[Leica] IMG Don's PAW Week 10 Las Vegas with no glitz

[luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll)]

Don, Your work is really excellent, I liked particularly one of your
"specialities" the man sleeping in the airport. I think that when you have
an M8 on your hands it is very probable you become enthousiastic shooting
and shooting, the only point I'm surprised is when I enlarge at full size
these pictures I see a lot of grain, well noise, even on your pictures at
relatively low speed (ISO640), is this normal?.

I'm sorry for my comment, I'm educated on a maybe too much classical...and
ancient education, when I was a young man we shot usually at 18DIN (50ASA),
when the 21DIN (100ASA) becomes more popular I still remember my father
saying "this is 21 DIN"..., and 400 ASA (27DIN) was something extraordinary,
I suppose that many old HCB and others was shoot with speeds between 50ASA
and 100ASA, maybe with a digital camera - I have no experience - is too easy
work at great speeds, maybe because we haven't any more the use to see the
pictures enlarged on a darkroom at 24 x 30 cm or so...and we only see them
on our monitors... 

I would appreciate your opinion, if one day I go to an M8, this aspect would
be a certain handicap for me.

Saludos cordiales
Luis  

-----Mensaje original-----
De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de
Don Dory
Enviado el: mi?rcoles, 14 de marzo de 2007 2:26
Para: Leica Users Group
Asunto: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW Week 10 Las Vegas with no glitz

Hi Gang,
Last week was an interesting week as I spent the whole time in LV but really
didn't find the city very interesting.  Could be the security at the Wynn
running me off.  Anyway, let's start with the beginning of the trip in the
airport.  I found this kind soul sleeping through several flights coming and
going out of this gate.  It is a really long short story about why I spent
so much time at this gate:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+10/PAW+
week10a.jpg.html

This next one was from Zabrowski Point in Death Valley with really bad
light.  You do what you can.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+10/PAW+
week10b.jpg.html

Actually among the sand in Death Valley.  If you ever go, make it to the
sand at daybreak as the peoples tracks will really mess up your shots or you
will have to walk a long way over loose sand to find a clean sandbox:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+10/PAW+
week10c.jpg.html

This is the first decent light I had all day in Death Valley:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+10/PAW+
week10d.jpg.html

What can I say, I like abstract designs.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+10/PAW+
week10e.jpg.html

This gent was overly optimistic.  Chatting up a model when her shift doesn't
end for five more hours.  Trust me, her feet will hurt more than any desire
for dinner or a drink.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+10/PAW+
week10f.jpg.html

This last one is a demonstration of why you should always have a camera.
Medium escalator, notice a lot of commotion, look down, think it is an
impersonator, realize it isn't, turn the camera on, jam a focus and click.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+10/PAW+
week10g.jpg.html

Enjoy the evidence of spring if you are Northern, and glory in the end of
summer and the first twinges of fall in the South.  The M8 is just the bomb,
700+ frames in a week when most of the time was training or seeing the 
700+ next
big thing.  IR is a breeze.

If the price is doable, get in line and get one.  I've been on this list
quite a while now and this is the first time I have been so enthusiastic
about hard goods.  I am sorry about the length of the PAW but it is such a
blast.


--
Don
don.dory@gmail.com

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