Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry I missed that Tina. Good to hear from you again. Dick > On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > +1! > > She said. ;-) > > Tina > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 3:34 PM Richard S Taylor via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > >> As a recent re-joiner myself and a big fan of Ted?s from all the Park >> Square Camera meetings I attended on Cape Cod, let me add my own thoughts. >> >> ?You can?t fix a bad photo in Photoshop,? he would say. ?Get it in the >> camera." >> >> "Shoot from the shadow side.? ?Don?t cut off feet and elbows.? ?Fill the >> frame.? ?In complex photos, make sure there is something simple to catch >> the eye.? A mast coming out of your subject?s head is a definite no-no, >> as >> someone just mentioned, or, as in a recent photo of my son where I didn?t >> pay attention, a tiny women seemingly coming out of a tequila bottle on >> our >> table. Definitely bad?and no fair taking it out in Photoshop, either. >> His >> constant attention to image details makes me scrub every picture for >> extraneous stuff: beer cans, splotches of light, annoying background >> objects, whatever. >> >> These rules are in my head so firmly that in any situation involving >> photography they have a tendency to flow out of my mouth easily, so much >> so >> that I fear becoming a bore about it. >> >> Someone here has already said that he thinks about Ted every time he takes >> a picture. Me too. Ted - you will be in my thoughts and I wish you >> peace. >> >> Dick >> >> >>> On Apr 11, 2020, at 1:58 PM, Keith Wessel <keith at wesselphoto.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> The international Hash House Harriers group would call me a ?Seldom >> Seen? in the context of this list. I have been reading posts on and off >> since about 2004. Being confined to my home I am reading the list more. >>> >>> I am sad to learn that Ted is now in hospice care. To celebrate Ted I >> am starting this thread. >>> >>> One of the things I learned from Ted is to avoid background items >> appearing to be coming out of my subjects head. Someone posted a photo of >> a person on a boat with a persons head centered on the sail mast. Ted >> pointed this out and ever since I have thought of that when taking a >> photograph. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information