Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roy Feldman wrote: > > MJ- I really wish you wouldn't leave, as I value your thoughts more often > than once every 37th frame. Can't you just lurk and pop up a little more > often than once every year and a half? > > Wish I thought of this before- I am used to shooting with 4X5 and MF. As a > consequence I rely too much on the cross hatch view finder. Since switching > to the M I get so "sucked" into the screen I often forget to check my > verticals , when I try to- I miss my 'checker board'. Lately I've been using > the frame preview lever to find lines that help my equilibrium. Seems > obvious doesn't it. > Or as this is 35mmland and not the more formal larger formats you could shoot a lot more diagonals...really drop that shoulder! Can't decide between a vertical and a horizontal? Shoot both at the same time! Shoot Diagonals!. Makes for dynamic lines, compositions...fun...creative...different. I had an editor keep asking for more action in the pictures. (Of people sitting around with drinks in their hands, in on the scenes column). I started shooting all diagonals the they leaped off the page like they were skateboarding!!! Apparently Brooks have some more Avant Garde teachers now because a friend of mine was taught there to NOT have level horizons. Now what is the world coming too??!! Mark Rabiner