Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Truly awful. What were the teams that I suppose must have been in the room doing? No excuse these were digital, there will have been every opportunity to vet what happened, particularly with such a large group to shoot their way through. Imagine what would be said if a LUGger wasted such an opportunity and posted this lot ;-) Peter Brian Reid wrote: > The New York Times magazine just ran a set of portraits of "Obama's People" > > > http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/2009-inauguration-gallery/index.html > > > It feels to me as though the photographer went out of his way to make > all of his subjects look unnatural and bizarre. They are posed > awkwardly, the lighting is very peculiar, the camera angles are unusual, > and the subjects were usually photographed off-guard. > > What does anybody else think? Was the photographer here trying to create > a negative perception of these people? > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig