Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > >I decided to go blow some film. (PKR) of the street near where I work. > >(6th and Mission) There are a bunch of chess players on the street. > > > >So I took all three trusty Leica M6s and started shooting. > > > >Not more then 5 minutes and a gentleman (I use the term loosely) > > > last summer i tried to photograph some chess players in washington square > park, one guy jumped up and clapped his hand over my camera lens and > another guy started shrieking at me -- the guy with his hand over my lens > said "you better get out of here now, some of these guys are crazy." > > there's something to be said for getting to know your subjects before you > photograph them. i guess if i wanted to really do it, i should have spent > a week there without my camera first. > > eh, who needs a superficial photo anyway.... > > kc Well you chess shooters obviously don't bathe or somethig heheheh. I have been photographing the chess players in Harvard Square for years with out any difficulty. Course it helps that I am also one of the players. Occasionally someone will ask that their photo not be taken and I oblige. Check out my webpage at http://sites.netscape.net/bosjohnusa/homepage. Almost all the chess shots were done with t 3c and summitar, or M3 with 35 summicron. Also there is a page of what I called art photos for lack of a better word. Many of these images were also Leica images. John Shick