Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Week 11 Gilbert
From: "jbflesher" <jbflesher@email.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:38:16 -0800
References: <B6DB7BB6.FD23%jbcollier@home.com>

Great call John!

Jack
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- ----- 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
> >
>

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