Hi,

Being pretty new to Leicas having switched over from a G2 I have been shooting plenty and developing my own BW and then scanning negs and trannies to my PC via my Canoscan film scanner. I have uploaded some of my latest efforts and would like some feedback if possible.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=128965

Thanks in advance.

Mark Griffin

-- Mark Griffin (gripper@mark-griffin.com), June 20, 2001

Answers

Beautiful shots, Mark!

-- Steve Hoffman (shoffman2@socal.rr.com), June 20, 2001.

The crosses are fabulous. I love the way the image appears vignetted to dark in the corners. I'd be happy to have that hanging on my walls!

-- Dan Brown (brpatent@swbell.net), June 20, 2001.

Overall, you're doing good.

My top 3 favorites - color portrait of Dom Paulino, B&W of engine driver, B&W of ANZAC vets - good lighting, good composition, very nicely seen - all three. B&W portrait of Dom Paulino (horizontal) has very good expression and composition, but the light on his face feels too frontal and flat. Vertical B&W of Dom Paulino and olive tray - a little too centered and without focus of attention - I'd like to see more olives and less roof (or vice versa), and maybe play around with the olive rake in the composition/foreground.

The architecture shots seem haphazard and unsure of themselves- they either want to be MORE tilted or LESS tilted (IMHO). The orangey church from Western Australia starts to work - good color and light, and enough tilt so that it looks like you meant it that way - and you've actually made E100VS look good!!

I'm also a G2 convert - kind of nice really being in control, ins't it?

Thanks for the show.

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), June 21, 2001.

Nice shots. Favorite Hotham Valley Train. "I can see you in the pic of the VW" I too am a G2 convert. Will never return to auto- everything cameras again.

-- Don M (maldos@home.com), June 21, 2001.

Thanks for the response...

Mark

-- Mark Griffin (gripper@mark-griffin.com), June 22, 2001.

Congratulations, Mark. My favorite: The train as seen from above: Good color, original composition, right on time within the frame. You can listen to the train going by . . . The orange coloured church: Good composition too. Accurate exposure to render beatiful colours. Perspective problems handled in a clever way (bent knees ?) Thanks for the show, Mark. Do it again.

Regards

- Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), June 23, 2001.

Hi,

Overall, I think you have some very nice shots. There are a couple of things that I learned in a Leica seminar with Ted Grant that may help.

a. Shoot from being the shadow of a subject, not in front of it. It yields better contrast and is more interesting. b. Get in as tight as possible (VW picture - right side.) c. Shoot the eyes and focus on the near eye. Also, make the closest point to you sharp.

Anyway, you have many very good pictures. I hope that helps.

Eddie

-- Edward Steinberg (es323@msn.com), June 24, 2001.