[Leica] NYC trip, and others

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Kenneth Frazier showed:
Subject: [Leica] NYC trip, and others


> Here's the latest in catching up....recent trip to NYC via Union  Station 
> in New Haven, and others.
> > http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r<<

Hi Ken,
"Eye motion!" ... It bounces to three different elements.. "the girl, the 
sign and the doughnut sign "OPEN" through the doorway to the left.

And there isn't anything in the photo indicating she's waiting for a train 
or that she's even in a train station. So sometimes adding a caption isn't 
worth the time it takes to write it.

Your pictures should stand on their visual impact alone!..... that is unless 
it's so dramatically different it requires words so a viewer understands 
what the photographer was trying to capture or create.

Even then the photo must have visual attraction that makes some sense, no 
matter how outlandish that might be at times.

Your number 8 photo... "Sun bathing on Broadway." is an example of where 
words work because the subject looks like he's "catching some rays" and the 
words tie right in with the stance and head held slightly back facing into 
the sun.

The girl IMHO just doesn't cut it in the same manner. Besides I think you 
were suckered by the Light into thinking there was a picture here more than 
there was. Trust me "light" will do that to you lots of times no matter how 
many years one has been shooting.

The reaction is... "Jeeeeeesh look at the light?" Yeah right... it's light 
and that's all, it isn't a picture. No different when looking at  a sunset 
that others are oooohhing and aaaahing about it's beauty and you're standing 
there enjoying it, but not taking pictures. The next thing you know the 
people are asking ..... "Hey it's beautiful why aren't you taking pictures?"

And if one understands light, sunsets and sunrises, often they are 
beautiful, but they don't make a beautiful picture. The trick is knowing 
what needs to be added or angle changed to make the beauty of the setting 
sun turn it into a beautiful photograph. ;-)

ted