[Leica] Shooting styles in Burma

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Wonderful!  I think you have the right idea about people photography.

Tina


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 4:37 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> Burma proved to be fertile ground for photos and there are many photo
> tours coming to the country.
> I noticed a great difference in shooting styles among photographers.
>
> There were the Canon Brigades with tripods and long zoom lenses like this
> group at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon;
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/CanonBrigadew.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/c7mgujl
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> I didn't care for their sneaky shooting style when the Burmese I met
> enjoyed having their pictures taken and were prepared to interact with you.
>
> My style was quite different - I liked to talk to the subjects or at least
> hand signal and smile with them. This is me in action taken by son-in-law
> Ian:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/Hcinteractw.jpg.html
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cjtuff7
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> in order to get pictures like this one of Mom and Babe - X Pro 1 and 60mm
> f2.4
>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/MomBabew.jpg.html
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cmdjknz
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> Of course, sometimes, lovers like these under their umbrella don't want
> you to see them nor interact with you:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/UmbrellaLoversw.jpg.html
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/clojr2m
>
> Please look large. C& C always welcome.
>
> Howard
> (on tropical Pender today)
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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