Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Neal Friedenthal showed: Subject: [Leica] IMG; Contemplative > Caught my wife in a rare contemplative mood with the M8 and a 50mm f1.4 > Summilux single light bulb, full aperture, 1/45 sec manual set, iso 320.. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/NealF/fam+frnds/L1021843a.jpg.html<<< Hi Neal, very nice use of the light, particularly the catch-lights in her eyes! Beauty! Makes them alive and gives life to the picture. Given this is a contemplative moment and not a posed moment, please consider this "nit picking" comment as superficial. However. If it were possible, without destroying the moment. "that's most important" in a situation like this, I'd have had her rotate her hand from the eye catching flat side to camera, to the narrower angle of the "little finger side of her hand toward camera." When reading this, take the same pose as your wife with left hand on chin and rotate your hand counter clockwise until your thumb is at your chin and you'll see exactly what I mean. Then you don't have the eye catching "flat part." All in all? It's a very nice captured moment. Love the catch light in her eyes! :-) ted