Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas - I ordinarily would not have posted any of these but somebody posted a link to street photography today with photos that were out of focus, no eye contact, tilted, that looked like somebody pressed the shutter without looking through the viewfinder or focusing. They were viewed as "art" so I decided to post some "art" and see if I would get any comments. Thanks, Tina On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Tina, > I have to say from the start I like your stuff. However, none of these > work for me as lack of sharpness, rear shots, and no eye contact mitigate > against any involvement in the situation. For me that is. Can't see any of > these agency clients wanting to use them. Of course, I may be blind. As a > personal memento, I can understand where you're coming from with these > images. > > However, and luckily for you, you've proved you can do so much better > shots in most of your past work shown to us. As a buffer against reputation > damage, I'd park these, and any others that you have any doubt about, and > just focus on what works. > > A weak culinary analogy for consideration.... > I cooked sea bass tonight for the first time and didn't eat the heads, or > the tails: my advice is to stick to the meat. You've plenty of meat in your > work. > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> > To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; "Leica Users Group" <lug at > leica-users.org>; > "paw" <paw at micapeak.com>; "seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>; > "Olympus > Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 8:21 PM > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Waiting Out the Rain > > > PESO: >> >> Still raining in Guatemala: >> >> http://www.pbase.com/image/**151976305<http://www.pbase.com/image/151976305> >> >> C&C greatly appreciated. >> >> Tina >> >> -- >> Tina Manley >> http:// >> <http://tina-manley.**artistwebsites.com/<http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/> >> >www.**tinamanley.com <http://www.tinamanley.com> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com