[Leica] YOUR RE-ACTIONS TO THIS LEICA short story FOR THE BOOK?

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

sock it to us...

If you think you will take better pictures, well...you will.

right?

s

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Steve Barbour

On Nov 6, 2011, at 11:06 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Good day Crew, 
> 
> As many of you know I am headlong  into writng a new book... it will have 
> a number of photos also. So once in a while I'm going to run a story or 
> anecdote by you for your thouhts. Your choice of comments will be 
> appeciated, GGOD BAD OR UGLY! These will be a first draft if you like. And 
>  very a skilled editor will editor will re-writes where required. But this 
> is written as I though I am telling stories while we sit arond shooting 
> the breeze and relaxing with a drink of ones choice... Or none.talk about 
> life with a Leica neessary.
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> 
> 
> #1 The Leica camera
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> 
> <<<<Once I started shooting with Leica's I felt obliged to make better
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> pictures.  I did and have never looked back.>>>>>>
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> 
> This is so true!  Only the experience of finding it out for ones self
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> will make you believe it happens.
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> 
> 
> When I got my first Leica it was as though a transformation began both in
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> how I looked at subjects and how I reacted mentally towards picture
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> possibilities.
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> It was as though I were given an incredible picture making tool, therefore
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> "I MUST TAKE BETTER PICTURES!"  And I did!  It was the mystique I related
> 
> to Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt and other greats
> 
> of Leica photography that became a driving force for me to improve.
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> 
> 
> I felt, "if they can do that why can't I?"  It was quite an incredible
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> feeling and there isn't any question my photography improved, I became more
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> confident and the over all appearance of my photos took on a different 
> look.
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> I became far more aware of the value of using existing light and why it
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> made pictures look so much different from the "flash look!"
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> 
> 
> <<<<I do not believe that owning an expensive camera will make you a good
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> photographer.>>>> That is out and out common sense! But the mystique of 
> using is something else?
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> 
> 
> In a mechanical sense, true. However, I feel there is a motivational
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> factor that can be attributed to the "Leica mystique"  that drives one to
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> become better. Or it certainly should, if you love photography with great
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> passion. I imagine others wouldn't improve simply because they might not
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> relate to the art of picture taking with the same emotions.
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> Whatever happened in my picture taking "style" was in direct response from
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> the moment I started using a Leica.  Of course the camera itself didn't
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> take better pictures, it made me think and motivate my passion for taking
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> pictures. And that is directly attributed to the Leica camera.
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> 
> There isn't a person in the world that can make me change my mind.  
> Certainly from any equipment point experience as I've used Nikons, Canons, 
> Hasselblads, Speed Graphics, C3-Mamiaflex twin reflex, Rollieflex... In 
> most cases three bodies at a time where interchangeable lenses were 
> available. 
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> 
> 
> My proven career and the quality of my work has been directly driven 
> through my use of the Leica and whatever it released within me as a 
> photojournalist.
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> So it is my tool of my profession thes 61 years of mygreat pasonat love 
> affair with the magic of pphotography
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> COMMENTS IF YOU PLEASE?  THANK YOU.
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> DR.TED
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