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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 14:18:09 2006

Be harsh! Be mean! (Not that you were) And above all, be honest. :-)


On 9/19/06 4:29 PM, "Dave Mason" <leica@dmason.net> wrote:

> 
> Sorry - I think my critique came off sounding harsher than it was
> meant ;)
> 
> Dave
> 
> "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> writes:
> 
>> 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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Replies: Reply from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Not my usual subjects - and in color)
In reply to: Message from leica at dmason.net (Dave Mason) ([Leica] Not my usual subjects - and in color)