Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All good arguments, Adam. However...:-)...Their feelings about the church pews and the spiral stairs had nothing to do with art school bias - they actually liked both quite a bit. Their feeling was that they were so far removed from everything else in the group of 40, and from what I shoot, that they really didn't belong in the 20. And that, as Paul Harvey says, "is the resssst of the story." Thanks B. D. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Adam Bridge Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:07 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] 20 Discards Okay - I'm going to argue for the removal of image #5 - the baby in the incubator being viewed. I like the IDEA of this shot a lot but for it to fit into your current collection it should be crystal clear and the baby is not. Viewer and subject need to be sharp for this image to be included. image #6 however is a wonderful image and suffices. In its stead I would place image #9 - church pews shot from above - which is a wonderful composition and which appears to make wonderful use of the camera's full dynamic range. I also am taken by image #12 (boy laying on concrete bench) although I'm far less strong about this than I am about the church pew image. I also like #20 (traffic light in snow). If I were to replace these two images in your portfolio I would remove #14 Portrait of Man in black. This just doesn't work for me. I like one of the discards better. And I would remove #7 Hand hovering over preemie in incubator because the tiny hand and finger of image #10 is far more powerful. I suspect their very art school credentials provide a bias against the church pews. It is, after all, static. There are no people. But it is a WORK of people in a place of devotion, filled with structure and light and shadow which is, after all, what religions are about. So those are my alterations and the reasons for them. I todder over to the corner now and drool in private. Adam On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:08:21 -0500, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > Okay, a few of you asked for it, and I'm crazy enough to take the > risk... Here, once again, are the 20 final selections to be included > in a slide show at an Olympus event at the ICP - > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album154 > > And here are the 20 discards that my son and daughter - both art > school-trained photographers - discarded - > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album163 > > Did we make any major mistakes? If so...why? :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information