Shel, You are giving us a one man course on photography here in your comments! I appreciate you sharing your point of view and feel similar about this photo. Regards, Bob S. <<This photo has been on my mind for a week, and I've been vacillating about making a comment. It's certainly a nice, sweet memory, photo (as was noted in another comment), perhaps even ideal for putting in a family album of snapshots. However, I find it disconcerting that we don't see what is being photographed by Paul's girlfriend. Perhaps there's a little of it showing, but a better shot would have been to pull back just a bit on the zoom so the entire "thing" that your girlfriend is photographing is also included in the shot. There's clearly a small bag of something - perhaps nuts or bird seed - in clear view. What kind of little creature is being fed and photographed. Including it (or them) would still allow a nice memory, but you'd also have a better photograph. Feininger suggests that the more fascinating the subject the less observant the photographer. He described a session on nude photography in which students were so focused on the model that they ignored the background. The pictures included students, light stands, electric wires, and the instructor, amongst other distractions. This photo is similar, as perhaps the photographer, engrossed as he was with his girlfriend, failed to consider including a little more in the picture. So, as a personal memory, it's probably "good enough", but as a photo that tells the whole story, it's a failure. -- Shel Belinkoff >> - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
