Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1! She said. ;-) Tina On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 3:34 PM Richard S Taylor via LUG < lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > As a recent re-joiner myself and a big fan of Ted?s from all the Park > Square Camera meetings I attended on Cape Cod, let me add my own thoughts. > > ?You can?t fix a bad photo in Photoshop,? he would say. ?Get it in the > camera." > > "Shoot from the shadow side.? ?Don?t cut off feet and elbows.? ?Fill the > frame.? ?In complex photos, make sure there is something simple to catch > the eye.? A mast coming out of your subject?s head is a definite no-no, as > someone just mentioned, or, as in a recent photo of my son where I didn?t > pay attention, a tiny women seemingly coming out of a tequila bottle on our > table. Definitely bad?and no fair taking it out in Photoshop, either. His > constant attention to image details makes me scrub every picture for > extraneous stuff: beer cans, splotches of light, annoying background > objects, whatever. > > These rules are in my head so firmly that in any situation involving > photography they have a tendency to flow out of my mouth easily, so much so > that I fear becoming a bore about it. > > Someone here has already said that he thinks about Ted every time he takes > a picture. Me too. Ted - you will be in my thoughts and I wish you > peace. > > Dick > > > > On Apr 11, 2020, at 1:58 PM, Keith Wessel <keith at wesselphoto.com> > > wrote: > > > > The international Hash House Harriers group would call me a ?Seldom > Seen? in the context of this list. I have been reading posts on and off > since about 2004. Being confined to my home I am reading the list more. > > > > I am sad to learn that Ted is now in hospice care. To celebrate Ted I > am starting this thread. > > > > One of the things I learned from Ted is to avoid background items > appearing to be coming out of my subjects head. Someone posted a photo of > a person on a boat with a persons head centered on the sail mast. Ted > pointed this out and ever since I have thought of that when taking a > photograph. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>