Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bill harting showed: Subject: Re: [Leica] I'm getting married she explained >> We went out to lunch. I'm getting married, she explained. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM1a >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM4a >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM5a >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM7a >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM8a >> >> and our gracious hostess: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM9a Hi Bill, A good set of photographs indeed, certainly capturing an exciting moment in this young lady's life. And if they were all crispy Leica sharp you'd have lost the exciting news this girl is explaining in her excitement and hand movements. Every picture doesn't have to be ticky tacky crispy sharp to be good, some can stand a slight slow shutter speed blur. After all don't we deliberately use slower shutter speeds sometimes in sports to capture the action motion? No difference here in her motion, particularly when we know she's excited about getting married. It actually adds to the emotional feeling of the pictures. Good for shooting it in this fashion, although I assume it was a low light scene and you didn't have much choice but to use a slow shutter speed. Others might have said .... "oh I can't shoot this she moving too much!" Or worse, used a damn twinkie flash and blown away all the excitement of the girls actions. >The pictures are not all sharp. She was an animated subject > who refused to pose, or slow down. Something about the excitement. The > restaurant was dark, I was shooting at probably 2.8 at a 15th, I don't > remember (it was last week, after all). When I printed them yesterday, to > my > eye some of the not-quite-sharp results contained enough personality to > become keepers. http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM4a is closest to > being sharp.<<< Quite frankly for my money you did a damn fine job capturing the exciting moments of this conversation. And certainly the girls excitment. ted