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Subject: RE: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup
From: Phong <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 13:53:47 -0400

Hi B.D.,

I've been meaning to mention this since after your Eugene Richards'
workshop in Maine.   Your reply echoes something I've read in 
Freeman Patterson's  "Shadowlight".    I will go back and reread it.
Anynody else on the list has read it ?

- - Phong


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 12:52 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup
> 
> 
> Rather than go back to reshoot the T-shirt, you might want to think about
> why you're shooting the t-shirt - other than to document its existence.
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of TMitchell
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 12:17 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup
> 
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> I would have never thought about blurring the people in the Market shot.
> I'm definitely going to watch for that shirt there again some time and try
> to reshoot.
> 
> I do plan to reshoot the bridge on a day with better sky.  On the PAW
> project, I've been trying to work within the constraints of posting
> something shot during the previous week and it's hard to find a good sky in
> Aberdeen.  I think the rainiest place in the continental US is about 30
> miles from there.  It's easy to see where Kurt Cobain picked up a lot of his
> angst.  I only pass through there on surfing trips so this is will be filed
> in my mental 'future shots to do' list.
> 
> The water idea sounds fun too.  I'll need to wear a raincoast though, I got
> frickin' soaked the first time ;->
> 
> Thanks a ton, especially for the dead people idea.  I'm doubtful that would
> have come to me on my own and I've got a couple other creepy places it'll
> come in handy.
> 
> T.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Don Dory
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 6:43 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas;
> Let's see,
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=997625&size=lg
> There is definitely something here,  what is needed is some echo of the
> t-shirt.  Possibly a slow shutter speed to blur the people so they look
> ghost like, or a double exposure so the people are transparent.
> 
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=997629&size=lg
> This bridgscape is more problematic as it just doesn't reach me.  If I were
> confronted by a similar structure I would have gotten lower and shot at a
> more upward angle, hopefully choosing a day with more clouds in the sky with
> a orange to red filter to pop the bridge structure from the sky.  However,
> this is your art so if that is not the message you wanted to say then please
> disregard as everyone should have their own vision.
> 
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=997633&size=lg
> The wall of water is an intriguing image with something there.  Possibly a
> vertical composition, possibly some spot of color.  I do think the main is a
> stronger image than the alternate, mostly because the water in this case is
> better stopped than blurred.  Woulda, shoulda, possibly multiple exposures
> at a high shutter speed to build up a wall of sharp water?
> 
> Thanks for showing your work.
> 
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
> 
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