[Leica] are you horizontal, vertical, or mixed?

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Get a Bronica 645RF. The perfect medium format rangefinder camera for
vertical guys.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Eric
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:46 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] are you horizontal, vertical, or mixed?

I noticed something peculiar...I'm a vertical guy when it comes to
pictures
of people.

My latest thumbnails:

http://canid.com/current/thumbs.html

My thumbnails of my daughter:

http://canid.com/johanna/thumbs.html

I probably shoot half horizontals and half verticals.  For most
situations,
I have both formats.  Not all.  But many.  I hadn't realized how much I
selectively choose vertical pics for scanning and printing, though,
until I
realized that all from this weekend's developing session that I chose to
scan were verticals.  And then noticed how many more verticals I've
chosen
of my daughter.

When it comes to "urban" landscape, I'm about half and half:

http://canid.com/sioux_falls/thumbs.html

I'm currently reading Jim Brandenburg's book, _Chased by the Light_.
One of
his pictures is a vertical shot of 3 bear cubs up a tree.  He relays the
story of how he was trying to go with all horizontal shots.  In fact,
this
is the *only* vertical picture in the entire book.  He was a bit shaken
by
the mother black bear mock charging him, huffing, and snapping her teeth
from a few feet away.  Kept reminding himself that black bear rarely
kill
and eat photographers.  He made a few exposures, and only later realized
that the stress of the situation had contributed to his momentarily
forgetting he was creating all horizontal compositions for his book.  :)

--
Eric
http://canid.com/

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