On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 19:23:48 -0800, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one's just a little experiment. I'd just gotten the 35mm lens for the > Leica, and this is from the first roll of film. The shot was hand held @ > 1/15 sec, film TX ... I was trying to see how far I could push the white > while still preserving some decent shadow detail. This was an experiment > in exposure as well as to determine a proper developing time. > > Rob Studdert offered some suggestions for posting large images without > having an excessively large file size. I still can't match his expertise, > but this image, with dimensions of 900 pixels on the long end, yielded a > far smaller file than I'd been able to generate in the past. Thanks Rob! > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/dreyer2.html >
What strikes me first, is the geometry - all those straight lines, and the cylinders all lined up in the back. The bright counter on the left, along with the ceiling, dominate the photo. The only problem I have with that, is that the couple eating ice cream are sort of lost in the whole thing. They're in the dark corner of the photo (and the ice cream parlour, I guess), and I actually didn't notice them until I'd been looking at the photo for several seconds. Maybe that's not a bad thing, maybe that's what you were going for. I was about to say that perhaps the people should be a bit more noticeable, but hell, I just posted a photo of a dog, with 1/2 the bodies of two humans missing, so who am I to talk? <vbg> I think that the lens was about perfect for that shot. And, the exposure is wonderful. I still can't quite wrap my head around the feeling that the people are almost an afterthought (to me), rather than central to the "story". My problem, I think, not yours. Still, cool shot! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
