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From: Bruce Grossmann <—@gmail.com>
To: bud <—@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:13:07 -0900
Subject: What is the better snapshot?
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© 2013 by Vince Cepeda
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From: Bruce Grossmann <—@gmail.com>
To: bud <—@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:13:49 -0900
Subject: Or this one?
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© 2013 by Uncredited Photographer
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From: Bud Grossmann <—@juno.com>
To: Bruce R. Grossmann <—@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:05:30 -0600
Subject: Re: What is the better snapshot?
Thank you, Bruce, for asking my opinion. The first photograph—the one that follows the Rule of Thirds, the picture in which the man with the turkey is smiling, the image whose composition successfully minimized distractions (evergreen trees, cardboard boxes, passenger in aircraft, letter G in the aircraft tail number)—is, I must say, superior to the turkey-smack-in-the-center snapshot. I consider Photo #1 an excellent journalistic, look-into-the-lens record shot.
I'm glad you phoned to let me know you sent the e-mails. If your local paper runs your photo and mentions the Thanksgiving groceries delivery, I hope you will request a by-line for the person who snapped the shutter.
Love, Bud
P.S. If you get me a release from the owner of the iPhone 4S, from the guy with no hat and bare hands, and from the person who snapped the pictures, I'll probably run your two e-mails (with your photos, unretouched) together with the above commentary as my Words of the Week for December 1. Some years ago I published a two-page lesson called Bud Grossmann's Five-Minute Course in Fine Photography. I've been meaning to put it on my Web site but I've been too lazy to do the coding for the several illustrative photos. Your pair of camera-phone photos provides a Sixty-Second lesson that might benefit some of my apprentices.
Bud G.
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From: Bruce Grossmann <—@gmail.com>
To: Bud Grossmann <—@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:24:32 -0900
Subject: Re: Re: What is the better snapshot?
Thanks for the review.
Pilot is Josh Cisneros, 40 Mile Air Service, Tok Alaska. Photographer is Chaplain Vince Cepeda, (Major, Alaska Army National Guard) using my iPhone 4S, 1/60 sec. at f/2.4 ISO-64, no flash, compulsory. Aircraft is Cessna Stationair 206. Passenger is unidentified and no model releases except mine are available. Photo was taken Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 2:19pm Alaska Standard Time. The shot is looking to the west and the weather was west wind at 8mph, 9 mile visibility, weather light snow, sky SCT017 BKN027 OVC037, temperature 5 F, relative humidity 83%, altimeter 29.83. Sunrise/Sunset yesterday was 9:47AM/3:13PM.
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