Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting - on first glance the second one struck me more. I think at some point I was photographing a reflection of a street in a window and it occurred to me that I was being very cliche. Since that moment I have tended to dismiss that kind of shot - totally my problem. Still, there is something calming about the second image that I like. Dave "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> writes: > Thanks, Adam - I, too, am more taken by the first one than the second, but > the sky doesn't bother me as it does you. But now that you mention it, I > wonder...My monitor is reasonably bright, but what I find pulling my eyes > is > the building on the right, with the early morning sun, and then I travel > down to the couple - and the graphic (oh, those crazy Harvard kids. :-) ) > > Thanks for the thoughtful critique. > > > On 9/19/06 1:38 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing those images, B. D. >> >> I very very much like the first image - I'm always attracted to >> partial reflections and this composition is quite wonderful. >> >> The 2nd image, however, doesn't work nearly as well for me. The sky is >> just too bright - it dominates my attention so that the couple kissing >> is not only secondary but hard to focus on. The tertiary graphic on >> the far right would be wonderful, and should be, but the sky just >> pulls - yanks - DEMANDS my attention and won't release it so I can >> really see the rest of the image. >> >> On 9/19/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: >>> These are "T" related but completely unrelated to my T project - >>> >>> First two images under Personal Favorites on my website - >>> >>> http://www.bdcolenphoto.com >>> -