[Leica] Re: London challenge shoot

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Well I watched the PBS video and on that he said that the project
rested in a drawer for the better part of a year or two before one of
the NG editors looked through the images. The project, he said,
originated entirely as something to focus him on his craft. Several
times he discussed tossing it in and not continuing and once he had
his wife shine a flashlight onto a waterfall for an image that would
not otherwise have been taken on the day.

I haven't had a chance to look through the book, but I saw the images
on the television and some of them are killers. Others are merely very
good.

Still - it's a great project.

Now if he has continuous strips of film with the images on them I'd be
convinced but as it stands I'm going with his story and agree with
Phong - sour grapes from shooters who shoot more film in a week than
I've purchased in my lifetime.

I'm finding that I take a lot of photos - both digital and film
because I'm still trying to figure out the craft let alone the art of
photography. With digital it's learning the different exposure
required. I bracket a lot and try to learn from how the RAW images
look in photoshop.

For my black and white work I'm trying to shoot a LOT less now,
thinking a lot more and trying to act like I had a big view camera
instead of my M6. That's serving me well also.

Adam

I
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 17:01:40 -0500, Tina Manley <images@infoave.net> wrote:
> At 10:24 PM 12/29/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >And while we are on it how many per roll do people like Ted, Tina etc 
> >average?
> >
> >feli
> 
> For me, it depends entirely on the light.  If I'm photographing in the dark
> with a Noctilux and pushing 400 film to 800, I think I'm lucky to get two
> good shots per 36 exposure roll.  If the light is perfect, and I've been
> there long enough for people to forget that I'm taking photographs, and I
> have model released signed in advance by the family, I can get 36 out of 36
> keepers.  That's not very often, though!  And now we have to deal with
> digital and 170 exposures per 2GB card for the Mark II.  I get less keepers
> with digital because I do a lot more experimenting, but I don't think that
> is a bad thing!!
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
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