Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, You captured my intent exactly--I wanted to convey the feeling of the place, and in your case at least apparently I have succeeded. I have a story about bookshops. When I lived in Lawrenceville, NJ from 1990 to 95, there was a wonderful bookshop in our local small shopping center, literally a few hundred yards from our house. I became a frequent visitor to the bookshop, often just browsing while waiting for food from the Chinese takeout next door. The owner loved to talk about books and everything else, he organized book signings in the shop, in short, it was a great place. Then, in the fall of 1994 a large mega bookshop opened in a strip shopping mall a few miles from our place, and business slowly declined at our local shop. I am guilty myself; on a few occasions when I wanted (not needed) a book, I went to the big shop with its greater selection (and lower prices) instead of letting my local shop order it for me, which meant waiting a week or two. The rest of the story is predictable; in the spring of 1995, just before we left Lawrenceville for Belgium, our bookshop closed. Everyone complained about it, including the people who had moved their own purchases to the mega store... Nathan "SonC (Sonny Carter)" wrote: > Nathan: > Dang, John beat me to that comment. I like both shots a lot, and > that's the way I see them, not from an elevated position. If you were > doing a portrait of the shopkeeper, then I would say go closer or use > a longer focal length and lower the angle. But that did not seem to > be the goal here. It is a document of how it feels to be in that > shop, and I think it works well. I even like the texture that the > ceiling and lights add to the shot. > > Makes me want to go there. The giants are ruining the experience of > book-buying from eclectic shops like this; why I'll bet there's even > the obligatory cat somewhere in the place. > > Regards, > > Sonny > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John R. Fulton Jr." <JRFjr@compuserve.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:57 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 48 - what a real bookshop looks like > > > > This is only a minor annoyance in these shots but if you > > >had gone down on your knees then this would not have happened. Sort > of like > > >taking pictures of children. > > > > > > Nathan-- > > Last I looked this was not Architectural Digest photo forum. > > I think the "keystoning", "tilt-shelves", etc are not very > offensive. > > This is with a 24 not a 21, 15 or 12 all of which would have been > > worse (I know that's no excuse, but it's true). > > "Down on your knees" would probably have brought other stuff into > the > > foreground which might have been more of a problem. This is an > > environmental portrait and a good one at that (I liked the 'main' > one > > best). > > I don't deny that it's a good idea to avoid keystoning but it is > very > > inoffensive in your photographs. > > John Fulton > > Fort Worth > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html