Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW - Week 1 - SlideOne
From: John Straus <Mail@SlideOne.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 22:42:19 -0600

on 1/5/02 8:09 PM, Steve LeHuray at icommag@toad.net wrote:

>> http://SlideOne.com
>> 
>> Self Crit: I can only think of a few words for this shot. It's ok, fills the
>> frame, interesting angle. Would it be better if the woman was looking at me
>> through the mirror or would eye contact make any difference, better or
>> worse?

> Actually I find this kind of shot interesting, using your own reflection n
> the image usually forces people to linger to figure out what is going on.
> So, I like this image. For my last years PAW I did it 3 or 4 times--but
> don't overdo it.

I rarely take any reflection shots with myself in them. This one I felt I
needed to just because it worked with mutiples of bodies 2 of me 3 of her...

> Also you and everybody else starting the PAW this year should think about
> identifying yourself in the header, like:
> 
> wk1/john straus or wk1/js
> 
> As it is many new PAW people are just putting PAW-Week 1 in the header which
> starts getting pretty confusing for us viewers.

Very good thought. Will next week.
- -- 
John 
Chicago, IL 
http://SlideOne.com
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