Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 8/16/05 6:12 PM, "Norm Aubin" <puff11@comcast.net> typed: > Don, > > Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I see what you are saying regarding the > flowers, and the timing of the light on the arches. I'll try and remember > that as I do future images. In some ways it's harder with a 35mm; with a > 4x5 you spend so much time looking and thinking that those things > eventually > come into your conscious thinking, with a 35mm it's to easy to see and > shoot, without the thinking . . . I gotta slow down and look, then look > again . . . > > Thanks again, this helps. > > Norm > Shooting in a gamut of formats is surprisingly helpful because if you say are basically a 35mm shooter but then you spend the weekend shooting 4x5 next time you pick up your Leica you're going to be less wasteful with your shooting. And in a good ways when we shoot 35mm we invariably go though long periods when we get really just too sloppy and it would be good size up our shots more. Work with a tripod. Take spot readings. Shoot slow film. Bracket densities and focusing. Things we do in 4x5 much of it because of the tripod. They should make a finder in which we see up side down like in 4x5 view cameras and other sheet film. This forces us to see the shot for the shapes in the composition. And not be so caught up in the twinkle in their eye. But of course 4x5 need not be groundglass or tripods as there are the press cameras. Speed graphics and Linhof Techniques. But those make as formalize are shooting anyway. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/