[Leica] IMGs: French Accent (Portfolio)

[mitcha at mac.com]

Thanks for the kind words, Jaya and Douglas B.

Douglas - eye contact is good in some pictures, but I wouldn’t make it a general rule for street photography because then a lot of the pictures you shoot will be “street portraits.” If the aim is “documentation" or “depiction,” then the photographer won’t want eye contact in many of the pictures. On internet forums many people write how they prefer to ask the subjects permission before shooting, bout that often leads to the subject posing, which often tends to undermine both documenting and depicting.

—Mitch


> Subject: [Leica] IMGs: French Accent (Portfolio)
> From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 22:07:05 +0100
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> I agree, Jayanand. You can't beat eye contact. The way to a person's soul is through their eyes. Well done on that one, Mitch, and there are others too...Sadly, too many people in photography (including myself betimes) think that pictures from behind work all the time. There's no definite route to the
> soul through that particular hole, but the eyes always work... mostly :-)
> 
> Douglas
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: French Accent (Portfolio)
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> >I particularly like this one:
> >
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/10227777245/in/set-72157647720864997/lightbox/
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand