Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam - They are interesting subjects, at least #1 and #2 are for me, but I think the images might be improved by cropping to force the viewer's eye to look at what caught yours. The streets on either side of the building in #1 and the people in #2 both, to me anyway, take attention away from the subject matter you identified as the focus of the pictures. Thanks for the look. Dick >This is a very strange posting because the images aren't anything >special and yet I like different things about all three of them - all >related to the use of black and white film, in particular Tri X. > >This image was shot from our hotel home across the hotel parking >structure to this building across the street. The old-time fire escape >and the textures of the brick really spoke to me. Printed large >there's a huge amount of detail in this image that the small version >that you see only hints at. It was shot at 1/1000th of a second, I'm >sure. > ><http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/23/TX400-002-R1.jpg> > >The inside of the Long Beach Convention Center spoke to me - the >receding arches of the ceiling, so bright, all these wonderful >gradations. This catches that ceiling. > ><http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/23/TX400-004-R1.jpg> > (snip)