Thanks, Rick. The background is already plenty burned. I could burn it a bit more, see how it looks.
Thanks for the comment! Cheers, frank On 23 August, 2015 4:16:42 PM EDT, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >As Mark said, the background puts the sax player in context (though it >-is- ugly). One could try burning in the street by a stop or so, which >might preserve the context while being less distracting. > >Rick >http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > >On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: >> That is an excellent pose! The background doesn't bother me - puts >him in >> context. >> >> On 8/23/2015 2:20 PM, frank theriault wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure how much I like this one. It's sooooo close. >>> >>> This guy (and the drummer) ~were~ quite good. First attracted my ear >>> with strains of Dizzy Gillespie's ~A Night in Tunisia~, and he >>> continued to play lots of Miles and mid-fifties late bebop stuff. >>> >>> BUT, the light was horribly harsh, and he kept moving from the light >>> into the shadows. That moving also made it hard to get him and the >>> drummer in the same frame without (to say the least) very >distracting >>> backgrounds. >>> >>> Unfortunately this photo has one of those horrid backgrounds, and >he's >>> in front of the drummer, but this was by far the best pose he "gave >>> me" all 15 or 20 minutes I listened: >>> >>> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2015/08/come-blow-your-horn.html >>> >>> I waited to catch it again, constantly moving about to keep things >>> nicely framed, but that pose never happened again. So this is it. >Hope >>> you enjoy. Comments welcome. >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> frank >>> >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and >> follow the directions. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
