[Leica] snooze and squeeze...

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

Ouch! No more technical critiques or theory for you from Down Under ;-)
I thought Durer's part quote was very cool. It is nearly 500 years old.
He even has a Hahnemuele fine art paper named in his honour!

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


On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> 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. ;-) ;-)


no, I don't think Henri was ever that preachy and pedantic...


;-)

Steve

> -----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