Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., I understand better from your response, and I guess I really don't have anything much to argue with you, other than to quibble about taking the nanosecond before tripping the shutter. Pehaps that's a time-management issue. As far as Winnogrand's amazing eye, yes! And he shot a lot. I have read he left behind garbage bags full of exposed film which were subsequently developed under a grant (to preserve the images). But I haven't seen anything of this work. I wonder what happened to it? Regards, Dan Kapsner <<Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:30:58 -0400 From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> Subject: RE: Subject: RE: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup Message-ID: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOCELGEHAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net> References: Equally respectfully - I'm not suggesting going into a situation with a shooting "plan" of any kind. I am suggesting taking a nanosecond to ask oneself, "why am I tripping the shutter?" And, further, I am suggesting that a good deal longer be spent going over the resulting negs - or work prints - asking oneself, "will someone looking at this image be able to see in it what I saw in the original situation, or did I have much more information than they have in this single still image?" As to Winnogrand - Winnogrand had to gifts: the first was an absolutely amazing eye, which probably functioned on a subconscious level, allowing him to "see" things which very few mortal see; and he was obviously an astoundingly good editor, able to pour over thousands and thousands of images and pull out the comparative handful of truly outstanding images. B. D.>> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html