Agreed. My daughter visited this morning. The little guy is her son. She hadn't seen the photo for several years. She requested a print. That's the real test. That generation seldom asks for prints any more.
gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Don Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > George, honestly I think a photo like that defies and and supersedes any > technical issues. Technical perfection can sometimes be sterile. > > [email protected] wrote: >> >> Message: 12 >> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 09:19:41 -0500 >> From: George Sinos<[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> >> Subject: PESO - Waterfight! >> Message-ID: >> >> <CAHd=7rfoiCVQPGW7N=j=od3ekhxojcjetgfrfjp3rpban58...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> This is one of my favorite photos. Taken long ago with a Spotmatic. >> >> I missed the focus. They ran from a brightly lit part of the yard >> into shadow and I didn't react fast enough so the original was >> underexposed. Just think, if I had the fancy auto-focus, >> auto-exposure camera of today it would be be a technical masterpiece! >> Well, probably not. More likely it would be mis-focused and poorly >> exposed in a different way. >> >> I scanned it from a 13 year old faded slide, cropped it, tried to fix >> the exposure, and cloned out a bunch of junk that was cluttering up >> the yard. >> >> Anyway, as technically poor as it is, this photo has always been and >> continues to be a favorite because of the content. I'm going to make a >> small print. It will make a nice addition to the family photos that >> hang on the wall. >> >> <http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/8/5/waterfight> >> >> gs >> >> George Sinos >> -------------------- >> www.GeorgesPhotos.net >> www.GeorgeSinos.com >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
