Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW/wk12/sl
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:05:29 -0500

> Steve:
> 
>>Pardon the low quality of this photo, the result of trying to handhold with
>>a 50mm lens wide open at a 30th and having had too much coffee:
>>
>>http://www.streetphoto.net/paw2002/paw2wk12.html

Eric writes:
>
> If the subject were anybody other than Ted Turner, would you still have
> selected this as your image for the week?

No, probably not. But that is the price of celebrity, being shown in a
unflatering way.
>
> It works for name dropping.

OK, I am a name dropper. In the past I have photographed Burt Reynolds,
Goldie Hawn, Gregory Peck, Mary Tyler Moore, Charles Bronson, James Garner,
even Tiny Tim, just to mention a few. I will have a picture of Arnold
Schwarzteneger in 2/3 weeks. In the meantime here is Sharon Stone, looks a
bit better than Ted:

http://www.streetphoto.net/photo_of_the_week/wk26.jpg

>  I don't think it works as a stand alone image,
> though.  It's blurry.  His eyes aren't in focus.  His eyes are obscured by
> shadows.  There's some weird Easter egg shaped bokeh going on in the
> background.  I'd choose any of your previous PAWs over this one in a
> heartbeat.

Yes I agree with all your points, but Ted is a celebrity who has lived life
to the hilt and that is the main point of the picture. To me CONTENT is much
more important that a perfectly focused, exposed and composed boring
picture.
>
> Eric
> --
Thanks for the input Eric.

sl

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