Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, I think that you ought to tell us if they were posed... if not then it's just one of those shots that you take, and accept that you have little or no control over. If it was unposed then you have a photograph of the couple being themselves and, cold or warm, icy or mannequin, it actually captures them at that moment and therein is a story. In anycase the "Baiser a l'Hotel de Ville" was posed so we can't draw many conclusions from it. Peter Dzwig Ted Grant wrote: > Luis Ripoll showed: > >>>> I've posted 2 pictures, and I'm not really decided which one I >>>> prefer. I'll >> >> appreciate your comments, thanks for looking! >> >>> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4176099 >>> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4176094 > > > Look at their bodies in both, they are standing cold and un-affectionate > despite he's giving her a kiss. I mean she doesn't even have an arm > around his neck or shoulders. There isn't any "warmth feel to it." The > vertical line of the bike and the girl's legs are cut in stone.It's > simple things like this that make a major difference in a warm or cold > photograph depicting an "affectionate moment?" >