Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PS in looking over the other reactions, i notice that, tellingly, the key word is "nice". We don't get up every morning saying today I want to achieve niceness and make something nice. In my youth, in the U.S., if a woman said you were "nice" it was time to move on; the situation was hopeless. At 30, it turned out, if they thought you were nice and had a good income they would strongly consider marrying you; but at 20 the only thing the word meant was that they had no intention whatsoever of sleeping with you. Vince 2010/5/10 Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com> > Lluis: > > the original version had a narrative, a story, to be seen in it. The > cropped version has a babe. The first is more intelligent and more > interesting as a photograph. She is standing, waiting to get something at > the newsstand. She has detected the camera (? -- that's how it appears) and > she has turned to look with all the calm and all the composure and all the > abiding desire to photographed that such a beautiful woman can be relied on > to have in her possession. Thus, in this pose, in these circumstances, she > is even more beautiful, by *reacting *as a beautiful woman would react. > She has been engaged -- always an electrifying moment with a woman of her > caliber. > > The cropped version, pfff. > > Cropping is good for animal pictures, and flowers; but humans exist in a > more insistent reality, an actual set of circumstances. When Avedon put > them > before a white drop he made an Avedon out of them but those are still > circumstances, still a story: the photographer's story. The crop of this > has > none of that integrity. And insolubly the back of the man's jacket > intrudes. > You can't move the line because you'd have to center her, boringly, and > include part of the stroller behind her. > > All in all, go with the original, which is a real photograph. The other is > meant for a stock agency or a calendar or a weekly newsmagazine and you are > a way better photographer than that. > > Vince > > > > 2010/5/10 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > > Lluis, >> >> The cropped image is very nice. I feel it is a stronger image than >> before. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lluis Ripoll Querol" < >> lluisripollquerol at gmail.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:02 PM >> Subject: [Leica] Se?orita (cropped) >> >> >> >> Following Peter and oliver suggestions, here is the image cropped. >>> >>> Cropped: >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2010040314cr.jpg.html >>> >>> or the first version >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2010040314.jpg.html >>> >>> What do you think?... thanks! >>> >>> Saludos cordiales >>> Lluis >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ >>> http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll >>> Blog: >>> http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >