Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, Thanks for your commment. In principle I agree with you but in this case i thought the reflection of her eyes in the window and the horse in the background would make a picture. But if you don't see it, it certainly failed. Best regards, Michiel Fokkema Ted Grant wrote: > 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 > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html