On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:01:11 +0000, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One more comment - not a criticism, because I like the picture, but > something I try to look out for when I take photos. The big 'For > Lease' sign. It's probably the whitest thing in the frame, and so it > tends to pull the eye towards it. But, and this is what I try to > avoid, it is a lot of in-yer-face text that is not part of the real > content of the photograph. > > The problem with text is, you read it and it distracts from everything > else. It assumes an importance that it doesn't deserve, unless it's a > billboard condemning your neighbour, or a contrast between > rosy-cheeked white middle-class people, above a breadline of flood > victims. > http://www.zonezero.com/editorial/diciembre99/photo2.html > > So I do my best to choose a vantage point that avoids intrusive text > because I know that if the text gets in the frame, people will read it > rather than look at the real subject.
Sigh... http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3175020&size=lg There. Satisfied? <sheesh> -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
