From: "frank theriault" > On 5/14/05, Lasse Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like it, Frank. > > Had it been mine I think I would have tried to do something to bring out > > his face a bit and maybe dampened the highlights to his wrist. > > I also think a bit more (dark) space above and to the left of the picture, > > as well as tighter crop to his elbow to the right, would have made the > > picure geometrically stronger. (Does the neg allow for a bit more of this?) [snip] > > But aren't you getting a bit too bourgeois for your own liking lately? <g>) > > Thanks for the comments, Lasse. > What you see is full-frame, so there's no extra space above or to the > left. I agree with your assessment WRT to extra space and a tighter > crop on the elbow. It would make for a more interesting composition.
I guess you mean - real - full frame, if you say so. I was just thinking that usually a lab (or rather their masks(?) ) will crop the frame somewhat (and not always evenly) why you may find surprisingly much more in the frame if you return to the neg. (My film scanner's neg holder does this too, why I occasionally will have to cut off some of the edge of the strip in order to get to the edge of the negative.) > I did burn the wrist a bit in PS, but you're right, it's still too noticeable. > > Bourgeois? Because it's (relatively) sharp? I guess. Yes, that's what I was referring to. > But, jazz is music of the common-folk, born in the bars and brothels of New > Orleans. Yeah, that's what probably attracted me to it and made me start to play jazz in the first place, I guess... (Sigh! If there only were a brothel around here. Then I even might pick up playing again. When we started playing, we'd do it for a couple of beers. Now I would settle for a pair of tits...) > It overcomes the bourgois sharpness of the series of shots. That's a valid argument, Frank. I buy it. > <vbg> Me too. Lasse
