Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom wrote: <<<I was shooting portraits of some very up tight people. I set up, stepped back, and while talking to them, and looking at them eye to eye, I made my exposures with a cable release. They were relaxed. The film looks great. So ha!>>>>> Tom, Tom, my good man, :) We are talking about completely different things here. One, you are shooting portarits and the camera is on a tripod which you have "set-up the shot before hand" and of course that's the way to do it, no arguement nor making fun of of that. Yes, long cble release and talking to the folks and clicking and they have no idea when you are shooting because you aren't looking through the camera lens. Quite an appropriate manner of shooting portraits What is being missed by a few folks is this nonsense of having the camera around your neck and walking or waiting for someone or something to cross your camera lens path and then squeeze the shutter release without any idea of what is going on the film. The other one is the nonchalant look like you're not paying any attention and clicking away without hardly looking in the direction the camera is pointing. My point is, "If you are a, for a better name, "street photographer" and do this without looking through the camera while focusing and composing and then taking "sneaky images" illustrates you are no photographer at all, but merely a pointy shootie with a wide angle lens stopped down to f 22. It also illustrates the photgrapher dosen't have the balls to put the camera to his eye and take the picture! Hopefully I'm getting through here. :) ted