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Subject: [Leica] The Party
From: chandos at cox.net (Chandos Michael Brown)
Date: Sat Jul 9 14:07:48 2005

Spot on, Philippe; many thanks!

I've posted the corrected version.

http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/PAW/party02.htm


Cheers,

CHandos

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Philippe
Orlent
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:38 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Party

Maybe for party02 a little less magenta in the midtones and highlights?
->
selective color.


> From: Chandos Michael Brown <chandos@cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:27:20 -0400
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] The Party
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, Feli and Phillipe.
> 
> I made a decision here (perhaps the wrong one) to frame this wide,
> because the starkness of the deck contributed to the intensity, I
> thought, of this tense pre-party moment.
> 
> Most everything else I did, I did comparatively close, as in these:
> 
> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/PAW/party01.htm
> 
> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/PAW/party02.htm
> 
> I've been sitting on these for nearly a year, because I shot the whole
> bloody thing with my then new and largely unfamiliar E1 with the wrong
> white balance, and it's taken this long for me to figure out how to
> correct the color (hurray for CS2!).
> 
> In the event, I've got about forty images that I can now convey to my
> host (better late than never, I suppose).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chandos
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of feli
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 1:41 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The Party
> 
> Two's a crowd?
> ;-)
> 
> 
> I think Capa's maxim applies to this one. Get closer. Much, much
> closer. I probably also would have
> shot it from the other direction, so the woman's face was visible. Or
> I would have shot him looking at her from over
> her shoulder, adding a little mystery. Probably would have shot it
> portrait and let his tattooed
> shoulder stick out past her body.
> 
> 
> feli
> 
> 
> On Jul 8, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Chandos Michael Brown wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/PAW/party.htm
>> 
>> 
>> Comments, derision, etc.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> CHandos
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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