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Subject: [Leica] A short walk from my house/Exposures
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:11:39 -0500
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That's the monkey/typewriter approach.  Take enough photos and one of them
is bound to be good!

Tina

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> A young acquaintance of mine suddenly got very gung ho about photography. I
> gave him the standard lecture about depth of field and wished him luck. He
> rapidly bought a pile of equipment and got going. Some stuff he did showed
> real talent. We are both volunteers at the Computer History Museum in
> Mountain View, CA, and he did a bunch of shots of artifacts that were
> remarkably good and were actually used by the Museum in picture post cards
> and other publicity media. But one afternoon he wanted to take photos of
> some of us in front of an exhibit. I was appalled when one push of his
> shutter release resulted in a cacophony of about ten shutter clicks.
>
>
>
>  On Fri, 18 Feb 2011  <tedgrant at shaw.ca>wrote:
>>
>>  >DIGITAL ERA: Regradless of whomever, we all shoot far more frames with
>>  >digital than we ever did on film. Does this make us better
>> photographers?
>>  >NOPE! Just means we shoot more frames and throw more away after looking
>> on
>>  >screen and asking ourselves the same old question?.... "WHAT THE HELL
>> WERE
>>  >YOU THINKING?"
>>
>> ===================================================================================================
>> I find that I shoot about the same number of exposures that I did
>> with film (on the job). Then I only rarely used a motor drive
>> (mainly the few soccer games I covered) and even now my drive
>> setting is always on "single". In my personal photography, I shoot
>> FAR fewer pictures with digital than I did before; I always have an
>> empty feeling when I can't record an image on a tangible medium.
>>
>> I got a chuckle this week.  I was at a number of campus events that
>> were also covered by a photographer for the student newspaper.
>> While I would observe, decide, and expose a frame at a time, every
>> time she pressed the shutter release, I could hear,
>> "click-click-click" or "clickclickclickclick".  These were lecture
>> type situations, not sports.  Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.  ;~)
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>> UPAA POY 1978
>> University Information Technology Services
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> amr3 at uwm.edu
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>>
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>
> --
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Do not meddle in the affairs of cats,
> for they are subtle and will pee
> on your computer!
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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