Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW wk5/sl
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:58:28 +1100
References: <20020201093455-a01050001-224f03fc-1012-010c@10.0.1.37>

>On 2/1/02 at 11:50 AM, icommag@toad.net (Steve LeHuray) thoughtfully wrote:
>
>>  Pigeon Lady feeds the pigeons:
>>
>>  http://www.streetphoto.net/paw2002/paw2wk5.html
>>
>
>I like the pigeons in flight - but the most important part of this photo, the
>woman actually feeding the pigeons, is lost in the background clutter. Because
>she is in profile and not isolated from the background the strong lines formed
>by the park benches are almost lost. My eye travels back and then just sort of
>wanders around because there's not quite enough of her to make me ponder so I
>end up looking at bird wings, which while fascinating in themselves, 
>don't make
>a strong enough photo because they are too far away.


Exactly my impression

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In reply to: Message from Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com> (Re: [Leica] PAW wk5/sl)