Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, It looks like the patient is being seen for her first post-op visit after having intracapsular cataract surgery. The man standing there is her surgeon. He's about to remove her patch and check the uncorrected vision. The grey microscope on the left of the picture is the Zeiss model 30 - wonderful slit lamp biomicroscope (I had three of them). It's used to check out the implant lens for centration and corneal integrity from the no stitch incision. Am I close? Richard Richard Clompus, OD Roanoke, Virginia > > From: Howard Sanner <flagstad@mindspring.com> > Date: 2002/05/21 Tue PM 11:13:46 EDT > To: Leica Users Group <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Asking permission, KISS & the decisive moment > > Sincere thanks to those who responded. However, I still have questions. > > The technique of asking and waiting around till the subjects start ignoring you again is fine as far as it goes, and seems well > suited to when one is hired to take pictures or for situations, like the one Aaron documented, where the phjotographer is going > to hang out in one place for a while. However, how do you apply this to the oft-touted street photography, where whatever you're > trying to capture may disappear quickly? > > Here are two real examples. One day when walking back to the office from the film lab, I happened upon a mason striking the > mortar between the bricks. Since I had a Leica around my neck, I thought This is a perfect opportunity to try to catch some > decisive moments. So I asked him if I could take his picture. He gave me an unequivocal No. > > Last week while waiting for the subway, I saw a young couple embracing/borderline making out. It would have been a great > picture. However, had I asked them (I didn't, since all the cameras were at home), and even if they'd said OK, I think the mood > would have disappeared. > > So what does one do in such cases? Does one snap away and hope the subject doesn't brain him? Does he ask and hope the subject > doesn't become so self concious that the shot is ruined? > > Again, thanks for all suggestions. This is a kind of photography at which I'd like to improve. I have only one way to go. > > Here are some links to my attempts at this sort of thing: > > http://www.mindspring.com/~flagstad/jpg/catract1.jpg > http://www.mindspring.com/~flagstad/jpg/catract2.jpg > http://www.mindspring.com/~flagstad/jpg/aftermath/capnew03.jpg > http://www.mindspring.com/~flagstad/jpg/aftermath/capstep3.jpg > > All were taken with a screwmount Leica, the first two with a 35mm f/3.5 Elmar & VIOOH finder, the last two with a 50mm f/3.5 > Elmar. > > Howard Sanner > flagstad@mindspring.com > -- > 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