Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michiel Fokkema showed: > This weeks PAW shows my wife who is watching the horse back riding of > one of our daughters. I could have used a bit more dof but there was not > much light. > > http://home.wanadoo.nl/michiel.fokkema/Fotografie/paw2004/9.html<<<, Hello Michiel, Sorry me old son, it just doesn't cut it at all as it's an exposure and that's it. Actually there isn't anything to make any kind of subject sense. You see here's what happened. You were there, you know what your good wife is looking at, but your picture show's nothing of it or her properly. We don't see her eyes or partial face with an eye illustrating she's looking at something. And in your caption you say: >>>I could have used a bit more dof but there was not much light.<<<<< That maybe the case, but there wasn't a picture to start with, so DOF depth is meaningless. Please understand I'm not giving you a hard time, because quite frankly we, everyone on this list, does the same thing at some time or other. Our "being there, making an exposure, feeling the emotions, the environment of the location, all create feelings" when we squeeze the shutter release that are not recorded on film for others to see. "We" may feel it long after, actually many years after, but it's truly never on film although in our feelings it is. But we the photographer's feel them as though they're vividly captured on film! Hey, we, all of us. I still for over 53 years do it on occasion, usually in family situations but not on the professional side for some reason, do it when I'm photographing some of my 10 grand children I get hooked by what you've attempted to show in this photograph. And mon ami it just doesn't happen, nor did it happen here. I truly hope I've made myself clear and not ticked you off, but in absolute truth this isn't a picture other than in your minds eye! Correct exposure? Yes! Picture with some understandable content? No. Better luck next time, so simply keep shooting your daughter riding, therefore shoot lots and get better. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html