Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] PWIFLI: Dogs and small children
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:30:06 -0400

Peter,
Your second image:
http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/tofino/3-37MomBabySunset.jpg

is the beginning of a really good shot.  It's just that the image is so
centered with not much else going on.  So, why not get closer?  If the
image is the setting sun or the approaching docks then include that in
the image by getting closer and shifting to the right.  If the image was
of the two with that marvelous light then why not make it a vertical,
move closer, and get a little lower so we don't see them from a dominant
viewpoint.  That is a way of saying shoot from eye level for intimate
portraits.

You get good marks for seeing a good scene and recognizing fabulous
light, and even more credit for having a camera with film in it with the
sense to push the shutter release: now think through the second shot and
what you want to say about the scene.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/tofino/3-23DeanDogs.jpg

http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/tofino/3-37MomBabySunset.jpg

Fuji Reala 100, M6TTL, 50mm Summicron.  The first was taken in the shade

while waiting (3 hours!) for a ferry from Vancouver Island to the 
mainland.  Probably f/5.6.  The second was taken on the ferry just
before 
we docked, taken literally with the last rays of the setting sun.
Probably 
f/2 at 1/60 or 1/30.

Film was Fuji Reala 100.

- --Peter Klein
Seattle, WA


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