Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great call John! Jack ____________ - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@home.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Week 11 Gilbert > This the first time I have weighed in with criticism of a Leica-User's > photograph. It is only because I feel that you missed a stunning photograph > by just a few feet. I apologise as I know all to well that hindsight is > 20/20 and because I am not sure that I would not have seen it at the time > either. The photograph in question is: > > http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/wk11a.html > > If you had framed it so that the elderly lady was not the horizontally > central figure but the shuttered door/window was, it would be much more > powerful and evocative photograph. I do not know how large the shuttered > door/window is but if it could have been completely included it would have > added a marvellous frame within the frame effect. The elderly lady then > would have been positioned off to the left, walking slightly uphill, no > longer really a part of the frame, and soon to be exiting. If I were you I > would stake this place out until she comes back! Without her, there is no > photograph. > > John Collier > > > From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net> > > > > A couple of random snaps from Greenwich Village: > > > > http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/wk11.html > > > > Comments welcome > > > > Gilbert > > >