Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Alan Weinschel wrote: > I got through about four pages and saw nothing remarkable. Is taking > 300 shots without looking through the viewfinder akin to having 100 > monkeys bang on typewriters hoping for a novel. It seems so random and > so contrary to photography as providing for and revealing a unique and > personal "eye". I did it as hipshots precisely so that I wouldn't have any personal attachment to any particular frame, or any worry about what people might think of it. However it is not at all random. While the framing is sloppy to say the least, you are able to grab moments much faster than by moving to the camera to the eye. It all depends what you are looking for. My own rules prevent me from giving you a particular example until the project is over but there are at least four or five images in there that I am happy about and maybe ten or fifteen that would make it into a looser edit. Most street photographers work with a hit-rate of around this order. Anyway the point is not to come up with great pictures but to discover something about the process of editing. - -- John Brownlow - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html