[Leica] snooze and squeeze...

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Aah, playing the HCB card hey?
Looks like you are doing fine on the decisive moment criteria. So we can
assume that there was zero cropping, ever! and also someone else suffered in
the darkroom for your unconscious art ;-)
Want to talk about HCB's instinctive and magnificent mastery of composition
and geometry from his training as a painter? Or some really difficult negs
made without the benefit of meters and other new fangled developments?

'..Sane judgement abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no
technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence..."
Albrecht Durer, 1535. ;-) ;-)

Cheers
Geoff
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http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/

-----Original Message-----

Subject: Re: [Leica] snooze and squeeze...

On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> Steve, the moments caught and the people's faces are delightful. I  
> have to be the heretic and say that I don't think the light makes them
ideal candidates for BW. (Lower levels with a little less distinct  
> direction and their natural darker skin tones). Mainly though I think both
benefit from lighter rendering. There is modelling and sufficient detail
there, seen when lightened (I tried globally lighter and they improve IMHO).

please Geoff  send to me privately...I'd really appreciate it.

> For me they are too far into the darks so that hair and eyes detail are
lost. Two more heresies;
> A blink of fill flash might have been good for eyes in squeeze and I  
> bet that you would get more differentiation and engagement in colour in  
> both. Were these converted or shot as BW originals?

I have to be honest...

shot as bw...

handheld, no flash, no tripod, no studio lights, in the clinic, during  
real life ...

I think I am the heretic...

(but Henri would be proud...)


:-)

> I'd be happy to read dissenting opinion (and probably will!)


I wouldn't entirely rule it out...

:-)


Steve