Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny Deadman wrote: ><Snip> > If there actually is something there it's even better but it is not > necessary for this trick to work. The subject will automatically look behind > them to see what you were actually shooting. To add to the illusion, you can > look all around you and frame some other stuff up as if searching for > another shot... all the time completely ignoring your main subject, who by > now will be annoyed that you do not find him/her as interesting as everyone > else. Now you return to your non-existent tree, check it out once more, and > put the camera back to your eye. ><Snip> I did that with a deer last May. It was happy when it thought I was mainly interested in "shooting" other things... and went on munching. Mark Rabiner