Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the LHSA convention in Portland, there was a photo "critique" where anyone dumb. . . er, *brave* enough to have their slides publicly critiqued by a couple of veteran pros could step up to the plate. The judges were none other than Ted Grant and Sal DiMarco. The most common criticism, applied to most of the slides, was that the photos didn't home in on their subjects. Ted was saying things like "Well, you could have moved over here," "maybe gotten closer," "used a longer lens," "I think the light would be better from this angle." And Sal would say: "There's too much! Lookit this! You got this over here, you got that over there. It's awl-ovadaplace!" --Peter Klein "Awl-ovadaplace" in Seattle At 08:05 AM 6/14/04 -0700, "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron@concentric.net> wrote: >Sal was the perfect gentleman, always helpful and with a fascinating >storehouse of tales. If you never heard him tell stories of >photographing Lyndon Johnson...while trying to twist his Philadelphia >twang into a Texas drawl....you really missed something.