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Subject: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop...
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Jul 10 14:47:04 2005

You must be pretty amazing, Philippe - in the halcyon days of LIFE magazine,
the rule of thumb used to be that two "keepers," two shots that the
photographer herself really thought hit it, was doing well.


On 7/10/05 3:06 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:

> For me it's the capacity of telling a story, or giving the spectator a 
> sense
> of one's world, in 10 shots max.
> But 20 out of 200 is not that great as an average IMO.
> B.D., is she nice looking? ;-)
> 
> 
>> From: Robert Meier <robertmeier@usjet.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:53:05 -0500
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop...
>> 
>> What specifically are the qualities that make these more than random snap
>> shots?  What do you mean when you say 'one of these images' and 'one or 
>> two
>> like these'?   What are you looking at and seeing in them?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> But when looked at carefully, they're not at all. One might spend an
>>> afternoon in this situation, as she did, taking random snapshots, and not
>>> get one of these images. Or, if one was lucky taking random snap shots,
>>> get
>>> one or two like these; she's got at least 20 out of 200- which is a
>>> shockingly high success rate.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 7/10/05 12:52 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Tamer than Clark, but very similar.   The amazing thing is they look, at
>>>> first glance, like random snapshots.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Or  Larry Clark's stuff - She really has an eye.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 7/10/05 10:30 AM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Reminds me of aspects of Frederic Wiseman's amazing film "Belfast".
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> bill h
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
>>>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:35 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ...is discovering that one of your students has IT...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This work was shot by a 24-year-old woman named Casey Splain; 
>>>>>>> remember
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> name:
>>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album244
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> B. D.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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