Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, I have to weigh in on the genuflection issue. I think the keystoning in your pictures is essential to their character. It emphasizes the higgeldy-piggeldy nature of the shop's interior and contents. If you had bent your knees, two things would have happened to the pictures. First, unwanted foreground elements would have intruded, and might have posed much greater aesthetic challenges. Second, you would have imposed a visual order on the photos that is at odds with the subject matter. The sense of charming clutter would have been diminished, much to the detriment of the pictures' message and visual impact. While I agree that minimizing this effect is in general A Good Thing, we shouldn't fall into the simplistic trap of criticizing it every time we see it. We must always consider visual effects within the context of specific photographs. If we slavishly stuck to rules (for example not chopping peoples' heads off), we'd never see another example of that classic Leica shot "Disembodied Feet Walking on an Anonymous Street"... Paul http://www.chefurka.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html