Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan- thanks for your researching. Stasys ---- Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Thanks Ted! > > To answer your question: no, in general I do not have a theme for the > week. Sometimes if there is a big event going on, like the Mayday demo > or the Hogueras de San Juan, then of course I go out and shoot it and > expect a certain kind of images. And if I am making a panorama, then I > plan ahead in terms of going to a certain spot at a certain time of > day etc. But in a normal week, when nothing special is going on and my > life consists of going to work in the morning, coming home in the > evening, walking my dog, perhaps walking to El Sitio with my wife to > have a couple of pints...during such a week I simply carry the M8 with > me at all times and photograph whatever catches my eye. The theme that > you see in the PAW emerges during the editing process. > > In general, I do not have any deep ideological agenda with my > photography. I just want to show what life in Alicante looks like, now > that I am part of it. > > And appreciate you and others looking and commenting on it. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > > > Nathan showed: > > > > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 29: human traffic Alicante > > > > > > > > A week of human traffic around Alicante. Any se?oritas and se?oras > > > > appearing in the images are purely incidental and none have been > > > > objectified as far as I can tell. I have also been careful to keep the > > > > gender ratio as close to 50/50 as practicable: > > > > > > > > http://www.fotocycle.dk:80/paws/?page_id=271 > > > > > > > > Hi Nathan, > > > > Each time you post a new set of photographs, or it seems? When you > > start > > out, do you have a theme of subject in your mind to watch for? Or is > > it > > purely walking the street shooting whatever visual moment catches > > your eye? > > > > > > > > In other words ? ?this morning I?m looking for father and child type > > situations?? Or old men doing nothing or something off the norm or > > quietly > > napping?? Or whatever subject you may think of? It seems you always > > or > > nearly so, have a visual continuity of subjects making the series > > far more > > interesting rather than a rambling all over the wall collection of > > happy > > snaps without any connection than they are some kind of meaningless > > photo. > > > > The other side of this is to go out open minded and let the visuals > > take > > their course as and if they happen? I?ve shot in both fashions when > > shooting > > documentary assignments and had success with both. But the theme > > seems to > > work better because you look harder with a start and end point. > > > > Just a passing thought that might help others who leave home for a > > walk > > thinking? ?I?m going to shoot some pictures.? Then when the walk is > > over > > they may or may not have some neat images or just a bunch of > > exposures. > > Worse? No interesting observations creating keeper photos ending with > > ?select all, delete all!? :-( > > > > Ted > > > > > > > > PS: > > > >>>> Any se?oritas and se?oras appearing in the images are purely > >>>> incidental > > and none have been > > > > objectified as far as I can tell.<<< > > > > Please do not let the previous nonsense of PC ramblings due to an over > > active mind block your vision in shooting photographs as you see > > them in the > > light of the day or night! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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