Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lluis: the original version had a narrative, a story, to be seen in it. The cropped version has a babe. The first is more intelligent and more interesting as a photograph. She is standing, waiting to get something at the newsstand. She has detected the camera (? -- that's how it appears) and she has turned to look with all the calm and all the composure and all the abiding desire to photographed that such a beautiful woman can be relied on to have in her possession. Thus, in this pose, in these circumstances, she is even more beautiful, by *reacting *as a beautiful woman would react. She has been engaged -- always an electrifying moment with a woman of her caliber. The cropped version, pfff. Cropping is good for animal pictures, and flowers; but humans exist in a more insistent reality, an actual set of circumstances. When Avedon put them before a white drop he made an Avedon out of them but those are still circumstances, still a story: the photographer's story. The crop of this has none of that integrity. And insolubly the back of the man's jacket intrudes. You can't move the line because you'd have to center her, boringly, and include part of the stroller behind her. All in all, go with the original, which is a real photograph. The other is meant for a stock agency or a calendar or a weekly newsmagazine and you are a way better photographer than that. Vince 2010/5/10 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Lluis, > > The cropped image is very nice. I feel it is a stronger image than before. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lluis Ripoll Querol" < > lluisripollquerol at gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:02 PM > Subject: [Leica] Se?orita (cropped) > > > > Following Peter and oliver suggestions, here is the image cropped. >> >> Cropped: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2010040314cr.jpg.html >> >> or the first version >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2010040314.jpg.html >> >> What do you think?... thanks! >> >> Saludos cordiales >> Lluis >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ >> http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll >> Blog: >> http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >