Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, it's a slow day at the office so I did what Mark did and lightened it up and I'll now say I agree with what he says. I could go into a lot more detail reason-wise but he says it better than I probably would. On reflection, and with better image-ization, I see it in a whole different light. So To Speak.. --Bob ==On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I agree with the negatives so far being said here. > Its dark. I had to save it and lighten it up just to see it. > This happens to shots we are indecently dealing with; a tendency to print > them "down". A year later we reprint them lighter. > And the mothers glance off to the side in some ways does not work for me. > But then they're the rest of the picture: > > But the way the many elements in this shot all work together to me is > nothing short of brilliant. > The ?gesture into the middle of the frame of the boy on the bench on the > left is amazing. ?Balletic. > The way the daughter frames the frame on the left but still is gorgeous... > The terrific chickens on the dirt floor with the dead one hanging from the > ceiling.... > And the interest of the detail of all the stuff on the walls. > The shot is as gorgeous as it is a powerful sociological statement. > I'd like to have it hanging on my wall. > I'll like it to be the first page of a big fat important book with Tina's > name on it on my bookshelf in my appartment > It has a higher level of intense humanity the the bulk of shots Tina is > showing us on her sites. And I've seen of her prints and projected slides. > I'd show this shot around and see how it feels having other mentors and > just > other people seeing it; seeing it through their eyes. > To me its a sleeper. Its a major find. > I'd have it be the first page or my latest portfolio or the top of the > stack > of a box of prints I was carrying around. > At least towards the top of the deck. > > > I'd re scan it from scratch or have a drum scan made of it. > Re Photoshop it from scratch. > Print it big. Print it small. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner >