Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted: Got it, now. and I'm with you all the way. I guess I was responding to a comment about using the viewfinder. You are talking about something completely different. Case in point, I was shooting some teenagers this afternoon for a PR client. I needed them looking honest and human, and they were too "on." I tried long lenses; imagine shooting with a 300mm in a small classroom. Nothing was working because the camera was drawing too much attention, It wasn't me they were responding to. I put away the SLRs, and took out the Leica M [with Tom A's M-winder, ;-)] and just sat down with them. After 10 minutes they began to ignore me, 3 feet away, shooting with a 28mm and it was like I disappeared. But I was always looking throught the camera. Tom <<My point is, "If you are a, for a better name, "street photographer" and do this without looking through the camera while focusing and composing and then taking "sneaky images" illustrates you are no photographer at all, but merely a pointy shootie with a wide angle lens stopped down to f 22. It also illustrates the photgrapher dosen't have the balls to put the camera to his eye and take the picture!>>