Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, I agree with BD: I must me improving ;-) Cheers B. D. Colen writes: > It is one of the best photos you've ever posted - and anyone who told > you it was a bad posting doesn't know a photograph from a cave painting! > I don?t know how I missed that one, but it is fabulous. And all that > color says is "night time with some artificial lighting." It's no where > near as "off" as the shot under discussion. > > As to the point of posting - I've always figured we post so that we can > get some feedback - positive, negative, and hopefully constructive - > from somewhere other than from the mirror. While we may not agree with > the comments, ultimately any that are honest may end up being helpful. > > But as to the guy in the caf? - as I said early on, I see it as a miss > and not a hit. A guy sits at a table looking down. So? Compare that to > Bill Clough's classic, "Madison," where a guy looking down also occupies > the right hand side of the frame. In Clough's image, as in this one, we > can't see that the guy is looking at a newspaper. But in Clough's photo > the left hand side of the frame is occupied by an angelic Shirley Temple > look-alike glancing off to the left, out of the frame. So one looks at > that image and immediately wonders, 'WHAT is going on here?' The caf? > man photo, color aside, lacks anything to make one - well to make me, at > least - want to ask that question. And without the question, there's > nothing there. > > But let's suppose for a moment that we could see the newspaper. Again, > we have to ask why we care about this particular guy reading the > newspaper? Is there something else in the photo that provides some > interest, some humor, some irony, some pathos? As I think I wrote > before, had there been a sign somewhere behind the guy with words to the > effect of "No Newspaper Reading Allowed," that would give us something. > But as a photo of a guy reading a newspaper in an orange caf?.... > > B. D.