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Subject: [Leica] Things I learned from Ted
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:38:23 -0400
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+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.
> >
> >
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