Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] two photos of Italy- feedback wanted!
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:57:49 -0400

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.

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