Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PWIFLI: Dogs and small children - Get closer
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:15:43 -0700
References: <000001c37ca5$202d8cd0$6401a8c0@dorysrusp4>

Don

You are beginning to sound like Mark Rabiner.

Jerry

Don Dory wrote:

> Peter,
> Of the crops, this is the one I like best.
> http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/tofino/3-37MomBabySunsetCrop3.jpg
>
> But the important thing would be, which one grabs you?  Then figure out
> why it grabs you, it could be a negative as in the railing really
> bothers me in which case learn free transform in PS to fix this.
>
> In other words, move your art through external or internal criticism by
> going through a process of refining, then getting better.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Peter
> Klein
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:13 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] PWIFLI: Dogs and small children - Get closer
>
> Regarding:
> http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/tofino/3-37MomBabySunset.jpg
>
> Don Dory wrote:
>  > So, why not get closer?
> (and Phong agrees but thinks the light makes up for it, and Afterswift
> thinks I should leave well enough alone)
>
> Better?
> http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/tofino/3-37MomBabySunsetCrop2.jpg
>
> I wish the railing wasn't at a slight angle, but I can't do too much
> about
> that because the film plane wasn't parallel to the railing, and I was
> higher.  I *was* photographing the people, not the ship.  :-)  So
> rotating
> slightly to make it look right on one side makes it look more wrong on
> the
> other.  The maddening thing is that the distant shoreline (cropped off
> all
> of the versions) *is* level.
>
> This resolves the vertical line issue, but I think it's going too far:
> http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/tofino/3-37MomBabySunsetCrop3.jpg
>
> Door #1, Door #2 or Door #3?  The lady or the tiger?
>
> --Peter
>
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Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> (Re: [Leica] PWIFLI: Dogs and small children - Get closer)
In reply to: Message from "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> (RE: [Leica] PWIFLI: Dogs and small children - Get closer)