Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re Chinatown PDF (work in progress)
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:58:16 -0600
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On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012  Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wote:
> 
>> I'm going to print out a few copies of the portfolio to carry with me, 
>> just 
>> in case I got accosted :-) Here's the web version: 
> 
>> http://www.richardmanphoto.com/Portfolio/Chinatown_web.pdf 
> 
>> As usual, comments, suggestions etc. always welcome 
> 
>> Geek notes: images taken with XPan and Leica M9 
> =================================================================================================================================================================
> For me, the M9 photos (or XPan cropped images) are more satisfying than 
> the panoramas.  There are a lot of very dramatic shots from the shadow 
> side. The wide ones I prefer are the high angle kitchen, gateway arch, 
> parade banner, and the end gate.  The others seem to include too much (or 
> in the case of the two picture takers, not enough of them - I don't like 
> their legs being cut off). 

I tend to agree with Alan's points.
(and speaks to why I sold my xPan and all 3 lenses -
I simply very rarely and naturally "see" the world in this format)

Very few panorama photographs actually "work" for me.
I generally see a stronger photograph within the panorama.
There certainly are exceptions
where the frame is composed in such a way
that it can only "be" a panorama.

In this collection the only one that seems to "demand" the panorama format
is the last - the dragons - for me.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist







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