Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, May 6, 1997 3:37 AM, Ian Stanley <mailto:ian@mos.com.np> wrote: >To make >a long story short - I got the shots I needed in Panauti, got some great >shots of golden wheat in the fields with the Himal in the background. A great story, thanks Ian! I like photographing grand vistas, but when those aren't working out, I like turning the ordinary into something extraordinary: While in London, I found myself queued up for a cab outside of Victoria Station and became fascinated with the muted colors of the line of cabs, as well and the bright glass front of the station entrance beyond. Taking out my M4-2 and 50 Summicron, I began happily firing away, as though it were the greatest scene I had ever seen. To my amusement, soon others started taking notice, and before long, everyone was snapping away! I figure that everyone who's ever been to London has pictures of Big Ben, double-decker buses, The Tower and Picadilly Circus, but to the best of my knowledge, I'm the only one who's got a photo of punk rockers performing outside of Burger King, or of blue-and-white lawn chairs set out near the daffodils on a cold spring morning. When I visited Yosemite Nat'l Park, my favorite shots were not of grand vistas (the sky was uniformly bland every day) but of tiny, metallic beetles on the milkweed plants, and of dried grasses which seemed almost a series of ocean waves, rendered in gold. Closer to home, I am intrigued by the quality of morning light, as it shines through a grove of ponderosa pines. Unaltered photos have too much of a soot-and-chalk appearance and lack the luminosity that I see in person. I may try again using a blue filter and perhaps lowering the contrast through processing. This should be most interesting.