[Leica] Things I learned from Ted

[Richard S Taylor]

Sorry I missed that Tina.  Good to hear from you again.

Dick

> On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> +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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