[Leica] IMG: for Walt

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

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Comments appreciated and
thanks fors looking,
Philippe



P.S.:
1) indeed, Hoppy, these are low res Fuji Frontier scans and they  
produce horrible grain aliasing. I get most noise out with NeatImage  
+ Smart Sharpen, but they still suck.
I just don't have the time to scan them myself. That Minolta I have  
is a great 35mm scanner, but it stands there, unused most of the time.

2) About the bottom left hand in 'Les Aveugles': I didn't see it when  
I made the shot. I noticed it on the scan, but for me, it did not  
distract enough to clone out. One looks to the lighter top zone of  
the image anyway: light attracts.
Second reason why I left it in, is because it's the hand of a 4th  
person, even if at first sight it might look as the right hand from  
the girl. Just the kind of enigmatic detail that I like and that, if  
it gets noticed, might add to the viewing experience.

3)  'Les Aveugles' is indeed an hommage to the painting. The  
combination of the title and the image itself convey what I wanted to  
express with it, although 'les Jalouses' (as suggested by Philippe  
Amard's wife) would have been a great title, too

4) It is also somewhat constructed, and as Ted intelligently noticed  
with all his shooting experience: shot in a corner. If you're a slow  
focuser -as I am- you learn to look for advantageous spots where an  
intresting image (with some interaction) might produce itself. Most  
of the interesting situations that I see are missed because of this  
'slowfo'.

5) Thank you for the beautiful poem, Robert.

6) About 'Face ? Face': thank you for the positive comments. I had to  
crop part of the scan. It seems like I often make the same mistake:  
the final image is always wider than the one seen through the VF. The  
wider the lens, the more: I made a lot of 15mm shots, but few remain.  
Proof that it needs a lot of practising, as some have mentioned before.
I chose not to B&W it, because I loved the combination of the blue  
and the greenish grey in the reflection of the slightly frozen water  
surface.
Kept my feet dry, though Geoff ;-)

7) About 'Framed': thanks also for the positive comments. Michiel  
gave a wonderful interpretation to it: it's about the entrapment of  
the couple.
Which for me is proof enough to conclude that it works. :-)