Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Wajsman offered in response: Subject: Re: [Leica] Ericspaw Week 43 > Hi Eric, > > I feel that you had an opportunity but missed it (unless you took a bunch > of other pictures you are not showing us). What I mean is that an event > like this is a great place to get close to the action. A scarecrow making > event sounds like a good photo opportunity, but what I see in the image is > a bunch of people in the distance and some bales of hay--without your > description it would have been impossible to make out >what they were > doing. You should definitely have gone in and take some isolation shots of > people with their creations. > Better luck next time, even the best only bat around 0.300 :-)<< Hi Eric and Nathan, Well OK Eric what I couldn't figure out was, when I first read your post ..."where is the scare crow?" As did Nathan and I'm sure many others. I mean at an event such as this, nobody is up tight about a photographer taking pictures or their picture. If they are, they should've stayed home let alone put on some kind of weird costume and gone public. ;-) Look at it this way... "Do not think of any kind of costume related opportunity/event as an event to "talk about!" Period! It's a visual thing, therefore shoot a zillion photographs. Goes with the territory, show no fear just shoot, shoot and shoot again! People attending do so quite willingly, as they are sort of voyers and expect to draw attention. So take "good pictures of these folks when you can" as that's what any kind of halloween event is all about.