Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was great seeing Ted do his slideshow Friday at 4:30! "Work from the shadow side" "People listen with their eyes so you photograph them when they are listening and have life and light in their eyes" Images speak for themselves but Ted had a concise verbal message to go along with his tray. I've got Teds book but it was great to see his other stuff too! And we all got along over here Friday night with Lug Lurker up from Palo alto Karen Schreiber and her daughter Jess. Karen is getting going doing political photography with a Leica M6! Karen and her daughter were fun to show my prints to but even more fun to show the gear to! They really went nuts over my Rolleiflex 2.8F! But when i pulled out the Hasselblad and "made it go" the excitement reached it's highest point. But at least the prints came first before the gear in this house! I predict some medium format in the short term future for Karen Schreiber. A square lover. Ted and I both gave her intense simultaneous stereo criticism when she brought out her prints which she weathered graciously. She did have some very good shots! The meat in the Spaghetti sauce got overcooked after a full day! So much for that experiment! No more 12 your spaghetti sauces with meat in this house! Too many chefs! Karen Rabiner and I have decided we enjoy entertaining and to make more a habit of it. Elmo the dog very much liked the company and always visa versa! Slides the cat also enjoyed the company when she was in the mood to do so. And my car seems to know the way to the airport again!! The strange new hi tech hooks on my walls gleamed with their brass "Made in Germany" splendor!!!!?! ...a shame to cover some of them up with framed prints! But I'm on a roll and within a week I'll be living and working in my own gallery again! As each image get's framed it gets uploaded onto my new website. This week I'll be scanning and printing like crazy as i go though my files. Both my new website up 4 am Saturday night and my walls are grasping for my output. And i do well when I've got a defined audience. After making a nice scan Photoshoped like crazy for density and contrast and dust specks cloned and otherwise computer removed I made a copy in my "smaller for the web" file which is 6 or 700 pixels tall. Then i do a save for web and that ends up as a JPEG or gif in my website folder to upload to my site a bit later. But not before i do another from the "smaller" Photoshop format image as a save for web but this time a 192 tall thumbnail for the thumbnail folder. No thumbnails for the walls perhaps i should change that! But within an hour of uploading it to the many new pages on my new site I'll be printing it on either my 700 Epson with archival MIS quadtone inks from bottles or the 1200 with MIS color Archival inks from bottles. BOTH on letter sized paper, (many of my existing frames are 11x14) or on A3 or super A3 paper for my 20x24 black frames for my walls...and also a larger portfolio. I went back to CameraWorld the next day, Saturday to check out Ernst Wildi's gig whom Ted and I had met Friday afternoon as it was us three in an empty room at one point! Ted himself has been known to at least at one point three Hasselblads hanging off his neck and arms by the way on alternate days with his Leicas! The Leicas winning out completely on the long run! Ending up both running into Jim Marshal repeatedly Saturday and catching his act with the slide trays but that's a different story. We had a "model" in common. Jim is man with the first 28 Summicron in the U.S.A. Which does not come off his camera as mine is 3 weeks late and the BS is piled on from all directions in layers! The lens shade being entirely too protuberant from what i could see. Like the 35 Summilux Asph only worse. Sunday two of my Contax friends came down from Seattle to do the last of the three CameraWorld days and we had chicken picata. I'm on first name basis now with every rep. of every camera company!! But no Contax for me. The N1 did not win me over Saturday. I'm going Leica R with a 180 2.8 and macro glass! So I'm pulling my order on the 28 Summicron. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA Updated ALL MY DESIGN webpage http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ but still very much in progress at least I've got my personal work on my own thing now!