Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leo, Why do they burn rattan chairs? Is it for a finish or patina? Overstock? :-) Cheers, Jeffrey Fass - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesson, Leo W" <LWWesson@pier1.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] new photos > Carl, > > The monks and the blurred procession shot were shot at Wat Benchamabophit (the Marble Temple) in Bangkok. Wat Benchamabophit is one of the most important temples to the Thais and the Royal Family goes there often for special occasions. The occasion that I was there for was the Buddhist Lenten Celebration. One on the Princesses were there, as were about a hundred guards and thousands of worshipers. The guards wouldn't let me take pictures of the Princess before the ceremony (they would shine their flashlights directly into my lens) but once the ceremony started you could go anywhere and do anything as long as you didn't get in the way.Thais are very tolerent of Westerners as long as there aren't too many of them and are not disrespectful.The ceremony that occurs it that the gathered people , led by the oldest monk make three trips around the temple carrying candles and chanting (Candlelight Procession). After that the monks go into the temple to pray (Monks Bowing). Every! > thing is basically candlelight or really low light. Too dark for my M6 to meter (hence my previous questions about low light metering capabilities of the M6 and 7) so I had to pull out my WAG meter (wild ass guess). Was shooting Fuji 1600 till I ran out, then shot whatever 400 I had pushed to 1600, shooting at mostly 1 sec f/2. I knew that the film would be either camera blurred or motion blurred. I was lucky and I was unlucky.I have a lot of other shots that are almost great, and if they had been sharper they would have been awsome...As awsome as the memory. > > Leo > > ---------- > > From: Carl Pultz > > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 9:21 AM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] new photos > > > > Leo wrote: > > > I would like to post a link to some photos I took on a trip to Asia this > > year. Feel free to comment... I appreciate the time that all of you great > > shooters take to look at images. > > > > > > http://homepage.mac.com/leosarv/PhotoAlbum5.html > > > > > > Leaving the great aside, I'll comment anyway. > > > > I like these very much: > > > > monks bowing > > candlelite procession > > sleeping > > dancing girl > > > > The boy could be dreaming of his truck, and that shot is very well composed > > and exposed. The girl is perfectly timed and framed. The blurred shots > > might be just lucky, but you had the imagination to try them and they're > > really good - there's nothing wrong with luck! The monks could be a little > > darker, but I like the skewed angle. > > > > Two others: The crocodile farm is almost great. I suspect that if you could > > have got a little farther back, it would have been better. Trimming the > > left side helps, I think. > > > > Wanted to mention lantau island, also, because it is well seen, but not > > quite as well executed. Nothing you could do about the post in the center, > > but with a little more care the placement of the women and the umbrella > > could have found better harmony with the background. > > > > All of the photos have something interesting in them, those are the ones > > that stand out to me. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Carl > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html