Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, Thanks for looking and commenting! > Now for the nit pick part! ;-) In the background, right behind the couple's > head is a light with red banner that take ones eye right past them at first > glance, unfortunately once seen, it continues to be a distraction each time > you look at the picture.. I had not noticed the stupid traffic light! This is a heavily cropped picture, on the slide there is a distracting white van on the road above the couple and a person walking by on the other side. I cropped from landscape to portrait to get rid of all that and concentrate on the well-dressed gentleman and the couple. > How do you get away from it at the moment of shooting and not give yourself > away as a "visual distraction" to the couple or old chap with the paper? > > Not likely much, as this is a see it, react, shoot! And damn the > distractions. Given today's PhotoShop the red flag would be easily removed. Yes, but that would be beyond the self-imposed rules I follow (do nothing in Photoshop that I did not do in the wet darkroom). > Even though the red dot is there at the moment, the picture content is > powerful enough a viewer can live with it. > ted Thanks again! Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/