Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul wrote & showed: > >Thanks for the constructive critique on PAW #12 > I am starting to get a great Databank with tips, Thanks >Due to a large work load in the coming week I offer you 13 a day early. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/city-street/folder-2677.html > Critique warmly accepted. Hi Paul, The eye is just overwhelmed with way too much happening all over the place without any firm point of interest. It almost looks like a mass of jigsaw bits waiting to be assembled into a cohesive photograph. It might've been better as a vertical, woman out and birds filling a stronger part of the foreground eliminating some of the cutter. Although I like using strong shadow foregrounds where they make a solid foreground element of the picture, it requires building the angle around those shadows to make it work. A few correctional items: A/ get you out of the picture...... your shadow. When you're shooting with the light in this manner, at your back, it's a must to watch for your shadow and keep it out. Unless....... you can make use of it as some element of the photo. B/ the woman out of the frame. I would almost think you didn't see her at the moment of shutter release. However, when picking this shot you could hardly miss her adding to the confusion, better luck next time. C/ going vertical and making shadows stronger, cleaner, filling the foreground and leading into the background. Use of a wider angle lens and lower perspective. Would any of this have helped? Maybe. But it needs a different angle, aperture, wider angle lens, lower to the ground. I don't see it as an easy correction using this frame and working it over. We all get conned by strong shadows at onetime or another. And quite often they so capture our eye and concentration, that unless we take our time and work around them to make a good picture, there's usually one there with patience, the end result is as we see here "confusion and no point if interest." I trust this helps for future use. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html