Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Human Traffic
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:35:58 -0700

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