[Leica] PAW 11 - Lee Hermann

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Lee Hermann offered:
Subject: [Leica] PAW 11 -

> Dear LUG,
> It is time for my latest PAW which is found below.  I apologize that this 
> photo was taken a couple of weeks ago.  I have three rolls of film shot 
> last week still in three different cameras and am too cheap or poor after 
> buying a new lens that I shall wait till they get to the end to develop. 
> I hope someone enjoys.  This is a beautiful automobile, which will 
> probably never see the open road again.  It's surroundings are interesting 
> at least.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Lee-Hermann-album/Parked_in_the_MoMA<<<<<<

Lee mon ami,

Nice looking car. So why did you just do a nothing snap shot leaving some 
human hanging on the left side? I mean if you couldn't get him out of the 
way when you made the shot, surely you could've got rid of him by cropping 
before posting.

Obviously you were really taken with the vehicle so why wouldn't you have 
bent your knees for a different angle, got closer if at all possible,, or do 
something to make it more than merely an exposure of a red car?

I mean you've seen lots of imaginative photography posted here and comments 
made about lower angles, tighter, cropping and many other minor suggestions 
to improve ones pictures. So I can't understand why someone would just look 
through the viewfinder and go click at something they obviously admire.

This was an opportunity to make a very interesting photograph of a very 
special automobile, so why didn't you apply yourself?

yep I know I'm not mincing my words with a tough ass critique, actually I'm 
being very kind compared to what I started out with.  But sometimes it's 
exactly what's necessary to get people to think and see before they push the 
release.

Don't just look at the car, anybody can do that. But what did you see when 
you were looking? Anything other than a red car sitting  in a building?

ted