Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: leica portraits
From: KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Tue Feb 22 13:38:24 2005

>From: Luis Miguel Casta?eda <lmc@interlink.es>

>>On 21 de feb de 2005, at 21:49, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>>
>> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/ball4.jpg
>>
>> As always, thoughts, threats and posturing welcome.

>when I see studio portraits that resembles half candid - half prepared 
>shots in harmony I'd badly love to make things like that in that way. 
>Then I remember that I really dont know what I want for a model except 
>the naturality and real things... I think it's easier for me to shoot 
>out there because I haven't to worry about the background, lightning, 
>asking the model for doing this or that, just pick my luck and bid for 
>it...

>Really Im jealous of these habilities. Keep on going, even if the 
>batteries are drained.

For me, it's totally the opposite I look at a scene and think "wow, this
would be better if it were being dive bombed by UFO's." either the world's
just not weird enough for me, or I'm too lazy to find the good stuff. 

Once you figure out where to put the light, the hard part starts, because
you have to figure out what to put in front of it. 

Thanks for your kind words,

kc

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