Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you very much for yopur opinion and your version, I really like it. I was preserving the shadow of the girl, but I think your crop gives a more powerful image. I'll do this new version, Saludos cordiales Lluis El 20/09/2009, a las 17:31, R. Clayton McKee escribi?: > Quoth the Ted Grant : > >> Lluis offered: >> Subject: [Leica] Se?orita Backlight >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1009002.jpg.html >> >> Hi Lluis, >> Oh so close! :-( Now given that nobody else stepped into the frame >> before you shot, you should have let her take a couple more steps >> and she >> would have had a complete body shadow behind her and the picture >> would've >> been perfect. instead of a cut off body! :-( > > Best approach, yes.... > > but there's also the possibility of cropping the 'dead space' at left > and bottom. (It wouldn't be dead space if the full shadow were > there, but since it's not, it is.) > > And you wind up with something akin to this: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rcmckee/other/L1009002x.jpg.html > > > It's a street scene, this way, playing up the "following" aspect and > adding questions, and it changes your original storyline for the > shot... but I think it works. > > YMMV. > > -- > R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com > Photojournalist rcmckee at rcmckee.com > P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 > Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell number on request > The only guidebooks worth reading begin with the phrase > "When you get to the end of the paved road, continue..." > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Lluis Ripoll luisripoll at telefonica.net http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll Blog: http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ http://www.lrmusic.es