Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Philippe, thanks very much for the suggestions!! I suspect this is something that Sonny alluded to also. I will try to do as you suggested. Currently, especially when it comes to photographing people (besides my immediate family), I am still at the stage of "quick, grab a shot and lets hope I don't get yelled at." Photographing friends are a good practice in that sense since they won't yell too loudly, if at all. Thanks again. At 09:08 AM 12/1/2005, Philippe Orlent wrote: >Hi Richard, >Any shots taken 3 to 5 foot from the left so we see their faces a bit >more? And get a less distracting right part of the background? Lower >POV, too, maybe? Crop the hair at the left out? Or PS it away? >I guess that what I'm trying to say is: you seem to have an eye for >situations with a lot of photographic potential and that beg to be >explored photographically, >but very often your posting just isn't there yet. This said in my >very humble opinion. >So I was thinking: would it help to make more photographs of each >interesting scene you discover, develope and contact print it, leave >it for some time then (so you'd forget the actual moment you took >them, and look with a more objective eye to the result) and then see >which ones would pop out on the contact sheet? >Plz consider this as a well meant suggestion, because I know that >editing your own work is always difficult, and because I notice you >truly like cameras, lenses and making photographs. So don't take this >a an offense. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)