Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:42 AM 7/28/02 -0700, Michael Gerard <geeman1066@earthlink.net> wrote: > You capture a nice moment in the first shot. A tighter crop, just the >three heads, would help focus the photo around the action, which is a >fantastic human moment. Could be straight out of my childhood. Michael, thanks for the comments. Here it is cropped much tighter: New, cropped: http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/italy/siblingrival_verytightcrop.jpg Original: http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/italy/siblingrival_bw.htm It's interesting: They are two different pictures. The original one shows more context--you get better cues that the picture was taken somewhere in Europe. The cropped version focuses on the raw emotion of the situation better. I had the 35mm lens on the camera for the shot, but I remember wishing that I'd had the 50, because I could have gotten a little closer view without the risk of distracting the kids. The original version is cropped a bit from the negative a little, it's almost a 50 view of the 35 shot. Your suggested cropping makes it a 75 or 90 shot. Now a little personal context. I had not yet gotten my contact lenses when this picture was taken. With glasses, I can't see about 1/5 of the 35mm frame on a .72x standard M viewfinder. I've noticed that since I got my contacts, I'm framing 35mm shots much better. But I'm also realizing that I really am more of a 50/90mm kind of guy when I'm shooting candids. My sense of how close it is OK to get matches the 50 better. Or as Mark Rabiner might say, "Fifty is Nifty!" > I love the expression on the gentleman's face here, and the soft >background on the left. I wish the poster wasn't right behind his head; it >detracts, IMHO, from the leisurely atmosphere of the photo. Of course, there >was nothing you could do about that. I very much liked the man's expression, too, that's why I took the picture. The poster (which you can read on the original) is an election poster--I liked the idea of an elderly fellow lost in reverie in a beautiful park, in spite of the intrusion of daily life the poster represents. He's made his own world at that moment. (Besides, I wasn't about to ask him to move :-) - --Peter >Peter Klein wrote: > > > Another couple of PWIFLIs (Picture When I Feel Like It). These are from a > > lovely hill town in Tuscany called Pienza, which I visited on my trip to > > Italy last year. > > > > http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/italy/siblingrival_bw.htm > > http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/italy/seniorbench.htm > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html