[Leica] Señorita Backlight

[leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

Quoth the Ted Grant :

> Lluis offered:
> Subject: [Leica] Se?orita Backlight
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1009002.jpg.html
> 
> Hi Lluis,
> Oh so close! :-( Now given that nobody else stepped into the frame
> before you shot, you should have let her take a couple more steps and she
> would have had a complete body shadow behind her and the picture would've
> been perfect. instead of a cut off body! :-(

Best approach, yes.... 

but there's also the possibility of cropping the 'dead space' at left 
and bottom.  (It wouldn't be dead space if the full shadow were 
there, but since it's not, it is.)

And you wind up with something akin to this:  

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rcmckee/other/L1009002x.jpg.html


It's a street scene, this way, playing up the "following" aspect and 
adding questions, and it changes your original storyline for the 
shot... but I think it works.

YMMV.

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