[Leica] M8 and the Future

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Doggone it David

I have to agree that
1. Love Rollies
2 .Looks  great on my mid range monitor
3. Daniel is certainly a man of talents
4. Aye, there's the rub.   Only my opinion it seems but:

    a. The building and water shot is fabulously fit into a square
    b. The beautiful young ladies modeling  are great shots but I'd have 
moved to the right. Bring the foggy background closer to her right. Same 
with the rocks.
    c. The boat fits a square and floats well.
    d. The boy in the chair and the boy and girl with hot dog are not 
compositionally sound.
    e. The great shot of the two young ladies together does a few things 
that bother me. Cropping fingers off hands, etc. Great expressions and 
relationship but da  fingers da         fingers.....The barrel and cup 
as well. If it's worth cutting in half it's worth leaving out.
    f.  The young lad on the fence is another fantastic shot. Love it. 
Square and all.
    g. The two men fit a vertical format not a square.
    h. The young lad in the hallway is really interesting. The blurred 
figure works well. The image also works well if the man were 
Photoshopped out and we just see the boy.
        Something about his expression and the hallway behind makes it 
almost surreal.

Great work Daniel and I'm only putting forth an opinion about fitting 
things into a square.

Walt



David Rodgers wrote:

>I don't know which impresses me more; 1) that these were taken with a
>Rollieflex, 2) that they look fantastic even on my (rather pathetic)
>monitor or 3) that they are all compositionally sound.  
>
>It's one thing to take a great photograph. It's another to process, scan
>and present those photographs on-line without losing any quality in the
>process. Each step requires different skills, none of which is easy to
>master. Daniel is a man of many talents. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: G Hopkinson [mailto:hoppyman@bigpond.net.au] 
>Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:11 PM
>To: 'Leica Users Group'
>Subject: RE: [Leica] M8 and the Future
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>Daniel, every time you post this stuff from the Rollei, I think that we
>should enact some LUG regulation that says you are only
>allowed to shoot this bw with the Rollei and nothing else. Wonderful
>tonality as always.
>What is the background story to the flooding photos?
>Cheers
>Hoppy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf
>Of
>Daniel Ridings
>Sent: Wednesday, 1 November 2006 01:34
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 and the Future
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>Walt Johnson wrote:
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>>Very few square photographs appear well composed to me. I'd go 6x9 and
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>>be fine.
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>I beg your pardon:
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>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/2006v22/06v22-0011.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/2006v13/06v13-0001.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/2006v15/06v15-0039.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/04v16-0028a-65429.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/04v10-61939.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/22-37338.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/v26-0012-47928.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/merna-sandy-37312.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/23-37335.jpg.html
>http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/nyeve2006/05v52-0015.jpg.html
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>Daniel
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