Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've shot from the hip, so to speak, with a Yashica T4 (which had a neat little viewfinder for it). I think that for subway shots or those like below when you don't want to attract a lot of attention, shooting from the hip is good (as long as you can tell what you're aiming at). With a Leica, I probably wouldn't try it with lenses longer than 28. Jeffery At 06:20 PM 1/12/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hey- > >Permission aside, there seems to be a generally negative attitude towards >shooting "from the hip" (or basically without raising a camera to your eye). >What's wrong with clandestine photography? I'm in the middle of a >documentary project on student EMTs. I have permission from the whole class >and the instructors. Some of the students, however, clam up and act funny >when I raise my camera (even my Leica M6 which is so small, so quiet, "looks >like a toy", etc. etc.). Here are two VERY preliminary photos which I shot >without raising my camera. The first one is full-frame, the second is >cropped: > >http://www.drbphoto.com/leica/l6/ > >I still have several weeks of shooting left, and as I get to know my >subjects better, hopefully the tense ones will relax in front of the lens. >If they don't, I have no qualms about pressing the shutter while the camera >is around my neck, on the table, while I'm pretending to screw with the >settings, etc. Am I wrong? > >--Dan > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:10 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] As The World Turns > > > > Austin 747 > > > > Don't ask me that question, I didn't bring up Starbucks. Security > > classified places aside, I take the pictures if I am allowed to go > > there. > > > > Jerry > > > > Austin Franklin wrote: > > > > > Jerry, > > > > > > I wasn't aware that "corporate policy" dictated legality, or even >customs? > > > Besides, how do you know the student didn't ask Starbucks for >permission, > > > which in fact, may have been the point of the "exercise"? It gave them > > > experience on asking for access. > > > > > > Austin > > > > > > > BD > > > > > > > > First you say that you have never done that, then you encourage > > > > your students to do just that. Isn't there an English word for that, > > > > besides "catspaw". It starts with an "H" and ends in a "Y". :-) > > > > > > > > Jerry > > > > > > > > bdcolen wrote: > > > > > > > > > Good points, Jeffrey. And there are very few places - "national > > > > > security" aside - where you can't eventually work out a way to take > > > > > photos if your are serious about what you're doing, and have a > > > > > legitimate reason for photographing. > > > > > > > > > > I remember a long discussion on this list about the impossibility of > > > > > shooting inside Starbucks. Couldn't be done, people said. It's >against > > > > > corporate policy, they said. Starbucks sucks, they said. Which is >why I > > > > > challenged one of my students to do a project on a day at >Starbucks - > > > > > http://web.mit.edu/21w.749/www/Students/aaronmihalik/finalproject/ > > > > > > > > > > Starbucks isn't a "cat house," but the principle is the same. ;-) > > > > > > > > > > B. D. > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > >-- >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