Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Feliciano, Show me the negatives. I think very few photographers even in the day of the great Life magazine had much control over their pictures. Just look at some of the pictures the grain structure is so bad that it had to be a cropped picture. Know his current work is printed full frame, maybe. But that didn't make him famous or great. I think his work goes beyond how tighly he frame his pictures. It's not hard to make false frame lines with out Photoshop. mike gil - --- Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com> wrote: > Recently I was flipping through one of HCB's books > and the thing that I > couldn't get over was how precise his compositions > at the edge of frame > was. Many of these shots were done with a LTM Leica, > which does not have > parallax compensation like the M. Everything was > dead on and it didn't > make a difference if it was a close-up or a wide > shot and the man > printed the edge of the frame to prove that he > hadn't cropped the shot > to tweak the composition. I wonder of he used an > external viewfinder or > shot straight through the standard eyepiece. Either > way it's pretty darn > impressive. > > feli > > "B. D. Colen" wrote: > > > > Sorry - the first part of this message was posted > by another LUGer - the > > second was my response..b.d. > > --- > > > > > None of this is meant to deny, etc., HCB's > enormous talent. It is simply to > > point out that the importance of the question of > milliseconds of shutter lag > > may be pretty meaningless in terms of real world > photography. Yes, when one > > is talking about fast moving sports photography, > milliseconds may count - > > but then I would contend that anyone shooting > competitively in that realm > > today who is not using a high-speed motor drive is > in serious trouble to > > begin with. > > > > B. D. > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________________ > > When your head is full of dust and tofu it's easy to > smile all the time. > -Ethan Ormsby > ________________________________________________________________________ > Feli di Giorgio * Compositing Supervisor > feli@d2.com * DIGITAL DOMAIN * (310) > 314-2800 ext.3074 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html