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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:My First PAW
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 06:40:13 -0700
References: <200206041656.JAA18046@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <02aa01c20c39$45ab0420$58dc6843@hal> <001601c20c48$34ba5300$cdaaa1ac@sonc>

robertmeier@usjet.net wrote & showed:
>>> Subject: [Leica] Re:My First PAW
> I would appreciate any comments:
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=799370

G'day Robert,
Given the exposure and aperture selection look OK, the composition is well
executed, strong foreground use of the of lettering..........

Other than the one error, the camera isn't held straight!!!!! :-(

Yep and I'm already prepared for possibly you or others to come back telling
me it's an "art photo" so therefore it's OK to hold the camera the way it is
here. Nope! And if you did hold the camera in this fashion to create an art
form it isn't well executed either. It's still just crooked.

There is a major difference between "creating art and poor camera handling."

In art, the camera would more than likely be on a much wilder angle and
probably shot with a wider angle lens to create the max effect of
distortion. In this case if it's art, it's by accident of holding the camera
upper left corner down to the left slightly and forward slightly.

The result we see here is probably because of your concentration on getting
the lettering right and not having a peek at the corners of the viewfinder
to keep the camera squared away. Making max use of the minor distortion
created by a 50mm lens held in this fashion compared to say  35, 28, 21, 15
or 12.

You're on the right track OK, tilting downward for distortion effect, but
the bottom edge of the viewfinder should be straight across inline with the
concrete pad separating line as a guide to keeping squared away.

If you go by this again I bet if you re-shoot it with camera squared off and
tilted down a slight bit more you'll increase the impact of the picture by
strengthening the letters even more so.

Hopefully you'll not be one of the people who ask for comments and then
become all ass twitchy because someone actually makes a constructive
comment.

I also realize you may completely disagree with me and that's cool, because
that's life and we all see differently. So in that case please accept mine
as merely a different opinion. Thank you.
ted

Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant


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