Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/20

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Subject: [Leica] Wide angle shot with tele lens
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:55:05 -0400

I you do and you want me to join you call me from  your cell phone and I can
appear there in 8 minutes.


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Mark William
> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:47:04 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Wide angle shot with tele lens
> 
> On 4/20/2011 4:16 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/110120_202619.jpg.html
>> 
>> I shot this January 20th with my 85 1.8 after dark. Or during dark. A few
>> blocks from me its the 24 hour Big Nick's Pizza&  Burger Joint. A New York
>> institution.
>> The door on the left you go in and its Pizza. The left its Burger.  But 
>> It's
>> really the same place and one of the more graphically interesting places
>> I've ever hung out in. its filled on the walls with small signs and 
>> Glossys
>> of actors. And the menu is page after page after page you can get also 
>> lost
>> in the typography and forget to be thinking about what you might order.
>> There is a key scene in Midnight Cowboy in which it was either Viva or 
>> Ultra
>> Violet had Dustin Hoffman and John Voight a ticket to an Andy Warhol party
>> which they later attend and steal all the food they can pocket. They watt
>> all the way in the back against the back wall. Its interesting to be sat 
>> in
>> that very seat at this point.  Its 1969 all over again.
>> 
>> You can see as you slide from left to right if you hit the enlarge button 
>> in
>> the image you can get either ostridge or buffalo burgers. But no tofu
>> versions of these. But plenty of veggie options for me. But in general 
>> they
>> have everything. And they have it at 4:30 in the morning. My kind of 
>> place.
>> But if you sit outside its not fresh air. Its cigarette smoke. So you sit
>> inside.  When the smokers don't own the sidewalks I will be a happy guy.
>> 
>> This shot I decided to have been a seamless stitch I guess.
>> So I'm getting wide with a tele.
>> Its always what you don't think. And I didn't have to stand in the middle 
>> of
>> Broadway to do it.
>> 
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
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> That is a really excellent image, but $2 for a bag of ice?  Not sure
> about the turkey balls either, though I like lamb fries, but I will look
> it up next time I'm there.
> 
> Ken
> 
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