Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Barbour showed: Subject: ICU images... Hi Steve, > teaching in the ICU... > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/paul+maggie.jpg.html As you well know that Noctilux can be a killer beautiful creating and capturing piece of glass. Unfortunately the super shallow depth of field can be a killer in reverse! :-) And that's what I feel kills the potential this picture had. I find the out of focus person a visual disturbance rather than a bonus of two people communicating as the picture illustrates. If he were a stop or two sharper you'd probably have made it. You have the three main elements of making a good picture.... LIGHT-EYES-ACTION! The light is fine, available, no problem. The action, hands, right on the mark making a point! Unfortunately the out of focus eyes and facial expression of the person at the back kills the whole scene. :-( :-( Too bad, it's simply a missed moment due to technicalities. :-( These can be corrected in the future in similar situations. Chalk it up to a "LEARNING EXPERIENCE!":-( Look the bottom line in all of this?..... you saw the right moment and that's far more important than a screwed-up technical thing. Because that illustrates ....... "you are seeing the right moments!" Besides it's far more important to have the talent to see motivating moments. Simply because you wont make the same techie errors in the future due to the mistake you made here. Being able to see interesting motivating moments is a basic inherent instinct, you either have it or you don't! Yep some of that can be learned through teaching, working with people who have it and it's picked-up or learned through osmosis! You can feel bad all you want, forget it! The truth is the next time you run into this type of depth situation you wont make the same mistake again! :-) There is good that can come from a screw-up, heck who's so perfect he hasn't ever made a photo error! ;-) The second picture? Jeeeeeeesh you've produced much much better.:-( I find the child kind of buried under all the stuff. I'm also influenced by the better images of situations of this nature you've posted earlier. This isn't completely bad, it's just not a gold ring winning shot! ted