Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guys, and I thought I was the only one who wasn't "trendy" enough to like the later stuff. There are flashes of inspiration amongst them but not many. Personally I liked the ones of London and Wales - as you might expect; the shots from the tram and some of the ones of the 56 Democratic convention. In particular I was struck one of a group of politicians in full flight on the podium, and in the LH corner is a pool of calm - Jackie Kennedy. Just a moment, but wonderfully caught. Peter Dzwig Ted Grant wrote: > B. D. Colen said: > >>> One of the >> >> best examples of his eye is the photo in The Americans of the New >> Orleans bus/street car, in which each bus window is, in itself, a framed >> photograph. That is one of those photos that forces me to wonder whether >> he really saw all that in a split second; whether he saw it on a >> subconscious, rather than a conscious level; or whether he saw it on the >> contact sheet.<<<<<<< > > > Hi B.D., > I'd put money on your last choice, he saw it on the contact sheet!! I've > seen this picture several times and there's too much happening for your > eyes to really take it all in at precisely the moment the shot was done. > > He may have seen something like ..." wow look at all the people > ..."click"... in the windows." Then when he looked on the contact sheet > he was more than amazed it turned out as well as it did. It's > "photographic reaction luck" never the less. This doesn't in any way > lessen the value as a photograph. > > ted > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >