Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Slobodan It all boils down to a few simple to understand concepts having nothing to do with Rollie Days. If it feels good, exploit it. If it fits well then that makes good composition. Or as old Eddie use to say "composition is the clearest way of seeing". There are some of Daniel's 2 1/4 images whose elements fall right into place. Some, to me, don't quite make it as far as composition. Still very nice images but lacking that visual organization which jumps off the page. Just my opinion and when I said 6x9 I was talking about an enlarged 35mm. Uncropped, of course. I don't think this means all of us using 35's are hung up on the Greek thing but I enjoy working fast. Not sloppy, just fast. To me, relevance relates to feeling and not the latest hot craze. I enjoy quite a bit of what I see along the lines of Kyle's work or many of the latest Magnum shooters. The bottom line though is to do one's own thing. Nothing else is real and if not real then it will fall by the wayside. I've seen shots made with 4x5's and Rollies which have plenty of power but the old times never did managed to convince me my Nikon was unsuitable for news work. Maybe there were those young ones who made them feel a bit archaic. Walt (now archaic, not feeling inferior and crusty as a sore-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs) Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > What you're experienced was an early post-diluvian eruption from > arguments long ago about what was real in photography. > The period that brought on the onslaught of the Nikon, with its > accompanying F-36 motor-drive, was also a time of contention between > the old timers and the young turks. The old timers instilled in the > younger crew a sense of inferiority with regard to their skills and > abilities. > It was a well known fact, in those days, that real photographers used > MF and preferably LF. The Nikon head bangers, well...were just that, > a bunch of young upstarts who couldn't shoot their way out of a > smudged skylight filter. For some reason as the young turks aged, > they never lost their defensiveness. The square was forever to be poo- > pooed. > Now, mind you, I don't ascribe to any of these mind sets. For me true > art is looking through the editorial and magazine pages and copying > whatever new style is in vogue to keep myself relevant. Now, that's art! > > Slobodan Dimitrov > > > > > On Oct 31, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote: > >> Walt Johnson wrote: >> >>> Very few square photographs appear well composed to me. I'd go 6x9 >>> and be fine. >> >> >> I beg your pardon: >> >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/2006v22/06v22-0011.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/2006v13/06v13-0001.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/2006v15/06v15-0039.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/04v16-0028a-65429.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/04v10-61939.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/22-37338.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/v26-0012-47928.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/merna-sandy-37312.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/23-37335.jpg.html >> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/shoebox/ nyeve2006/05v52-0015.jpg.html >> >> Daniel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >