Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html