Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/16
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"Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@email.msn.com> wrote:
> Personally, I don't care why people look at my pictures, just so
> they do. If I had to worry about what might be read into my
> pictures, or why people liked them, I would hardly
> have time to take them.
Most of the time it's of course like that, but I've found (when
looking into from where users get to my web site) that it's not
always so. I photograph trains, and sometimes there's graffitti
on them. As having one's graffitti seen is part of the goal, I
realized I was involuntarily encouraging them; So since then
some photos have been removed and some have had the graffitti
digitally erased (but it's still a rather true to life scene, as
the photos look like they could have if the cleaning crew had
just been there). Blocking users from certain other documents
wasn't an option, since it's easy to circumvent and they'd still
be able to find their "creations" on the web (but of course
harder if they're described as "trains" rather than as "graffitti").
PS
I had my first experience with M6 battery/meter failure last
week, and sure enough it was a Li-Mn battery which lit up
both diodes when it shouldn't. Happily I was (unusually)
bracketing, as it was rather dark and snowy, +-2 stops.
I've set the meter on EI250 for T400CN, and on some of the
- -2 stop photos you can hardly see they're exposed; But the
+2 stop ones came out OK, see second URL below.
- --
Urban Fredriksson griffon@canit.se http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/
Photo pages with: T400CN - photos and opinion and my photo gallery:
http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/diverse/pix/pix.html
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