Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try retracing your steps on your knees. Shoot everything from 1 meter or lower. While you're down there, you might consider shooting that part of the world below 1 meter as well. Lots of interesting stuff down there :-) Also, try retracing your steps and composing very narrow selective shots of your subjects that are still representative of the entire subject. A tail pipe instead of the whole car, a broken rusted hinge on a barn door instead of the barn. A 50mm or better yet 90mm lens might make this a more interesting excercise. Happy shooting! Scott Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Rob, > > If you cannot travel, and you do not like street photography, then I > guess it's back to the cows and barns...but with infrared film! Summer > is upon us, so I am sure you will have lots of good IR weather--the > nice thing about IR is that the kind of weather that is lousy for > normal photography--bright sunshine--is just the ticket for infrared. > > Also, I would suggest that you reconsider your aversion to people. > Street photography does not have to be of the "in-your-face" variety > like B.D.'s pictures from the commuter trains or Johnny Deadman's > Oxford Street pictures of a few years ago. Not everyone can do that, > it takes a special talent and psyche. But if you look at my Lisbon > pictures, for example: > http://www.leica-gallery.net/wajsman/folder-3375.html > then you will notice that while many of them have people in it, the > people are often at a distance and really just serve as an additional > design element in an urban landscape. I for one would like to see what > Upper Sandusky, OH, looks like. > > Good luck! > > Nathan > > Rob McClure wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I've run into a dry spell where I'm just about out of photo ideas. >> I't seems like I've photographed every barn, cow, bird, bridge, >> landscape, sunrise and sunset within a 30 mile radius of my home base >> here in central Ohio (about 3000 images). I've also run dry at our >> vacation home on Lake Erie (about 1000 images). In recent >> correspondence with my brother in Maryland, he is also in the same >> photo slump. I don't really like shooting people, other than family >> snaps, so street photography holds no appeal. Travel does refresh >> me, but opportunities to do so are currently limited. >> >> Any ideas how to break this slump? >> >> Rob McClure >> Upper Sandusky, OH >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >