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Subject: [Leica] Image criteria - a Luddite view
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:14:19 -0800
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Jayanand Govindaraj offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Image criteria - a Luddite view


>>Ted,
In other words, the only important thing is the emotional impact. Right?<<<
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Hi Jayanand,
"I'm going to say, "YES!!" As first step! However that doesn't mean one 
should not have everything else that goes with making an interesting 
correctly exposed and processed  photographic print! Shouldn't be the best 
possible!" 

It all works hand in glove without all the techie crap thingies overriding 
the points that make a "grab your heart and emotions photograph!"  I mean 
surely it doesn't take some of these people two pounds of brains to 
understand everything works together to make the magic happen? It isn't one!

There are all kinds of parameters to a make a smashing great photograph, if 
you severely drop the ball on one of them it can or could destroy the 
overall impact.

The key to success is.... "DON'T DWELL ON EVERY TIDDLYWINK ITEM 
INDIVIDUALLY!"  See - shoot and it's in the can with the least amount of 
thought process. And yes some types of assignments require a bunch of other 
stuff that really has nothing to do directly with going.... "click!" You 
eventually learn these things when working as a professional and earning 
your livelihood! 
It's not just one thing that makes it brilliant! No matter how one wants to 
break them down in some kind of order! 

cheers,

Dr .ted 





In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Image criteria - a Luddite view)
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