Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice, Dave - My favorites are 34 and 35 - 34 is a warm portrait, and there's something about 35 that really draws me in...It's probably the simplicity of the shot and what I see as the toughness of the lady... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of David Mason Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:46 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Re: Iraq occupation protest - Chicago 3/19/05 Oh, for those who care about these things - the b&w are from my M7 with 35 ASPH Summilux on Ilford XP2 400 - the color shots are from a Panasonic FZ20 at ISO 200 It was a very grey day - I thought the FZ20 performed quite poorly in those conditions. On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:39:44 -0500, David Mason <masonster@gmail.com> wrote: > [sorry, long paragraph to get to me sharing some photos] > > I was in Chicago briefly this weekend and took the opportunity to > wander over to the protest against American presence in Iraq. For you > neo-con-death-cult-members you will be happy to hear that the turn-out > was about 200 or 300 people to about 2000 police officers. For what > its worth, I think protests are a waste of time as they are so > overplayed and tend to evolve into unfocussed bitching about some > supposed 'enemy' . However, we all know they can present interesting > photo practice as well. As I was thinking about how I don't like > protests I was also thinking about how I generally don't like protest > photos as they tend to be just like those photos that are termed > "street photography" but are really just blurred shots of people > moving. So in my attendence to this event I decided that I would try > to ask permission to take people's photographs as much as possible > (unless I saw something great that needed a quick shot). Most of these > shots are taken with the permission of the subjects and I was > interested in how some of them look candid despite that. My attempt, > which I think I only scratched the surface of, was to show the variety > of good people who do oppose the actions their government has taken. I > was less interested in the people yelling at the cops although I did > grab one or two of them too. > > http://dmason.net/protest/ > > Comments welcome as long as they are about the photos and not a debate > on the politics. > > Cheers, > > Dave > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information