Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] was: Pro/Am. now: shoot from the heart!
From: "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@actek.com.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:38:44 +1000

Ted Grant wrote:

Snip:

Horst, don't waste time with all the details, shoot what catches your eye

> and moves you to feel the moment. Focus and press the button with feeling!
> Even as an amateur you don't want to spend too much time fiddling and
> setting-up, just get the camera to your eye and shoot, the more you shoot
> the better you'll become.
>
> It's all very simple, the more you fiddle the more you'll screw-up.  Keep
> in mind,  "we learn by doing!"  And with that in mind, just get on with
> lots of exposures and sooner or later it all comes to-gether. Then you'll
> shoot instinctively using the feeling within yourself.

Ted,  thanks for your kind advise . I would say, you have got something there. I
will try and do it your way. Intermingled with a bit of my old way.I always say,
listen to you elders.

Regards, Horst Schmidt