Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Rich, I seem to be missing something here. How does the fact that my camera has a strap attached and it is wrapped around my wrist or neck or not there at all affect the way I see? I am currently "stuck" so I am very interested. Thanks.......Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Lahrson [SMTP:tripspud@wenet.net] > Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 2:25 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] No strap!!?? > > Michael Darnton wrote: > > Like a lot of stragegies, this one seems to have less than > universal > > application. I guess it works fine if you only actively use one camera > at a > > time, never change lenses, and rarely change film on the fly, but for a > > working photographer in a fast and changing situation I can't see it. > > Hi Michael! > > Certainly, for the photojournalist 'no strap' is impractical. I was > commenting from a perspective of personal photography in an unhurried, > non-deadline atmosphere, where not using a neckstape may encourage the > photographer to see things in a new way....at least for a time. How > true it is, though, that a 'new way' of seeing soon becomes old. That's > the challenge of creative photography, or creativity in the arts in > general. > > For example, once I made a fine image, a street portrait of a couple. > The man was a full head above his girlfriend, so this made a good vertical > composition with the Leica. At the time this was 'new', at least for me. > Years later, I attempted the same thing with a different couple, and > for whatever reason, the image was now a lifeless cliche. > > Cheers, > > Rich