Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Hugh -- The first one's the winner here, it's a good capture of the light & I think shows you know what to look for in finding available light. there's some good rule of thirds composition going on but on the whole I think there's a lot of real-estate not put to the best use. It's lacking a bit in context, though the scarf is good at placing us. But the chair's uninspiring. (Your mileage will vary with this, out there someone is going "Sweet Barking Cheese! They have a Glidemaster Secretary 45 in Nue Black! with ripstop covering"). When taking a photo ask yourself, consciously at first "what's the subject of this photo? What elements are in this place that I can get in the frame to help the subject of my photo and what ones that aren't helping can I remove, through placement of my feet, angle of my lens, lens I'm shooting with or other means at my disposal?" -- eventually your subconscious will take this over and you'll frame things a particular way but you won't know why. In this your subject might just be the tea and the window light, or it might be the tea and a person or the tea and a room -- that's up to you. It may be the subject is "tea and office chair" -- but I don't know that's very compelling. It might very well be "tea and reflection in book-case glass" in which case, move in with your feet, look at reflections, look at colors, paint with your frame. my .02 which is worth just about that -- hope this helps, kyle On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Hugh Thompson wrote: > On a trip to Qarabagh, in the country north of Kabul today, we visited the > office of an English language school, where we had tea: > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Hugh+Thompson/Afghanistan_001/Tea+for+one+or+tea+for+two++004.jpg.html> > > and > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Hugh+Thompson/Afghanistan_001/Tea+for+one+or+tea+for+two++005.jpg.html> > > Hugh > > C&Ss most welcome > > > "Keep cheerful and smile, sometimes it is all you have" > > hewthompson at mac.com > Kabul, Afghanistan > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information