Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] This is what I do.
From: Rob Heyman <rheyman@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:29:28 -1000
References: <200207221707.g6MH7hL02595@panix1.panix.com>

Thank you Rei,
I appreciate any and all of your comments. The first two are from the same
wedding and are of another photographer and his bride. So, of course, he had
to do exactly as he was told, didn't he? He could not refuse to do what he
asks his clients to do every weekend.

Rob

Rei Shinozuka wrote:

> these are all very nice images.  i can't help but feeling that i'd be
> kind of embarrassed being the subject in the first two images; they
> are beautiful but the couples look a bit like actors shilling
> for tiffany's.
>
> the fifth one is exactly right in my opinion, classy and understated.
> i'd love to have had one of me and my bride like that.
>
> -rei
>
> (who had no wedding photographer at all at his shoestring-budget ceremony,
> and now only has really crappy snapshots from guests, of whom even the
> photo enthusiasts seem to have lost all power to make an acceptably
> well-focused and exposed photograph)
>
> > From: Rob Heyman <rheyman@bigpond.net.au>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After a couple of years of mainly lurking and the occasional comment I
> > have finally posted a few images for comment and/or appraisal at:
> > http://www.leica-gallery.net/heymanphoto/folder-3164.html
> >
> > These are from the last few weddings I have covered in and around
> > Brisbane and, for better or worse, this and portraits is what I do.
> > Please feel free to offer advice and critiques.
> >
> > Almost all wedding images are made with my M6 kit of 3 lenses 35, 50 and
> > 90mm. Flash is used for approx one shot every two hundred and those
> > would probably  have been better without it. I prefer the look of
> > "available darkness".
> >
> > Thank you all for the constant stream of entertainment.
> >
> > Rob Heyman
>
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> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>
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