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Re: [OM] Wow, is the 35/2.8 really this good?

Subject: Re: [OM] Wow, is the 35/2.8 really this good?
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:30:55 -0800
On 2/23/2011 8:40 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I meant to add that I love this shot despite the fact that it violates one of 
> my key rules for portraits which is that folks should generally be shown 
> looking into the image rather than out of it.

To me, that's 'cause it isn't a portrait. :-)   I think of a portrait as a 
photograph where there is no story beyond 
that told by the subject, clothes and perhaps props. Here, there is a rich 
story, and that the man is looking towards 
imagined others expands more than if he were looking at the camera.

> Just goes to show that rules are made to be broken.  But this would be a 
> dramatically different image if it weren't for the fireplace or if the fire 
> wasn't burning.

Which is a good part of what makes it a story.

Storybook Moose
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