Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] wk21/sl
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:30:29 -0500

> Steve LeHuray wrote:
>>>> Crowded like sardines in a can is what I always feel like at a baseball
>> game. Again I am not sure P picked the best photo for the main or the
>> alternate would be better. Anyway it takes a moment to look at the main
>> photo to see why I picked this one.
>>
>> http://www.streetphoto.net/paw21.html<<<<<<
>
> Hi Steve,
> Interesting photo, however, as sardine packed as it appears and you feel,
> you've allowed the "packed in effect" escape through the "openings upper
> right corner and bottom right of frame!"
>
> In other words,  if it were possible see an unending mass of people edge to
> edge 360, it would appear to be an endless mass. Then the "packed in like
> sardines" effect would be limitless.

I agree with that. As it was I took both of these with a 50, to get that
effect I would have needed the 90, which I did not have with me.
>
> The only other reason I could see why you picked this frame was the lady who
> appears to be looking at you and the kid with the binoculars. right?

Right! But when I selected this I was thinking more about the kid and his
binoculars than the lady looking at me.

And I wish you a GREAT Birthday.

sl
>
> The alternate doesn't do a thing even though the guys are close to you it
> doesn't have the same packed feeling as the PAW with it's open escaping
> corners.
> ted
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>