[Leica] French cafe question

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Steve Unsworth showed:
Subject: RE: [Leica] French cafe question


> I've now posted all the shots I have of this group at
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album95 all are full frame with just
> levels and sharpening applied.
>
> I started with the 35mm Summicron and then switched to the Nocti. It
> should be obvious from the framing which are which.
>
> Sorry if I bore anyone by posting so many similar photographs, but they
> may be of interest to some. They were a fascinating group to 
> photograph.<<<<

Steve,
Not boring at all ! It's really a great teaching - learning set of pictures 
illustrating staying with an interesting subject and milking it for all it's 
worth..

For those who think HCB and other well knowns shot one picture we see of 
their work, trust me they didn't just shoot one frame and that was it, walk 
away. Yep in some cases they "got lucky" and did it with one shot. But they 
would have shot many frames capturing the changing moments of a situation. 
Then pulled the one frame that worked.

In reality it's milking a situation for every nuance of change, eye's, 
hands, light, gesture, expression particularly where the photographer is 
"invisible" as Steve is in this case and shoots at each changing moment.

Quite frankly after looking at each frame a few times and weighing one 
against the other you picked the very best frame out of the group with the 
complete eye attention to the speaker. Great captured moment.

I also felt the move to the Noctilux strengthened the frame, as the 35 was a 
little too loose and you'd have cropped when printing. Better to have a full 
frame then requiring major cropping in the darkroom.

Thanks for the series as I'm sure many will learn the worth of multiple 
shooting when the subject is unaware and animated.

ted