Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 3/14/2006 10:49:19 A.M. Central Standard Time, tedgrant@shaw.ca writes: Sonny showed: Subject: crowd shot http://www.sonc.com/crowd_shot.htm<<< Hi Sonny, First re-action? And I hate to say it to an experienced photographer like yerself, however mon ami........ You focused in the wrong place!!! :-( I know I may well rue the day saying that when you get one on me, but I find all those out of focus people in the foreground just too disturbing! / distracting! I'd have focused on the near people and let everything drop away from there rather than reaching part way into the crowd in an out-in-out areas of focus. The out of focus folks in the near foreground create a visual distraction, that if they were in focus then dropping away to the complete background it would've made the crowd look even greater. OK old buddy come back. ;-) ted --------------------------- Sometimes I like to play with shots that are not perfection. It gets even worse: this is a crop from the right side of the frame. So, not to save it, but to find the picxture within, I decided to break a few rules. What I saw when looking at the negative was that nothing was truly sharp, but there are several enthusiastic people along the periphery of the scene, a sleeping baby, some almost bored. So I was framing the whole thing with the more enthusiastic fans who were out of focus. Make sense? Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish