[Leica] Why we all should buy an Alpa :-)

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Not in a village in Central America ;-)  I can sit in a corner for hours
and disappear but not if I'm moving a tripod around to get the shot.

Tina

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> That's what everybody thinks Tina but I've had experience in just the
> opposite direction. My camera on the tripod people totally ignore me. Its
> like I'm a surveyor  or engineer or something. The very nature of hand held
> photography lies in unobtrusiveness and I have found you walk in the room
> with a camera and all eyes are on you. But if you are standing in the
> middle
> of it with a camera on a tripod they could care less. Its like you're just
> doing a job and not trying to put anything over on anybody.  NOT being at
> all sneaky. I've been saying this for years as I've experienced it time and
> time again. A tripod makes you invisible. You are a person at work not a
> person sneaking around trying to fool people. People walk right up to you
> as
> if you are in a glass booth and look right in the camera. You go lick they
> shrug their shoulders and walk away. You've not stolen their soul.
>
> A camera under an honest tripod planted firmly on the ground a makes you
> invisible in plain sight.
> Hand held photography makes you kid yourself into thinking you're not the
> center of attention with all eyes really are on you. That's how I've
> expensed it.
>
> --
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
>
>
> > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:01:03 -0500
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Why we all should buy an Alpa :-)
> >
> > It's hard to be invisible and use a tripod.  And a tripod does no good if
> > the people in your photo are moving and you're trying to get unposed
> > photos.  Tripods aren't good for all kinds of photography,  I do use a
> > monopod sometimes - both for the camera and as a hiking stick!
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Doug Herr
> > <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think tripods in a sense free us up more than they do the opposite as
> >> most
> >>> people think. Tripod use is the secret weapon for really great
> photography
> >>> is my view.
> >>
> >> Try moving a tripod 6 inches to the left in dense brush w/o spooking the
> >> subject.  The vast majority of my photos were made using a monopod
> combined
> >> with a shoulder stock for support.  A rotating tripod collar on the
> lens is
> >> critical to using this support effectively IMHO.
> >>
> >> Doug Herr
> >> Birdman of Sacramento
> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
> >
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com