Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What is it telling us? It looks like she is unhappy and thinking about her situation in life. Maybe, she is thinking "Why did I dye my hair black and hang around with these weird people?" She may also be thinking " If I just stare at the bar and not make eye contact, the photographer will go away." It actually looks a bit posed. Arne will have to answer that question. ;-) Regards, Robert At 03:39 PM 1/8/2002 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: >Sorry, Rob, but I find that when the ashtray is moved that close to the >woman, the ashtray distracts...I'm afraid I find myself looking at the >original image and asking, so? What is this photo telling us, or conveying. >It's nicely exposed, focused, etc., but I'm not sure why I'm looking at it. > >B. D. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Robert G. >Stevens >Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 3:31 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; >leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; Arne.Helme@stelvio.nl >Subject: Re: [Leica] Arne's PAW #2 for 2002 (goth alert!) > > >Arne > >I would have mad it a bit tighter. There is too much space between her and >the ash tray. I did a little photoshop magic to the image and moved the >ash tray closer and then cropped tighter. I tried cropping tighter without >the ashtray and it didn't work. The ashtray sort of anchors that corner of >the image and sends the eye back around to the subject. Without the >ashtray you eye just goes out the white space in the lower right and never >returns. I put the edited version up at the link below. > >http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/paw02edit.jpg > >The lens and film seem to do a beautiful job together. Looks like the 28mm >Summicron-M is a winner. > >Regards, > >Robert > > > >At 08:06 PM 1/8/2002 +0100, Arne Helme wrote: > >PAW #2 can be viewed at: > > > > http://helme.stelvio.nl/paw2002/paw02.html > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html