Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know I'm going to get unloaded on, but this series does not impress. Far be it for me to say -- world's worst, but I think it needs editing, and somehow, the effect seems very un-Tina like. The light seems very flat, the series is all so "matter of fact" and lacks your usual intimacy. I hate to suggest this, and will probably be booed off the stage, but was the camera making too many of the decisions, does using digital allow too much freedom to push the shutter, is the TLL view less intimate than the rangefinder, is the lens longer than you usually work with. This is not to say that there are not some nice shots, especially when we move into human interaction 38, 14, 27 4718 for example, but I find images like 56 52 4803, 0009, 0007, messy and confusing not really adding to the story. 4743 has an arm in it we could do without. I'm nervous sending this off, so I showed Helen the series without telling her who was the photographer. She was surprised to find whose work it was, and made similar comments to mine. Crowds of people are hard to "capture". Your work usually reeks of intimacy, here you seem more like an onlooker. On 31/12/2005, at 10:32, Tina Manley wrote: > PAW - > > I'm so far behind I don't know if I can all this a PAW! Maybe > AFPEOIAW - A Few Pictures Every Once In A While. > There are 32 here - part of the Families of Abraham project that I'm > working on. Our Lady of Guadaloupe is a huge Latin-American Catholic > Church in Charlotte that has 6 or 7 masses a day - all standing room > only - and all in Spanish. The focus family in this case is the one > with the pretty young pregnant girl. > > Comments and criticisms are welcome, as always. > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/our_lady_of_guadaloupe&page=1 > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair