Hi Lasse, I just saw your post today, I havent' had too much time to read the list thoroughly lately...
Thanks for your comments and suggestions. I'm not sure I like the cropping you suggest, but I agree with you regarding the contrast. I was agitating too much those days... j On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Lasse Karlsson wrote: > "San Francisco, 9/11/2001" by Juan Buhler > > Along with the title, the two bearing elements of the picture are the > eyes of the girl looking into the camera and the fragment of the > newspaper spelling "Centers' collaps...". > Focusing is accurate and so is the use of the narrow DOF. The scene is a > contrasty one though and one could of course say that the burned out > highlights (like the left cheek of the girl) represents a problem from a > technical point of view, but this is not of prime importance to me. > However, there is a somewhat busy surrounding of (parts of) heads, faces > and shoulders etc. I did a tighter cropping of the picture (like an inch > down the girl's hair, up to the upper end of the black shadow of the > news paper, leaving an inch of the head to the right, and roughly down > the middle of the head of the girl(?) holding the paper), and I kind of > liked this cropping too. > Anyway, the picture is a well captured glimpse of how many people (all > over the world I guess) received the news of Sept. 11, like in not even > knowing what to make of it all. > > Thanks, > Lasse > - > 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 . > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan J. Buhler | Sr. FX Animator @ PDI | Photos at http://www.jbuhler.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 .
