[Leica] Encounter on a Saturday afternoon

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Thank you for your explaination, Don. I'm always interested in HOW
people see. I have so much to learn! I like your idea of tilting the
lens for a different alignment with regard to the axis of the petal!
For some reason it didn't even OCCUR to me to explore the image in
that fashion! Sorta like the old dictum to "turn around" when you're
intent on an image.

Thanks!

Adam


On 10/8/05, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
> Adam,
> What I like about your cosmos is the narrow band of in focus with the mass
> of color and form surrounding. The point of focus is indeed off center, but
> to my eyes anyway there is not enough or too much gray on the right to
> balance the image. Reflecting on your image, I would prefer cropping a lot
> of the gray on the right so that it becomes a square image or almost. Then
> the gray although reduced balances the color.
>  Contra wise, had you shifted your lens a little to the left and tilted so
> that the plane of focus was a little more parallel to the petal that is in
> focus then there would be somewhat less oof color on the left and a little
> more gray on the right. I believe that even if the point of focus was
> actually moved more to the center, the dark color on the right would 
> balance
> better. We are talking small amounts of movement here.
>  Also, please don't take the above as saying you don't have a good image.
> You are the creator, it is your vision. What I am trying to convey is how
> someone else sees the image so that you can tune your vision. Sometimes 
> that
> means you say that suggestions are utter rubbish, and sometimes you say; 
> ah,
> that is how it looks to others.
>  Thanks for taking a listen and it is fine to talk about gentle rains in 
> the
> LA area. :)
>  Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>  On 10/8/05, Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Don I hate to be dense but I'm not certain what you'd suggest I
> > change? Did you want things somehow slid to toward the right edge of
> > the frame?
> >
> > The way I thought about it was this: since only a tiny fraction of the
> > petal will be in focus, and since I had the gray background (it's the
> > road) I figured that I'd push the color also to the left so the
> > in-focus part was along the left-third boundary. Which puts virtually
> > all the color in the image on the left third.
> >
> > That was how I composed it. I know I lack formal training and so I'm
> > VERY interesting in understand how to make the image better.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > who won't be mentioning You Know Who - opps I mean You Know What again...
> >
> > ab
> >
> >
> > On 10/8/05, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Adam,
> > > First, your theory of the cosmos is very nice. It seems a little too
> > > centric, but I have no other suggestions. As to the earth moving, see
> > what
> > > happens when you talk about it?
> > > Don
> > > don.dory@gmail.com
> > >
> >
> >
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