Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/27

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Subject: [Leica] Backs at Backlight
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:47:27 -0500

I got to hold his negative of the "Sand Nude" in my hands, to be contact
printed with a light bulb wrapped with Kleenex and developed in amidol.  I
felt at one with the universe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:17 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Backs at Backlight
> 
> > Mark,
> >
> > There is a lot of great stuff in your site.  I don't know why I haven't
> seen
> > it before.  I know what you mean about prints vs. internet, but then not
> > everyone can see a print.  I thought the last thing I would ever do is
> > photograph flowers, but beauty is where you find it, I guess, and now
> I'm
> > addicted too.  I remember that EW said, if you don't know what to
> > photograph, look down at your shoes (I never figured that one out,
> > actually).  Anyway, I'm motivated to pick up the camera and look for
> some
> > more stuff.
> >
> > Ken
> 
> 
> It could have been he, EW, Edward Weston meant "Go Macro".
> Because by far the stuff he had the most luck with was shot 2 feet away.
> And with the bellows factor many hours.
> 
> As in Tina's wedding shots we just saw. Detail shots make the whole.
> 
> 
> You don't have to wait for good light.
> 
> EW shot at high noon. The number one No no.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
> 
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