Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Vince's basic premise. Further I also see the cropped and original versions as entirely different photographs. They communicate quite different messages; so serve different purposes. The cropped version becomes a candid street portrait; and quite a beautiful one. The postcards serve it well. I do believe it is every bit as "real" a photograph as the much more complex "narrative" original version. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On May 10, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Vince Passaro wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information