Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 27, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Steve Barbour showed & asked: > Subject: [Leica] the operating room... >> images from the operating room... >> >> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95638.html >> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95639.html<<< > > Steve you know how hard this is for me to answer, but here goes for > both photographs. :-) I bow my head and stand ready... > >> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95638.html<<< > > I think you should've tried for the "eyes" and forget the hand > coming across with the instrument out of focus. I wanted the eyes, but also the action hand in .... got the eyes ...well almost... I suspect the mask is a problem here... > Although? > > The better would've been to have the hand in focus as it's closer > to the camera and let the scrub nurse go soft in the back ground. > Unless you had an absolute clean shot at her eyes! Certainly not an > easier shot to say the least. > > But she would've reached through the camera area several times and > all you had to do was concentrate on the hand and shoot several > until you had it right. > > Look in my book I know you have, "This is Our Work" plate 53 where > I shot at least a dozen frames as I tried to get the hand of the > surgeon as it passed between the OR light and my camera. > > Or for those of you with "Doctor's Work." it's page 169. > > This kind of picture is like shooting sports because it happens > over and over, so you go for the action of the hand until you feel > you have it right on the mark. > >> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-95639.html<<< > > This is a tough call when you compare some of the hand pictures in > "This is Our Work" and "Doctors Work." > > What I'm visually fighting here is the sharpness of the hand > closest to you and the "brighter" slightly out of focus bkgd hand. > I might have tried burning in the back ground hand. And that might > yet be the easiest. I couldn't have gotten such advice from anyone better or more accomplished.... much appreciated, thank you Ted... Steve > > ted > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information