[Leica] NOW photographing people and focal length — was Re: Legs

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Street photography might work with a medium to long lens, but I don't think
it would work at all for documentary photography .  I like to get close to
people and I think that's necessary.  A long lens seems sneaky, somehow -
more like paparazzi.

Tina

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:17 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
mac.com>wrote:

> If a street photographer worked with a long lens,
> and with the same respect and depth of knowledge for his subject
> as Doug Herr shows for his critters,
> I imagine we'd see equally strong work.
> All the rules:
> wide for street and architecture
> medium long for portrait
> long for wild life, stage and sports
> etc.
> have been and will continue to be broken
> by the serious photographer
> who's seriously searching for their own voice.
>
> IMO YMMV
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Chris Saganich wrote:
>
> > If human beings showed-up for me the same way that wildlife shows-up for
> me then a long lens it is.  I like safety.  Often we treat people we don't
> know more like wildlife or the streets we are on as untamed and dangerous.
>  I never felt that HCB images portrayed people or places that way.  The
> people and the places seemed very natural and it is obvious that is how 
> they
> showed-up for him.  Other street images seem like the photographer was
> shooting wildlife in a dangerous place.
>
>
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