Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Rob Mason's PAW 2003, Week 2... > >Here is my second offering to the PAW for the year: > >http://www.leica-gallery.net/rcm/image-37730.html<<<<<< Tom Smart offered in response: >> > To me it looks like there is indeed a point of interest - the guy crying, or > scared, or whatever on the far right; the one everybody is looking at. I'd > say it wasn't captured in a way to carry the composition, but I bet that's > the point.<<<< Hi Tom, Not to get into a long winded discussion, certainly without Rob here, but with my humblest apologies, the guy isn't crying, he's looking down at what appears the hands of a woman helping with his life preserver. I could read into the shot... "a crew member." And he isn't the point of the focus, that's my point! Because, the couple are and you can't really see what they're looking at in a meaningful manner. The couple who are in focus maybe kind of looking at him, but more than likely just in front of him, as the "helper person" is adjusting his life vest straps. And if the guy being assisted is the "centre of the photo" he still isn't in focus in any event. Whatever ones attempt to make something out of this picture, it's completely a non-event and my point was to explain to Rob why it doesn't work regardless of either of our points of view. It's far too easy to read things and interpret events trying to make something out of a photograph, than just looking at the content in a .... "does it work or not?" To make it work he should've moved to a better shot angle, possibly a step forward or used a wider angle lens. But at the moment it just sits there and doesn't wash as a meaningful photograph. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html