Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>>http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/42.htm >>> >>> >From: ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>Jaume Lahuerta wrote: >> >>>What a shame those (table legs?) just above the child's head... >>> >>> >>> ann said:
>>I sure disagree - The legs frame the kid's head and taking the >>legs/posts out is removing something that is really there... not >>in Godders style to do that (nor mine) ... the kid's silhouettte is >>just right. I also wouldn't crop at the bottom.. >> >> GG replies... >I made about seven exposures ... the child (and his mother) were >running about the room quite quickly and were certainly not under my >control so the notion of moving left or right to catch the child at >this point is impossible to imagine doing. The whole sequence of >seven were taken in less than 4 seconds by the timestamps, and then >they were out of the room. I'm glad I had the camera on Continuous >drive mode for once. And I don't know why I did... ;-) > >I chose this frame because of the positioning of child and table, and >the visibility of the illuminated limb of his silhouette and the >gesture in his hand. > ann says You probably know this, but of course I imagined you were clicking away at the scene , as you describe, but you chose this one in the selection process, indicating you (and I) think the placement of the kid works fine... and you like the green but I don't :) :) > Downsizing it for the web has reduced that point >of near-far separation, which I might be able to restore with a >little selective editing. But it is actually exactly what I was after >as I worked on it: the juxtaposition of the hard, sharp objects >against the organic shapes in silhouette. Whether it works for you or >not remains a personal opinion, of course. > >Actually, some of these responses beg a question: How many people >open up the larger rendering I provide by clicking on the image in >the web page? Or are you commenting based solely upon the smaller >rendering in the web page? > > The image I looked at filled my monitor. >>I don't know whether the blue cast is "real" I'd like to se it in >>pure >>black and white, but that is purely a matter of taste >>and I'm betting Godders has already looked at it that way and changed >>back again. >> >> > >Yes, I've made monochrome renderings of others in this sequence but >was not as thrilled with them as I was with this one's intense colors. > >Thanks again! > >Godfrey > > Yup -- good going! ann > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
