Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The Flag without the Dux
From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:46:16 -0800

I'm with Ted, keep the ducks. but they are both good images!

> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:29:12 -0800
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The Flag without the Dux
> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:05 PM
> Subject: [Leica] The Flag without the Dux
>> Don Dory asked re: Sonny's Flag and Ducks shot:
>> 
>>>>>> I would like to see the one without the duck cropped in to the flag
> as I think  it would make a thought provoking abstract.
>> 
>> Don, here you go.  It was the first in the series, and the ducks had not
> come to stir the ripples up.
>> 
>> Flag Sans Dux
>> http://www.sonc.com/flag.htm
>> and for comparison, here's those patriotic Dux again:
>> http://www.sonc.com/flag_dux.htm<<<<<<<<<
> 
> 
> Hi Sonny,
> I have no doubts about the ducks make the picture as they add something that
> the just the reflection doesn't have,  "life."  Even if they are ducks.
> 
> They also give a perspective one can have a better feeling of the
> reflection. I also think the slightly wider angle on the scene itself is a
> better composition.
> ted
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>> 
>> The flag was  huge, maybe 150ft. stretched between two big crane trucks on
> the East
>> Bank of the Cane River.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Sonny
>> http://www.sonc.com
>> 
>> y
>> 
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