Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Ted! I try to follow your "shooting from the shadow" maxim as best I can, because it does bring consistently good results. As for the cat, as often happens in this kind of situation, this is the second of two pictures I took of it. In the first picture the cat is just napping, then he lifted his head in response to the shutter click (even an M6 is readily audible to a cat, I guess) and that is the picture I posted. In general, for the landscape shots the light was a problem; the only time one could get any kind of decent modeling was early morning, as in really early, before I was functioning after intravenous coffee injections. After 9 a.m. the sun was strong and unforgiving and later yet it was so hot that the brain slowed to a crawl. Nathan Ted Grant wrote: > Nathan Wajsman showed a number of interesting photographs. > > >>> and finally one of the many stray cats that hang around the harbour, > > apparently living off fish scraps and restaurant leftovers: > > > > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_30alt7.jpg > > (M6+50mm Summilux, Fuji Acros)<<<< > > Hi Nathan, the cat is the one I like the best. Interesting in how it reacted > and you capturing the peak moment of cat re-action. to you. ;-) > > The first two I found the light wasn't doing anything for you, probably in > colour it would've been very interesting. But in B&W it's acting only as an > exposure amount and not adding any drama or effective lighting angle to the > scene. > > The third, early morning street scene, the light is working for you because > you're on the shadow-side of the street and the shadow side of the light > making it add more detail and contrast / depth the photograph. > > As usual no matter where you are you come up with interesting photographs. > Keep 'em coming. > ted > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html