Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 29, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Steve Barbour said & showed: > > Subject: Re: [Leica] childhood... > > > On Mar 29, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Jim Brick wrote: > >> Great photo, but Ted is correct! And that moves the girl to the left > >> in the frame which adds greatly to the feeling of the moment. > > > Steve offered: > now, here is the crop... > > I like it very much...it feels like a different image... > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/crop.jpg.html > > now for an incredible moment of confession, the image was taken forty > (40) years ago, I have had it in my minds eye, only with the bird, > it is hard to see it any other way. now I have to live with it for > another > forty years this way... > > thank you gentlemen both so much,<<<<<<<<<<<<, > > Hi Steve, > I think this is a simple case of "we are our own worst editors" > certainly > when we get a fixed image in our minds eye! Trust me you are not > alone at > this! > This cropped version is so beautiful in capturing a child's moment of > discovery, it's wonderful. Absolutely no question, the bird was such a > distraction it was killing this beautiful moment. Our eyes were > flying off > the page without seeing the child's expression. > Anyway I'm very glad you could see the error in the original. Trust > me it is > not easy to concede a 40 year feeling of how a picture should look > simply > because you've never seen it might be better. > In your early days I'd bet the thought was.. "Oh gee look how neat > that is! > I caught that bird in flight!" Now the bird is gone you have a > classical > child moment of observation and learning. Good on you. > Cheers, > ted thanks Ted... a great lesson here in the meaning of a photograph...and how to focus the mind... also left vs right brain, the poetic, evanescent, and the more objective approach I think... Steve