Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mitch, Perhaps you could say something about why this particular scene caught your eye. My first impression is that the print is flat, nothing interesting or compelling about the lighting, and, if anything, it seems a bit underexposed on my monitor. Second, I don't see any especial subject here, or, rather, you're asking me to choose the subject from at least three possibilites: the chap on the motorcycle, the chap tending his vegetables (or goosing the Buddah, hard to say which), or the Buddha himself, none of which is sufficiently well defined to draw my immediate attention to it. Finally, there's no real gestalt here should your intent be to capture a sort of "environmental moment." None of the disparate elements come together in any sort of mutually reinforcing way: no strong graphic element; no striking interaction between the folk in the scene. In part this is because you don't seem very engaged with them. In this case, you're using the 28 as though it were a 50, when the scene cries for you to stick this lens virtually into the cyclist's face (to fill a significant portion of the frame) or to move to longer focal length, if, indeed, this is your subject. I stand by David Douglass Duncan's famous axiom: "First get close, then get closer," which is damned intimidating, but this scence cries for it. Otherwise this is a snapshot of no particular distinction. Chandos - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Mitch Alland Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:39 PM To: leica-users Subject: [Leica] Please critique Bangkok picture I forgot to mention: M6/28mm Elmarit at f/4 or f/5.6 on Ektachrome 100S. - --Mitch/Bangkok - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html