Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The widest that I've gone down there with is a 25. I had the same idea re: the barge. I recall seeing a telephono shot of a wooden sailing ship in a harbor, and the effect of including the street in that shot was to make the ship look mountainous. I did shoot a lot of 28mm two weeks ago, but in the proofs I always seemed to need to be "closer". Part of the problem was also the amount of slimy mud in that area. I have to wear knee boots to get around in the yards. If things are drier in the future, I'll pull out the 21/4 and try to get some front and back wide angles. 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 8:37 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Another 20 images Perhaps I haven't spent enough time with your images, but I don't recall too many typical wide shots. By that I mean having a significant something in the foreground with reinforcing subject matter rapidly disapearing into the background. Take one of your house on car images, what would it look like with a 21 or wider on top of the car/house with a debris field going as far as the eye can see. Similarly, with the barge that started it all, an ultrawide shot of the gargantuan barge with the little bitty houses next to it. Possibly it might work better with a 500 to 600mm lens compressing everything behind the barge to show the miles of destruction. I am truly sorry to ramble, but your work is important, you have a great start, but the scale of the story is huge and mind numbing. Rambling some more, any people that could add some humanity that grounds what this terrible event truly means. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 2/9/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information