On 7/5/06, Igor Roshchin, discombobulated, unleashed: >Reading some news on Reuters web-site, I saw this photo: >http://today.reuters.com/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx? >type=topNews&imageID=2006-05-07T163934Z_01_N05403243_RTRUKOP_0_PICTURE0.xml >http://tinyurl.com/l98u6 > >(from this new article >http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx? >type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-07T163941Z_01_N05403243_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH- CIA.xml >http://tinyurl.com/s4d7m ) > >I was surprised that the Reuters was satisfied with this photo where >one person is out of focus, and that the photographer didn't use >DOF more properly. The object is not sharp (on this photo). >(I don't want to start a politically-charged thread/flame related to >You-Know-Who, so, please no political comments.) > >It's hard to say what photographer's situation was though. >Am I being too cirtical here? What's your opinion?
Hi Igor, I think the photographer wanted to direct attention to the man on the left of frame, leaving enough detail with the man on the right to be identified. It's a fairly common way of guiding attention in a shot. I don't think it's a case of you being too critical. It's a subjective judgement and it either works for you or it doesn't. The picture editor at Reuters thinks it does. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
