RE: [Leica] PAW wk29/sl

["Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

Ted,

All very, very good points.  Thanks,

- - Phong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Ted Grant
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:03 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW wk29/sl
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> Steve LeHuray showed:
> Subject: PAW wk29/sl
> > http://www.streetphoto.net/paw2003/wk29.html<<<
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> Hi Steve,
> It's all about "feeling / seeing the neighbourhood" in this
> photograph. :-)
> Good one.
>
> One of the things you do consistantly is not only capturing people in the
> picture, of course quite often the person is the main anchour,
> but it's the
> environment of where it's happening that makes many of them work so
> successfully as a "street photo!"
>
> And many pictures we see from others who call themselves "street
> photographers" is, they think street photography is all about the
> "people of
> the streets!" And shoot too tight without including the environment of the
> street where the people are or what they're doing within that environment.
> Many become a quasi kind of portrait rather than the overall
> scene including
> where it's happening.
>
> Many of HCB's pictures include the "environment of the street"
> with a person
> as part of the scene much like you do.
>
> Keep 'em coming.
> ted
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