[Leica] IMG: for Walt

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

Not directly, but it was a good referenence that I really appreciated.
So thanks again,
Philippe



Op 24-dec-07, om 02:47 heeft Robert Meier het volgende geschreven:

> Phillipe,
>
> I assumed you had Baudelaire in mind when you named your picture.    
> Les Aveugles is a famous poem from Les Fleurs du Mal.   But you  
> didn't?   The painting is Renoir's Alphonsine http:// 
> www.repropaint.com/Images/Main/renoir.jpg
> So I'm still a bit confused about who you are ascribing the  
> blindness to.
>
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Orlent"  
> <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>
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> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 6:58 PM
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: for Walt
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>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/phorlent/F1000033_001.JPG.html>
>
> 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. :-)
>
>
>
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