Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Portraiture without the blinding flash.
From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@cyberhighway.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:36:46 -0500
References: <9b.963ac83.26d34dbd@aol.com>

I believe this guy may be a she but I am not sure. I seem to remember seeing it
in a local MS bookstore. The pictures are haunting.

Disfromage@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 08/21/2000 11:40:50 PM, Mark Rabiner writes:
>
> << check out this guys stuff:
> http://www.lenswork.com/sadams03.htm
>
> Flashbulbs are blinding.
> A pop though a mini softbox with a Norman or Lumedyne is barley noticeable
> because of the ultrashort duration. I think that is what we are looking at
> here
> on these shots. >>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> You are basicaly correct.  In an interview with Shelby Lee Adams in Lenswork
> Magazine, he says that he uses strobe because he is working with 4x5 and his
> subjects often select where they will be photographed with no thought given
> to the quality or quantity of the light.  An interesting point he made was
> that he is photographing very hard working people, and he gains a certain
> amount of respect when they see him sweating while he wrestles with lights
> and cables.  He works alone-no assistant.  It also helps that he was born in
> the same area he is working in.  I like his stuff.  Check out his book
> Apalachian Legacy.
>
> Richard Wasserman

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