[Leica] French cafe question

[mail at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)]

Ted, thanks for looking. You're right about the Nocti tightening up the
framing.

Steve


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> I've now posted all the shots I have of this group at 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album95 all are full frame with just 
> levels and sharpening applied.
>
> I started with the 35mm Summicron and then switched to the Nocti. It 
> should be obvious from the framing which are which.
>
> Sorry if I bore anyone by posting so many similar photographs, but 
> they may be of interest to some. They were a fascinating group to 
> photograph.<<<<

Steve,
Not boring at all ! It's really a great teaching - learning set of
pictures 
illustrating staying with an interesting subject and milking it for all
it's 
worth..

For those who think HCB and other well knowns shot one picture we see of

their work, trust me they didn't just shoot one frame and that was it,
walk 
away. Yep in some cases they "got lucky" and did it with one shot. But
they 
would have shot many frames capturing the changing moments of a
situation. 
Then pulled the one frame that worked.

In reality it's milking a situation for every nuance of change, eye's, 
hands, light, gesture, expression particularly where the photographer is

"invisible" as Steve is in this case and shoots at each changing moment.

Quite frankly after looking at each frame a few times and weighing one 
against the other you picked the very best frame out of the group with
the 
complete eye attention to the speaker. Great captured moment.

I also felt the move to the Noctilux strengthened the frame, as the 35
was a 
little too loose and you'd have cropped when printing. Better to have a
full 
frame then requiring major cropping in the darkroom.

Thanks for the series as I'm sure many will learn the worth of multiple 
shooting when the subject is unaware and animated.

ted