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Subject: [Leica] Not my usual subjects - and in color
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Sep 19 12:32:26 2006

Ouch! And actually most of it isn't reflection, but view through window and
some sort of construction safety net/screening. :-)


On 9/19/06 2:15 PM, "Dave Mason" <leica@dmason.net> wrote:

> 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
>>>>  -
> 
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