[Leica] crowd shot

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

The pile of "outtakes" always overshadows the pile of "keepers".  25 
degrees to the right would have definitely made this one a keeper.

Walt


Ted Grant wrote:

> Sonny showed:
> Subject: crowd shot
> http://www.sonc.com/crowd_shot.htm<<<
>
> Hi Sonny,
> First re-action? And I hate to say it to an experienced photographer like
> yerself, however mon ami........ You focused in the wrong place!!! :-(
>
> I know I may well rue the day saying that when you get one on me, but 
> I find
> all those out of focus people in the foreground just too disturbing! /
> distracting!
>
> I'd have focused on the near people and let everything drop away from 
> there
> rather than reaching part way into the crowd in an out-in-out areas of
> focus.
>
> The out of focus folks in the near foreground create a visual 
> distraction,
> that if they were in focus then dropping away to the complete 
> background it
> would've made the crowd look even greater.
>
> OK old buddy come back. ;-)
>
> ted
>
>
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