Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kenneth Frazier showed: Subject: [Leica] NYC trip, and others > Here's the latest in catching up....recent trip to NYC via Union Station > in New Haven, and others. > > http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r<< Hi Ken, "Eye motion!" ... It bounces to three different elements.. "the girl, the sign and the doughnut sign "OPEN" through the doorway to the left. And there isn't anything in the photo indicating she's waiting for a train or that she's even in a train station. So sometimes adding a caption isn't worth the time it takes to write it. Your pictures should stand on their visual impact alone!..... that is unless it's so dramatically different it requires words so a viewer understands what the photographer was trying to capture or create. Even then the photo must have visual attraction that makes some sense, no matter how outlandish that might be at times. Your number 8 photo... "Sun bathing on Broadway." is an example of where words work because the subject looks like he's "catching some rays" and the words tie right in with the stance and head held slightly back facing into the sun. The girl IMHO just doesn't cut it in the same manner. Besides I think you were suckered by the Light into thinking there was a picture here more than there was. Trust me "light" will do that to you lots of times no matter how many years one has been shooting. The reaction is... "Jeeeeeesh look at the light?" Yeah right... it's light and that's all, it isn't a picture. No different when looking at a sunset that others are oooohhing and aaaahing about it's beauty and you're standing there enjoying it, but not taking pictures. The next thing you know the people are asking ..... "Hey it's beautiful why aren't you taking pictures?" And if one understands light, sunsets and sunrises, often they are beautiful, but they don't make a beautiful picture. The trick is knowing what needs to be added or angle changed to make the beauty of the setting sun turn it into a beautiful photograph. ;-) ted