Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] DMR: first year (long)
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Wed Apr 18 20:10:04 2007

Doug,

Text would be nice if the story behind the photo is told.  Or something 
along that line.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>: 
-------------- 


> 
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: 
> > 
> > Great photographs - but surely more an advertisement for the 
> > photographer 
> > rather than the equipment? I seem to remember equally enchanting 
> > photographs 
> > with film? 
> 
> Thank you Jayanand, I appreciate the compliments. The equipment 
> certainly doesn't "make" the photograph; as I see it each set of 
> equipment and technologies has limits, and when the photographer runs 
> in to those limits changing tools can be the catalyst that allows the 
> photographer to push his personal boundaries beyond where the 
> previous equipment had stopped him. In this case the image quality 
> limits of fast color film have been eliminated so I'm working more 
> where I'd previously been repulsed by grainy, contrasty film. 
> 
> > I am eagerly waiting for the book... 
> 
> I've been hearing a lot of this lately and it's been a dream of mine 
> for a long time... now is as good a time to make it a reality as I'll 
> ever have... 
> 
> I'm looking for ideas: what text to go with the photos. A 
> description of what was going on a few inches behind the camera, 
> perhaps? What I learned from the process? Feedback please! 
> 
> Doug Herr 
> Birdman of Sacramento 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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