Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoth the Jeff Moore : > People have > gotten used to having super-duper-wide glass on the camera. It > can't be beat > if you need to cover a broad sweep of territory. But once it's > there on the > camera... well, when all you have is a hammer, every problem starts > to look > like a nail. [Who originally said that?] Shot a press conference yesterday... kind of uncontrolled. I wound up on the front row of cameras, being shoved forward. At a foot from the subject, I decided I didn't like the ultrawide perspective, so switched to 24-70 and forced a step back. Before I could get the camera up to my eye there were four still guys and three video cameras between me and the podium. (I was then about 30 inches from the subject.) That was the last I saw of the guy I'd been sent to shoot. There were no Hail Mary shots possible, as there was a guy holding a betacam two inches over my head. I'm very glad I grabbed a couple with the 15 before I backed up. I'm also very glad I HAD that ultrawide. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee at rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request