Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/05

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Subject: [Leica] RETROSPECT 72
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (CartersXRd)
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 14:26:56 -0400
References: <CABAowZ62i3oxXZXZtKx3uXYe7PZnbcCdYEBvYeijJwOOFHcALg@mail.gmail.com>

take care, but NEVER doubt the truth and power of subliminal composition 
choices

ric arter


> On Apr 5, 2020, at 2:24 PM, Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>   Ada Williams was 103 and had caught chicken pox. The only photograph
> possible was some kind of portrait. But it also serves as a great mistake.
> One of the first lessons all photographers learn is the first thing you do
> when taking a picture is to look behind the subject. I didn?t do that. When
> the picture was published, one of the editors asked me if I realized what I
> had done to Mrs. Williams. ?You should have lowered the restraint behind
> her. Leaving it up, the shape makes it look as if she was in a coffin.?
> It?s a bitter lesson I have never forgotten.
> 
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Ada+Williams_+Houston_+Texas+April_+1973+___+01611.jpg.html
> 
> 
> ?Bill
> 
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