Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/10

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Hipshot Street Project
From: "Wesson, Leo W" <LWWesson@pier1.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:44:37 -0600

roll2-0011.jpg is my favorite.  

your experiment reminds me of student projects in which you release the shutter as a response to gesture or some sort of visual stimulus.

also notice that you clicked the shutter in response to a lot of cute young girls...

leo wesson

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> From: 	Johnny Deadman
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Friday, January 10, 2003 12:06 PM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	Re: [Leica] Hipshot Street Project
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Patrick Jelliffe wrote:
> 
> > While I applaud the idea behind the project, it would
> > be nice to see more thoughtful composition and some
> > basic culling.  This seems to be a perfect use for a
> > digital camera.  I'd like to see the edited 10.
> 
> The idea was to remove 'thoughtful composition' so that the choice of 
> composition came down to the editor not the photographer. 'basic 
> culling' is simply editing, which is what this about. some of the edits 
> that have already come in include pictures I personally would have 
> culled on the first pass.
> 
> I am not trying to encourage everyone to take up hipshooting, nor have 
> I forsaken the viewfinder. It's an experiment.
> 
> An edit of zero pictures, if you have honestly looked at them all and 
> can find nothing interesting, is a perfectly valid edit.
> 
> 
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