Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The goal: To sharpen the photographic skills by not only recognizing an opportunity, but also recognizing a film-wasting dud, to know when the moment's decisive, and when the exposure's right--the first time. How: Take 1 36-exposure roll of color print film (your choice) and attempt to get 36 _good_ photos out of it. Or if you normally shoot color, try this in b&w. The kicker: They're going to be commercially machine-printed-no supervising allowed (but you get to choose who does the work, and on what machine). Max price allowed for developing and printing; say about $25US. The trick here is to anticipate how your compositions are likely to turn out when auto-printed, and shoot accordingly I've been carrying around a 2nd M body just for this project, and it's been tricky so far: Already caught myself being sloppy on the timing and wasting a frame or two. Hope to have the first batch of prints to show in a couple of weeks. Jeff S __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html