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, I take exception to your comments to Eric who took exception to your less-than-well-focused Ted Turner shot, former husband to Jane Fonda, daughter of deceased actor Henry Fonda, who made his last movie with his daughter Jane, and thus paved the way to family harmony on his deathbed. How so, you ask? Well, I just reread what you said to Eric, and it now seems as if I don't really have an issue with you at all. But I do with Eric. Eric, Steve's shot was a candid portrait--in this case, a candid celebrity portrait. Portraits, candid portraits, and candid celebrity portraits are well accepted forms of photography. I like Steve's Ted Turner. It divulges something about the man that a few here have expressed surprise about. Steve has shown us something about Turner that we didn't know. That's good portrait work. Allan On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 08:05 PM, Steve LeHuray wrote: >> 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. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html