Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:09:25 -0700 >From: "Ted Bayer" <tedbayer@harbornet.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] critique >Message-ID: <010401c217c4$e04a74c0$cfaa42cf@bayeramd> >References: <001e01c217ba$fc7b7360$39ca88d9@docteurd> > >I like the picture very much for many of the reasons B.D. cited. In >addition, I thought Bernard's mentioned about seeing it b&w was >interesting I agree with B.D.'s comments too In fact at first and quick sight I felt interested by the picture and the light. I copied and opened Photo shop then converted into B/W and increased the contrast by around 25% . Try yourself - I think that little manipulation improves the pic and underlines the ideas of B.D. I think this pic is rather nice composed and the frame naturally 'closes' the photo. According to Salgado's printer it's important to close the pic, i.e. get the edges darker than the main subject in the center - so he often burns a corner or an adge to get the proper result. I don't know if some of you remember a pic by Tina. It was the face of a little girl, one in color (with nice mauve if I remember) and the other was the same in B/W. Tina was asking the better. For me the better was the B/W not because it was B/W but because a white area was cropped on the left edge - so the pic was 'closed'. I don't have the pic anymore but maybe it's still on Tina's site. In Tom's picture (B/W) I really like the dark (fade to black) left edge and all the grey scales in the building. Just my 2 cents (and nowadays the euro is closer to $ :-)) Bernard bernard.degaute@skynet.be - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html