Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, that is a great example. Thanks for showing it. Out of curiosity: what camera did you use for that? Looking at the whole sequence made me think of the great advantage of rangefinders vs. SLRs when capturing "the decisive moment". With a SLR it's always somewhat of a guess... On the other hand, if one routinely goes for the 150:1 ratio, digital is the only thing that makes sense... Regards, Juan On May 25, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > With recent talk of staging, I thought it might be nice to let you poke > around in my head and see how an image is made. Long ago I realized > that I'd > never be a good enough nor a dedicated enough photographer to go out > and > capture things "in the wild" and that my own thoughts were bizarre > enough > that I was happy to entertain myself with fabricating images. A few > years > ago I realized that I was a "fraudumentary" photographer. In any > event, some > of you may recall my photo of a month or so ago of pinup model > Victoria Blue > running down a hallway. I had a basic idea of what I wanted when she > arrived > it just took 150 times for the decisive moment on film to match the > decisive > moment I had seen in my head. In any event, here's about 100 of those > images, one right after the other. When I saw the last image I said > "that's > it! We're done". And we were. > > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/2004/victoria-blue/ > > (these are thumbnails only, they don't link to larger images.) > > Keep pushing that shutter button, it'll come unstuck. > > Kyle > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information