Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your editor was wrong. On 2020-04-05 11:24 am, Bill Clough via LUG wrote: > Ada Williams was 103 and had caught chicken pox. The only photograph > possible was some kind of portrait. But it also serves as a great > mistake. > One of the first lessons all photographers learn is the first thing you > do > when taking a picture is to look behind the subject. I didn?t do that. > When > the picture was published, one of the editors asked me if I realized > what I > had done to Mrs. Williams. ?You should have lowered the restraint > behind > her. Leaving it up, the shape makes it look as if she was in a coffin.? > It?s a bitter lesson I have never forgotten. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Ada+Williams_+Houston_+Texas+April_+1973+___+01611.jpg.html > > > ?Bill