Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, thanks for your healthy remarks. :-) First : was there a way to shoot it vertical ? Yes, it was shot vertical. Why? instinct. I have now posted the near original shot (slight crop on the right hand side to get down to 35mm format. http://tinyurl.com/2w27cw Technically the problem was that the wall was much lighter than the statue, I measured light spot on the statue, my mistake, and not. I have also asked Philippe my tireur the questions you so aptly put. Here are his answers this morning: Second : why crop? Instinct, plus the doctors' parking plates - I may have been too lazy to dub them off in PS, he said. Third : Why mutilation of the statue? I probably needed an angle to have the face and the (cell?) bars as a focus to give strength to an ordinary plain shot of a Christ. He added he had had to fiddle quite a lot with light settings to get that result out of LR and PSE, and would probably never be able to repeat it on the larger full version :-( I hate him for that. Thanks again for your nice help and suggestions. Philippe and I are really sorry for further mutilating the crucified, and also for making the photographer almost cry. Amiti?s Phx Ted Grant wrote: >Philippe showed: > >Subject: [Leica] PAW : Phx's 10th > >PAW 10 is up at : > >http://tinyurl.com/2r6ue8 <http://tinyurl.com/2r6ue8%3c%3c> << > > > >Hi Philippe, > >May I ask why you didn't shoot this vertical? Or if you did why you didn't >post it? > >And as beautiful as the light is and the over all look, you cut the legs off >as well as the left hand in the upper right corner? > >The light is marvelous, also the angle for best effect, but it's the missing >body parts that's killing the major effect this photograph could've had. > >Maybe there wasn't room to back-up or any number of space restrictions. Or >you didn't have a wider angle lens to avoid the cut off! But definitely a >vertical would've helped I'm sure. > >If you have time would mind explaining what happened. Thank you. > >There's such wonderful potential here for a fantastic photograph with drop >dead lighting and angle, it almost makes me cry to see it in this chopped >off fashion. > >ted > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >