Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It isn't just what many of us did in the golden olden days... manually focus on the near eye or eyes because we had been taught that was the way it should be. Or many of the other lost things of the past by the newbees of today's digital photography. However that may not be fair; it's just the basics of photography so many people using a camera today have absolutely no idea what the hell photography is! Point the camera at arms length. click. "WOW I'm a photographer." However this is what it's all about! This is what photography is all about! OBSERVATION! LIGHT - EYES - ACTION - CLICK! And if you don't understand these elements first before all the digital techie stuff, your photos are going to look like exposures of . "What the heck was I thinking when I took that??????" Old doc ted:-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Doug Herr Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:27 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] The Leica M8.2 Experience Richard Clompus wrote: >John, you made me laugh tonight. You are absolutely right about some >of the newer digital only photographers not really knowing some of the >basics. Some can run rungs around me on computer processes though. So true! Neither can some people get the subject's eye in focus. I was taught this is a very big NO-NO. See http://www.freelists.org/post/leicareflex/Disappointment-appreciation Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.13/2237 - Release Date: 07/14/09 18:03:00