Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People often ask how can I shoot film esp. on vacation as I won' t know if "the shot" came out. Then it's a discussion of bracketing which causes their eyes to glaze over. I'm doing a project with Kodachrome and I rather like the suprise I get in the mail box when I get a package from Parsons, Kansas. ernie David Rodgers wrote: >>> My favorite quote from either Winogrand or Freidlander is: >>> > > " I photograph things to see what things look like photographed" when > asked why he was a photographer.<< > > Interesting. I never heard that before. But there's something to it. > > I wonder what those guys would think about digital photography. The > gestation period of a digital image is about a second. Compare that to > whichever one of the above had 60,000 undeveloped images in his estate. > > There's something to be said for having to wait to see what a photograph > looks like. Imagine if the gestation period for humans was one day > instead of nine months. I'm guessing it would take some anticipation > caused excitement out of the delivery. But there's also such a thing as > waiting too long. > > I've still got a couple of rolls of BW film that I shot in the 70's but > are still undeveloped. They're my own personal time capsules. > > Dave R > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >