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Subject: [Leica] eyes...
From: cochranpr at mac.com (David Cochran)
Date: Sun Oct 30 04:15:37 2005
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Are you sure Steve?

Wasn't he looking at this?....Orchestra Hit Hitchcoknian style!!!

http://www.frappr.com/lug/photo/170232


:-P


D.
On Oct 30, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:

> On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:58 AM, David Cochran wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation Steve.
>>
>> Now we know what was the guy with the iMac reacting to....;-)
>>
>> naughty, naughty...yey, yey?...
>
>
> no, no... he was noting the current price on the leica digital back...
>
> Steve
>
>
>>
>> D.
>> On Oct 30, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is an interesting observation for me, Ted....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> faces on conventional screens, we're able to see where people belong
>>>> in relation to one another or their surroundings"
>>>> chop..................
>>>> I had the same reaction as Ted - the man at the computer had context
>>>> while only the man on the telephone had any sense of context at all.
>>>> chop...........................
>>>> I believe Steve's portrait of the man and his computer - and, of
>>>> course, his eyes - is what gives the image it's power and why I
>>>> reacted to it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> chop............
>>>
>>>> On 10/29/05, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's a completely different photograph to a "portrait style" as we 
>>>>> see in
>>>>> the other pictures. I don't doubt Steve is going to achieve the 
>>>>> kind of eye
>>>>> series he has in mind, but it's not an easy subject to shoot. Well 
>>>>> any
>>>>> subject is a tough thing to shoot when building a series of 
>>>>> excellent
>>>>> photographs, but he'll do it.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> thanks guys....  I have learned from your viewpoints and this 
>>> intriguing discussion.
>>>
>>> Here are the facts... they are true....(and my nickname is not 
>>> Scooter...).
>>>
>>> I went to a camera store here in Phoenix... I took a roll of 
>>> film...BW400CN.
>>>
>>> I borrowed from their stock a Leicaflex SL and a Summicron 90mm f2, 
>>> off  the shelf...and I used this equipment, shooting the roll of 
>>> film over the next 30 minutes, of the employees at work in the shop.
>>>
>>> voila..film developed, PS, some cropping...
>>>
>>> context, clear or not... at work, same room, within 20 feet of one 
>>> another... camera people...  all reacting one way or another... 
>>> looking or not.
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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