Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jesse Hellman jotted down the following: > The second is of the interior of the only great building to have > survived intact from ancient times. Janson in his History of Art said it > is impossible in a photograph to capture both the sense of vast space > and spiritual awe one feels there. Do you think this picture does it (a > bold question!)? I was aware of the woman on the left looking up, and > took the picture when the man stepped into the light. The picture seems > very spiritual to me. I printed it 20 inches high. TMax 400. Sense of space, yes. Spiritual awe, no. At least, not as a 400 pixel high image on my computer screen. Printed 20" high, maybe, but then I can't tell that from the computer screen. On the screen, everyone in the picture is too small to see, other than their relation in size to the building. But I do like the fact that it's slanted. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | People don't like to be parameters email: howard.390@osu.edu | in an equation. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------