[Leica] Bill Pierce on the Leica today

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A Leica M6 does not make a cat a half foot taller.  The cat is a half foot 
taller because it is a half foot taller.

Some photographers just grab attention and some do not.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:40 pm
Subject: Re: [Leica] Bill Pierce on the Leica today

> On 7/13/05 7:38 AM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> typed:
> 
> > I have to disagree, Mark - Unobtrusiveness is an issue in any 
> shooting> situation in which you don't want to become part of the 
> story, in which you
> > don't want to be shooting people reacting to you shooting. The 
> last thing I
> > want when shooting a wedding is having people aware of me. 
> Obviously they
> > often are, but the less they are, the better. But of course this 
> comes down
> > to personal photographic style, vision, whatever. And there's 
> more than one
> > way to shoot anything. :-)
> > 
> BD perhaps I have delusions of whatever but it seemed to me that 
> what ever I
> would do whatever camera I'd use or position I'd take, attitude or 
> whatever,corner in the room I'd hide in, post in a church I'd lurk 
> behind it seemed
> to me that everyone in any room in a wedding I'd shoot was hyper 
> aware of me
> at most times. Reasons? I don't know for one you're not in their 
> family and
> they know it. Another perhaps that to get the kind of shots you 
> need to get
> volume wise and quality wise you can try to disguise the 
> "intensity" in
> which you  shoot but I think its just impossible. It's like it's 
> that Crumb
> cover of Fritz the Cat goes to China, a James Bond takeoff as I 
> recall.There are teems of half foot mice and you're a full one 
> foot cat. To think
> for one second that every one in the situation is not keenly aware 
> of you I
> think is positive thinking to the over extent. I also came to 
> think that
> making a huge effort to "blend in" to such s family situation is 
> kind of
> negative. Kind of rudely presumptions. You're not in their family 
> you're"the help".
> Also I think I came to feel that a certain professional aloofness 
> helps. I
> think Ted said stuff a few weeks ago which wouldn't agree with this.
> 
> In a wedding it has gotten to be that everyone is playing with 
> their cameras
> and your the one whose a little bit more on top of how to work 
> yours. That's
> ok I guess.
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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