Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Human Traffic
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:11:51 -0400

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>From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Human Traffic
>Date: Thu, Apr 27, 2000, 2:35 PM
>

> Johnny Deadman wrote:
>><Snip>
>> If there actually is something there it's even better but it is not
>> necessary for this trick to work. The subject will automatically look behind
>> them to see what you were actually shooting. To add to the illusion, you can
>> look all around you and frame some other stuff up as if searching for
>> another shot... all the time completely ignoring your main subject, who by
>> now will be annoyed that you do not find him/her as interesting as everyone
>> else. Now you return to your non-existent tree, check it out once more, and
>> put the camera back to your eye.
>><Snip>
>
>
> I did that with a deer last May.
> It was happy when it thought I was mainly interested in "shooting" other
things...
> and went on munching.
> Mark Rabiner
>
Yeah! Well big deal! I did that last winter while sitting on a beach in Key
West with a topless babe a few feet away.
Steve
Annapolis