as static as a fence > >and lighthouse. I also think this first image has the most depth and > >contrast, the other images have a flat feeling to them, at least to my > >eye. > > > >Adam > > > >On 10/3/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Here are three from last weekend. M7/Fuji Press 400 converted to B&W > >> in PS/CS. Commercial 2K x 3K scans. Nobska Light is set on a bluff > >> over looking Vineyard Sound on the south side of Cape Cod, > >> Massachusetts. > >> > >> First Nobska light itself (35 f2 ASPH): > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/03_9_0071_web > >> > >> Vineyard Sound from the light (Current 50 Elmarit): > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/03_5_0067_web > >> > >> Vineyard Sound again (Current 50 Elmarit). The high-key effect was > >> done in PS/CS from a normally exposed negative. > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/03_18_0080_web > >> > >> Comments encouraged on all, of course, but I'm particularly > >> interested in hearing whether or not the last photo works. Many > >> thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> > >> Dick > >> Boston MA > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick > Boston MA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >