Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I love it like on the primary. Intimidating shoes project well into a moment of indecision. I like indecisive moments, maybe because they linger long enough for you to see them. Dante "Marshall, C.R." wrote: > Week 8 went up over the weekend. > > http://my.voyager.net/~cmarshal/wk082001.htm > > My alternate this week is the same picture as the original, only reversed. > My scanner creates a flipped image that I have to reverse. In some ways, I > like the reversed image better. The line of shoes does a better job of > leading the eye to the shopper in the alternative. Her view leads you back > to the shoes. It seems more active somehow. In the original, she leads you > to the shoes, the shoes lead you out of the picture, and that is the end of > the story. > > I would also be interested in comments on cropping. I put her eyes about > 1/3rd of the way down and left some space behind her, centering her in hir > 1/3rd of the frame. The shoe racks take most of the right 2/3rds. > > I have been sitting around reading books about lighting and composition. We > will see if they make any difference in the pictures over the next few > weeks. > > Comments welcome. > > C.R. Marshall > http://my.voyager.net/~cmarshal/pow2001.htm