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Subject: [Leica] A Cold Day By The Shore
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sun Feb 11 17:48:42 2007
References: <45CD4827.6010602@hemenway.com> <49965.203.208.110.32.1171084917.squirrel@webmail.ncable.net.au>

Hi Alastair:

You're right... and I would have used a different lens for the 
tanker/tugboat shots but had only brought the 200mm for the isDS.

Thanks for the kind words about 7, 9 and 11.

Jim

Alastair Firkin wrote:

>>Not as cold in the Boston area as yesterday but the wind made the 22F
>>feel like 5F. It was so cold that I was shaking like Ryan O'Neal at a
>>family reunion!
>>
>>I put my early '60s 200mm Tele-Takumar, the one with a zillion aperture
>>blades, onto the isDS today and took a ride to Hull.
>>
>>Going over the Fore River Bridge, I saw a small tanker coming in so I
>>took a few pics of it, along  with my childhood beach before continuing
>>to Hull and Cohasset.
>>
>><http://www.hemenway.com/ColdDayShore-02092007/index.htm#14>
>>
>>I had only the 200mm for the isDS, so as seen with the small tanker, I
>>was limited to shooting it in sections.
>>
>>Whaddya think?
> 
> 
> Jim,
> my first impression is that the 200mm has compressed some of the scenes
> too much and confused the subject: this I think is true for the tanker
> images, but I love the effect on some especially: 7: 9; and 11. Here the
> perspective has really added to the scene selection. They all look like
> good records of a fun day
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] A Cold Day By The Shore)
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