Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]THANK YOU, Dr. Ted. Critique noted! BTW, neither here nor there, that was a 4x5 field camera with 150mm lens. I took 3 shots. This one has the best composition. I even rearranged the tomatoes a little :-) but don't tell anybody that. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:44 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > "Richard Man OFFERED: > >> Subject: [Leica] ASSGNMT #8 "FALL COLOURS" >> >> Have not played this game before. Hope I am doing it right... >> >>> "Fall Colors" since I am south of the border. >>> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20131107-Scanned-154-Edit.jpg >>> >> > Hi Richard, > I don't think it can get much more "Fall colourful!" Than these well > ripened > Tomatoes! Unless there were more of them? Which I might have looked for? > Simply because there is so many high end brilliant red they just pop off > the > screen. That's a tiny suggestion only. > Dead center of the image just above the tomatoes there is a "bright area" > background > possibility window refection and distracting! This is one of those behind > the main subject we have to watch for particularly when you have such a > high > impact colourful image as you have here. > > Our eyes are quite taken with the brilliant red we sometimes miss a tiny > distracting element in the background. When you have a scene such as this I > do a very close look all around the scene deliberately looking for those > elements. The scene isn't going to go away so a few moments checking the > background can make the difference between a wham bang winner and a > response > of? > " Ah gee whiz too bad he didn't see that bright highlight?" Which > unfortunately takes the image from a winner beauty to... Too bad, close. > BUT? :-( > > In situations like this with lots of "hot lighting and reflections? It's > very important.... TAKE AN EXTRA MOMENT OR TWO LOOKING! > > > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: <tedgrant at shaw.ca> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 10:13 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] ASSGNMT #8 "FALL COLOURS" > > > Richard I'd say it looks like yer right on track! Did you win? I can't >> tell you as yer a week early. But it's lookin' pretty good! ;-) >> >> cheers, >> Dr. ted :-) >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" < >> richard at richardmanphoto.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 4:46 AM >> Subject: [Leica] ASSGNMT #8 "FALL COLOURS" >> >> >> Have not played this game before. Hope I am doing it right... >>> >>> "Fall Colors" since I am south of the border. >>> >>> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20131107-Scanned-154-Edit.jpg >>> >>> >>> -- >>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto