Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Bill...You're certainly right about the wide angles, and depth of field...It is something that I find troublesome...There are, btw, a number of cellphone photos, which I haven't yet converted to bw...and of course there has to be a field and someone on the phone in it to shoot it..;-) - I'm all for grittiness when it's there...but this wasn't a gritty wedding...As to shadows, etc., how about the beauty parlor shot with the shuttered window throwing bars of light on the bride...or the bride leaving her room?....I know what you mean though...There is no question that digital is NOT film - for any number of reasons. Life is, in this case sadly, about tradeoffs. (Of course I did shoot some film - with my old Olympus OM4 rescued from my daughter..I used the 21 f 2 and 50 1.2, to see how I liked working with them and what they'll give me. I have to say that being able to focus to about 8 inches with a 21 was an indescribable pleasure...as to the 50 1.2 - I've never used it before, so I don't know what I'll be getting back...Focusing with it was sure easy, but whether it's a coke bottle bottom or a reasonably sharp lens, I don't yet know... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Bill Harting Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:02 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Not a PAW... BD, Beautiful set of pictures. I think the new camera is letting you/enabling you to see more freely and perhaps nimbly than film. I know the family will be pleased with this set of caught moments. Yet I miss some qualities that I think i saw in some of your other folders, and in other venues. Maybe it is just me: in the Scene/Unseen folder for example there is more moodiness, irony, shadows, wider angles here and there, irregular lighting and greater use of depth of field. Grittier. In the wedding set every exposure is perfect, focus is even more regularly perfect. Hard to argue that these results aren't better. And maybe a set of wedding pictures isn't the place to display grittiness. But then there is that picture of the wedding guest in the field with the cellphone: was that film? How about Phia and Harry? Sam's eyes? You're doing amazing stuff. bill h - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 7:54 PM Subject: [Leica] Not a PAW... > But new images... > From a shoot of the 24 hours before a wedding through the > ceremony....I still have many more images to work on, but here's a > group of initial picks... > http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/folder-6029.html > > Enjoy, criticize, curse, scream, or whatever.....;-) > > - > > -- > 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