Nice frame Frank! The words in the top right corner distract me a little and the coins toward the right are a bit shiny too, but overall I like it. I'm quite keen to find out why he's where he's at too.
:) Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 6:22 AM Subject: First LX pix! > Hi, > > Well, I've actually gotten a couple of rolls back, but this is the first one > that I thought worth blowing up: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1956319 > > Scanned from 8x10. When he saw my camera, this fellow asked if I wanted to > take a photo of his pennies. I said "sure". He didn't know that with the > wide lens, I was getting him in there, too. > > We talked for several minutes, I threw him some coins (keeping in mind that > unlike Americans, we do have $1 and $2 coins! <g>), and I was off. He > seemed to be such a gentle man, I wondered how he came to be in the > situation that he was in. Next time I'm in that part of town, I'd like to > give him a print of his "art". > > This was the first time I've used the 19mm Vivitar for street photography, > and it is very different, but fun! You really have to get in their faces > with this one. Unfortunately, this lens, while fairly linear, does get soft > around the edges - I don't remember the aperture, but it was likely around > f8 or f11. > > Lemme know what you think, if you're so inclined. > > thanks, > frank > > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca > >
