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Subject: [Leica] WAS: New online photo exhibitionNOW: KEEPING NOTES.
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Mon Mar 6 11:29:44 2006
References: <200635203937.930930@NewDellHome> <001f01c640cf$e9733f90$73b56c18@ted>


Ted Grant wrote:

> David Keenan offered: wise comment!
> 
>> > I figure that in the long run I don't really care (and no one else > 
>> should either) if a photograph was exposed at speed X and f-stop Y. 
>> The > image is what counts and it is successful or a failure 
>> regardless of > technical exposure data -- at least IMHO... <<<
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> Wise words of wisdom me old son! :-)
> 
> When I first started playing photographer someone told me I should keep 
> notes of every frame just in case I required it for future reference in 
> how to take the same kind of photo again.
> 
> Now doesn't that sound brilliant? Let's say it lasted about a half dozen 
> rolls and many pages of a note book. Then I realized how stupid this 
> "note taking was." I was spending more time writing all this stuff .... 
> just in case I might need it to take the same kind of picture again?


...and very useful when under fire!

Peter


In reply to: Message from ausdlk at swbell.net (David Keenan) ([Leica] Re: New online photo exhibition)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] WAS: New online photo exhibitionNOW: KEEPING NOTES.)