Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's the monkey/typewriter approach. Take enough photos and one of them is bound to be good! Tina On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > A young acquaintance of mine suddenly got very gung ho about photography. I > gave him the standard lecture about depth of field and wished him luck. He > rapidly bought a pile of equipment and got going. Some stuff he did showed > real talent. We are both volunteers at the Computer History Museum in > Mountain View, CA, and he did a bunch of shots of artifacts that were > remarkably good and were actually used by the Museum in picture post cards > and other publicity media. But one afternoon he wanted to take photos of > some of us in front of an exhibit. I was appalled when one push of his > shutter release resulted in a cacophony of about ten shutter clicks. > > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 <tedgrant at shaw.ca>wrote: >> >> >DIGITAL ERA: Regradless of whomever, we all shoot far more frames with >> >digital than we ever did on film. Does this make us better >> photographers? >> >NOPE! Just means we shoot more frames and throw more away after looking >> on >> >screen and asking ourselves the same old question?.... "WHAT THE HELL >> WERE >> >YOU THINKING?" >> >> =================================================================================================== >> I find that I shoot about the same number of exposures that I did >> with film (on the job). Then I only rarely used a motor drive >> (mainly the few soccer games I covered) and even now my drive >> setting is always on "single". In my personal photography, I shoot >> FAR fewer pictures with digital than I did before; I always have an >> empty feeling when I can't record an image on a tangible medium. >> >> I got a chuckle this week. I was at a number of campus events that >> were also covered by a photographer for the student newspaper. >> While I would observe, decide, and expose a frame at a time, every >> time she pressed the shutter release, I could hear, >> "click-click-click" or "clickclickclickclick". These were lecture >> type situations, not sports. Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy. ;~) >> >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> UPAA POY 1978 >> University Information Technology Services >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >> amr3 at uwm.edu >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, > for they are subtle and will pee > on your computer! > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com