Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for looking Don. Sounds we both found the same "Picture Spot." It would be interesting to see some of yours. Are they posted? I had a great afternoon there. Shot 7 rolls of film. I'll probably post a few more shots from my visit in a few days. >Richard, >It is always interesting to see how different people see the same spot. When >I was at the cloisters, I shot the bowl of flowers lit by a shaft of light >in the chapel, I shot down one of the rows of columns in the same spot you >shot http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/06_02_0177_web , and I shot a couple >playing touchy/feely at the end of that same corridor. > Thanks for showing. > Don >don.dory@gmail.com > > On 10/18/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> The Cloisters in upper Manhattan is a reproduction of a Medieval >> castle set on a tall bluff overlooking the Hudson. It's about >> 70-years old. The Metropolitan Museum of Art operates it as a museum >> of Medieval art. I have been trying to get people in my photos more >> often and used this visit to push the envelope a bit. >> >> Visitors looked at art: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/03_29_0341_web >> >> Studied the castle: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/03_23_0335_web >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/04_15_0302_web >> >> and just took in the warm late-September mid-afternoon sun. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/06_02_0177_web >> >> These were all shot with an M7 and either a current version 50 >> Elmarit or 35 mm Summicron ASPH on Fuji Press 400 film. The images >> are from professional 2 K x 3K scans converted to B&W in Photoshop >> with only the usual cropping and level tweaking done in connection >> with the conversion. >> >> Comments welcome as always. >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> Boston MA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick