Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]which lens were you using? doug http://www.ricecracker.net/ On 1/10/03 9:39 AM, "Johnny Deadman" <lists@johnbrownlow.com> wrote: > > On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Alan Weinschel wrote: > >> I got through about four pages and saw nothing remarkable. Is taking >> 300 shots without looking through the viewfinder akin to having 100 >> monkeys bang on typewriters hoping for a novel. It seems so random and >> so contrary to photography as providing for and revealing a unique and >> personal "eye". > > I did it as hipshots precisely so that I wouldn't have any personal > attachment to any particular frame, or any worry about what people > might think of it. However it is not at all random. While the framing > is sloppy to say the least, you are able to grab moments much faster > than by moving to the camera to the eye. It all depends what you are > looking for. My own rules prevent me from giving you a particular > example until the project is over but there are at least four or five > images in there that I am happy about and maybe ten or fifteen that > would make it into a looser edit. Most street photographers work with a > hit-rate of around this order. Anyway the point is not to come up with > great pictures but to discover something about the process of editing. > -- > John Brownlow > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html