Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the "college level" guys is in court ordered AA; this is the livingroom of the house. The older female is the single mother of the lovely lad with the beer bottle hanging out of his mouth. He gets up at 3 a.m. To work on his grandfather's lobster boat, and when he gets in in mid-afternoon, behaves as these photos suggest. No, no cropping. Normal adjustments made in photoshop and changed to black and white. As to your not knowing they are studio setups - one can say that about virtually any photo, taken anywhere. ;-) On 7/10/05 6:02 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > Isn't this a bit over dramatized? It appears to be a group of College > level > guys messing around in an apartment, with an older female having a > discussion in 1 shot. We do not know that the shots are not studio set > ups. > We also do not know the shots were not taken on an 11x14 camera or a > Brownie > Hawkeye or a Canon digi-whatever. > > I suspect the lady that took the shots was not too worried about "getting > jumped"....in the vicious sense..... She is generally shooting from the > floor level up to the subjects. > > The shots are nice, and evocative of a certain period of photography ( the > 30"s?). Yes, well composed ( no cropping is assumed in that comment) and > technically well done. But "it".. I am not certain. I would like to see > more of her work, and this was a good teaser for me.... > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > What are you talking about, Philippe? And what successful documentary > photographer of the last 40 years, working in that kind of fluid situation, > shot or shoots with 2 1/4 and has the luxury of revisualization? This isn't > shooting on a movie set - it's shooting in a situation where the > photographer has to spend as much time previsualizing whether he or she is > going to get jumped, as he or she has time to spend on previsualizing the > shot. > > B. D. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information