On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:09:48PM -0400, frank theriault wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > This evening I scanned some of the pictures I got of > > Frankie. Technically, and even aesthetically they are, well > > snapshots. But it's funny how some of the photos that have the most > > meaning to you are just that, snapshots. > > I think these are more than just snapshots. Too bad about the > technical quality (or rather lack of quality) of them; I think > they're a wonderful chronicle of that day's event and activities.
Thanks. I don't think that anyone on this list is tempermentally of taking what most people would consider "just snapshots". Certain aspects of composition, looking at the background and so forth become ingrained as to be reflex, rather than conscious, so that where a non-photographer may just look to make sure that the subject is in the frame, we'll make at least a first order attempt to compose the shot a little beyond that. I do still have the negatives, and it's quite possible, and even probable, that were I to scan the negatives, I'd get back a lot of the detail that was lost when the prints were processed at the little photo stand in the HDB across the street from my flat. I do hope that eventually I'll be able to hand my negaitves to someone and get at least decent scans, preferably cross referenced to the notebook sheets that they;re stored in so that I can find the ones that I'd want to make good scans of. And that all of that would be at a price I could afford. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
