Picking Lice With The 70-200 VR2!!

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Shiva Das wrote:

Atget's photo of Notre Dame de
Paris, 1925, has a very dark foreground and the cathedral in the
background almost luminous in its translucence.

http://www.masters-of-photography.co...dame_full.html

As with most of his photos taken while employed by the Commune de Paris,
this one exhibits technical issues that didn't bother him. SPecufically,
the front standard of his camera was raised higher than it was
"supposed" to, yielding the strong vignetting in the two upper corners.
Also he wrote the photo serial number directly on the glass plate (lower
right in photo). These are the things that would drive many people nuts
and try to address with retouching.

Different years, different equipment, different expectations. Atget
clearly and on more than one occasion said that he believed strongly
that photography had nothing to do with art. And yet he produced such a
great body of art...

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:49:48 -0400, Shiva Das
wrote:

In article ,
"Peter" wrote:

"tony cooper" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:20:33 -0400, "Peter"
wrote:


good stuff snipped

When I link to photos in the "Street" photography forum I participate
in, I leave them as-shot as far as intrusive background. In that
group, background stuff is quite acceptable that would be criticized
here. We are expected to shoot scenes as we see them and not to go
for posed shots. We can edit for contrast (most shots are in black
and white) and other "normal" adjustments.

This shot was well-received in that forum, but would be roundly panned
he
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Other/...7_W7ACa-XL.jpg


Tony, that shot is hilarious. I love the fact that almost everything in
the mage has a brand name or logo written on it (Chanel sunglasses,
Macanudo cigars, etc.) It reminds me of the documentary on R. Crumb,
where he says that San Francisco is still pretty much like it was way
back in the "Mr. Natural" days, except that "Everyone is walking around
wearing tee shirts with corporate logos on them. And no one besides me
thinks that's weird!"

Thank you. That's Park Avenue in Winter Park, Florida...where the
rich and stylish go in this area to sit at an outside table and be
noticed.

The other thing about your image is that although the woman on the right
is over exposed, that's one of the reasons I love black & white -- huge
density differences can work just fine.

Here's another Park Avenue shot of two people all caught up in each
other. Not.

http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Other/...4_FrHte-XL.jpg

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

Here's another Park Avenue shot of two people all caught up in each
other. Not.

http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Other/...79284_FrHte-XL.
jpg

I bet they're texting each other. And Ms. Nosey on the far right is
trying to read the guy's phone...

"tony cooper" wrote in message
news

Here's another Park Avenue shot of two people all caught up in each
other. Not.

http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Other/...4_FrHte-XL.jpg


I can think of two titles:
"Young love after the blush"
"A text in time"



--
Peter