Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like your week 30. so cool and relax >From: Allan Wafkowski <allanwafkowski@mac.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW - Weeks 30 and 31 - Allan >Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 05:39:57 -0400 > > >>>week 30: >>> >>>http://photocritique.net/g/s?00izpn >>> >>>week 31: >>> >>>http://photocritique.net/g/s?00izon >>> >>>Allan >>===================================================== >>Week 30 looks like an ad for colour film, a real eye catcher. >>Hardly fair dual posting anything with week 31, it was bound to eclipse >>any >>rivals. It looks more like a painting than the ones in week 30. Brilliant! >>An eerie surreal feel to it. >>If I had taken it, and I wish I had, I would spend forever ruing the >>missing >>left foot. >> >>Graham > >Thanks for your comments, Graham; I appreciate them. I've been >floundering. I enjoy your carefully colored, carefully composed shots (and >you can certainly count me among your supporters), but my attempts at >restrained purity of color and tone have not been successful. Only recently >have I discovered why: I'm an oaf. I don't think in restrained colors nad >tones. I gasp for breath from artistic excitement when I encounter one of >those overly colored 1930s post cards. If there happens to be a >misalignment of color registration, so much the better. These two images >mark the first time in a good while that I felt comfortable about what I've >posted. In the past few days I've been able to articulate to myself that I >like overly painted colors on photographs because they take the image one >step away from being, well... a photograph, and become an impression. > >The foot? I cut the foot off to imply the guy moving into the scene, but I >refuse to think about it! > >Allan > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html No Archive _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html