Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The camera is leading me...the question is where, however...Having different tools put in our hands draws us in different directions....I am not at all inclined to switch from bw to color for shooting people, nor am I looking to move away from the kind of documentary-style people shooting I've been doing to shooting scenic color whatever...BUT...Having this tool does allow me to experiment in ways I might not have previously experimented, for whatever reason. Believe me...it's a tool....and a tool is a tool is a tool....;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve Barbour Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:26 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] PAWs....now tools. > As to playing with color...That is one of the things I am finding most > exciting about digital...I can play! And spend not one dime...I can > afford to really experiment, shooting things I would never have shot > before. Or, if I would have shot them, I'd undoubtedly have then said, > 'why the hell did I shoot this?' The question I come up with with this > stuff, however, even if I sort of like it, is...so what? The next > challenge is getting beyond that...if there is a 'beyond' that... > > Eight new images beginning with > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-55511.html > > > > All very unB.D.;-) > > > > Comments, criticism, etc. most welcome, particularly as this isn't > > what I usually do... "the camera is only a tool"... as a famous Boston guy more than once, succintly put it...now BD....is that camera leading you, or are you leading the camera? .... I dare ask... Steve - -- 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