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Subject: [Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Another 20 images
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Feb 9 18:21:24 2006

I've got 100 rolls of Tri-X and 100 rolls of Agfa 400. I'll keep plugging
away at it. The one thing that won't happen is that I would run out of
subject matter.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don Dory
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:08 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Another 20 images


Jeffery,
I think that you have not found a great theme yet.  Your photos are
generally quite strong in documenting destruction.  There is a randomness to
them that Slobodan mentions.  I think that for you, shoot a hell of lot more
film, let your subconcious take control, but try to think about what is
attracting you to a particular scene.  Only by knowing what is drawing you
in can you concentrate on that aspect.

For example you have a lot of crushed cars.  The wide establishing shots
help to set the scene, but are there closer images that show the muck in the
car, or the real damage to the car from the house, or just the idocy of a
house sitting on a car that the wide shot does not cover/demonstrate.

Or perhaps, with fifty plus contact sheets in front of you, you can start to
edit down to a vision; or create a new shot list once you have a better idea
of the whole.  The place is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 2/8/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> This is the last of the shots from the five rolls I scanned this week, 
> beginning at:
>
> http://www.400tx.com/9th-41.html
>
> Comments and suggestions appreciated.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
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