Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Jun 23, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Rob McClure wrote: > > > Any ideas how to break this slump? > > Grab your head by the hair and shake the cobwebs loose, basically. Change lenses, change film. Make some radical, utterly outrageous change in your shooting style, even if just as an exercise, which will force you to go back to LOOKING through the viewfinder rather than just seeing through it, or make you consider other ways of doing things. It's amazing how much you don't notice until you force yourself to look at life from someplace in left field. This evening I have an assignment to do portraits of a couple with some sort of fancy car (didn't tell me what). I'm taking two rigs: 20D with 50/1.4 and 128 meg CF -- just enough for insurance shots because the editor I'm working with has less imagination than her desk chair and I DO want to get paid, and Bessa L with 15 Heliar and Velvia 50, because I'm getting into a bit of the same "been there shot that" funk myself, and I'm going to do something I would normally never even think about. I have no clue if it'll work, but I've never tried it before and I'm damn well going to have fun finding out. -- R. Clayton McKee www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 dig pager 281/510-3588