Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wote: > >> I'm going to print out a few copies of the portfolio to carry with me, >> just >> in case I got accosted :-) Here's the web version: > >> http://www.richardmanphoto.com/Portfolio/Chinatown_web.pdf > >> As usual, comments, suggestions etc. always welcome > >> Geek notes: images taken with XPan and Leica M9 > ================================================================================================================================================================= > For me, the M9 photos (or XPan cropped images) are more satisfying than > the panoramas. There are a lot of very dramatic shots from the shadow > side. The wide ones I prefer are the high angle kitchen, gateway arch, > parade banner, and the end gate. The others seem to include too much (or > in the case of the two picture takers, not enough of them - I don't like > their legs being cut off). I tend to agree with Alan's points. (and speaks to why I sold my xPan and all 3 lenses - I simply very rarely and naturally "see" the world in this format) Very few panorama photographs actually "work" for me. I generally see a stronger photograph within the panorama. There certainly are exceptions where the frame is composed in such a way that it can only "be" a panorama. In this collection the only one that seems to "demand" the panorama format is the last - the dragons - for me. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist