On 5/5/05, UncaMikey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love it! The angle of the framing contrasting with the angles of her > arms, the look on her face, just right. The only thing that I wish > were different is that the person on the right would have held their > drink down, eliminating the white glare of the cup, so that the frame > would be mostly dark except for the dancer. > > That looks like my Lowepro Nova Mini on the left -- but I don't > remember being there, and I don't have a suit like that. Larf! > > Frank, now that I have come out of lurkerdom, it's best that I be up > front and admit, I like your work very much. Just the sort of shots > I'd like to take. >
Why thank you, Unca! I wish that the damned cup weren't there either, not so much because of it's "cupness" (it was a party, after all, and people do consume beverages at parties), but because of it's brighness. I tried to tone it down a bit, but not too much. I should only go to parties with black cups <vbg>. I forgot to mention in my intitial post that this was a "we don't need no steenkin' viewfinders!" shot, so the framing was sort of accidental. As well, if I could crop, I would, but I'm so bad at it, things tend to look better full frame. I'm not being some artsy HCB snob (well, maybe just a bit <g>), I just really don't feel comfortable with how I crop (much to the dissatisfaction of some here <LOL>. Anyway, thanks for the nice words. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
