[Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ä nder Lens: Response to Mark

[grdalton at hotmail.com (Gary Dalton)]

You make an excellent point.

In the "29 posts" -- I hope you didn't take time to count them all -- the 
subject of equipment certainly dominates, and there isn't a word from me or 
a question from others about how a certain lens or lenses might drive what I 
am interested in doing. So here are my notions.

I like to shoot people, up close in their environment, with substantial 
background near and around them. I want the shot to grab enough of the 
surroundings to tell the story of who they are, where they are, what 
artifacts are in their environment, and what they're doing. I would like to 
do a better job of this especially in tight quarters.

I like to take photos of urban settings:  I want that building, fountain, 
plaza, park, intersection, etc. -- all of it -- not pieces of it. And, if 
not a dominating feature, I want as much of that specific feature's 
environmental context as possible. 

I can say something similar about natural outdoor settings. Panoramas 
interest me as do massive natural structures or living things. I want to 
shoot all of El Capitan at sunset and include the trees, the sky, the 
ripples Merced River in natural proportion in the same shot. I would like to 
capture the desolation and the expanse of, say, a ghost town like Bodie, but 
with the artifacts (buildings and mills, etc.) not lost in that expanse. I 
want all of a Giant Sequoia.

Finally, and not related to the Voigtlander 21, I love macro work. Sticking 
a macro lens down the mouth of a bearded iris for its brilliant colors, 
shades, and shapes -- and whatever else might be inside. I'd like to take a 
shot of a seed pushing out of the dirt, a bee in an almond blossom, and a 
paper wasp constructing its nest.

Is that better, Mark? With respect to macro work with an M2, which lens 
would you suggest?




> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:35:18 -0400
> From: mark at rabinergroup.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ? nder Lens
> 
> Wide enough for WHAT!????
> 
> No ones asking and your not saying.
> On a thread of 29 posts.
> 
> Me I'm tired of my ball peen hammer I'm thinking of getting a framing
> hammer.... Its all so meaningless!
> 
> A lens is a tool;
> Talk PHOTOGRAPHY!
> WHAT KIND DO YOU DO?????
> SUBJECT MATTER???
> URL for a gallery?
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 

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