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Subject: Re: [Leica] WOW!
From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:48:25 -0500
References: <B97039E3.1A0AE%pablokolodny@mac.com>

Do you get a lecture on all posts?

Pablo Kolodny wrote:

>Tina Manley wrote:
>
>>I don't get it.  The underwater ones are nice but most of the others look
>>like snapshots.  The ones on her website
>>http://www.in-public.com/autiofolio.html  all look underexposed and too
>>contrasty.  Can somebody explain why these photos are exceptional?
>>
>>Tina
>>
>
>
>Hi Tina, 
>
>Sometimes some pictures don't need to be "well" color balanced, "well"
>exposed, "well" composed. Sometimes some photos/photographers are awarded
>for their images, sometimes for their own careers.
>I think this set of pictures is quite good, I like the way she played colors
>adding some extra "issue", I see she expresses herself that way rather the
>"normal" or "traditional" one.
>As photography is a medium it's fine we get how others "see" things despite
>our personal tastes.
>
>What the hell that does have to do with Leica, our beloved Oskar or whatever
>else I really can't get. But that's is OUR problem.
>
>Seeing pictures deliberately "badly" exposed, composed ... is something we
>have to deal with if that is part of the purpose. And I do think this one is
>the case. I like those pictures.
>
>You're asking for explanations, sometimes there's no such a thing but a
>different looking we should have to learn to look at. Some others do express
>other things. And maybe that's a way to go.
>
>Exceptional ? I see nothing so exceptional in there, but others decided it.
>
>Finally, what makes others decide those images are exceptional are persons
>like us, but diverse.
>
>kind regards
>
>Pablo
>
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