Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some shots in Chinatown would be nice. I remember (15 years ago) seeing ladies walking down the street ripping the skin off of turkey feet with their teeth. Skip the shots of the Golden Gate bridge...any Dirty Harry flick will cover that territory. ;-) Jeffery On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Richard Man wrote: > I am thinking about just trekking up to the City (aka San Francisco) as > many > weekends as I can to do some street style photos... > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I sense that there are fewer fans of street photography, but I cannot say >> why. The Street Photography forum seemed to go from B&W film to color >> digital about 7-8 years ago (when digital became completely usable), and >> the >> division between street photography and other genres seems to have become >> fuzzy as a result. Lluis's photos seem to still be squarely in the genre >> of >> street photography. And I see less of this every day. Some of the street >> photography adherents on the LUG seem to have drifted away, and some have >> died. Steve LeHuray really lived and breathed street photography with a >> Leica M that made Garry Winogrand's M4 seem "minty" (ebay term) by >> comparison. Maybe the SPers are a dying breed. After last week's heated >> discussion of about 100 posts on SP, I hope nobody was scared off. >> >> I want to get back into Lluis mode soon. >> >> Jeffery >> >> >> On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> >>> Is street photography dying? I just returned from a major NY area photo >> show >>> in a community rife with advertising, commercial and TV photographers. >> There >>> were 60 exhibitors, many of them successful photo professionals. Only one >>> offered what could be called a street photo. There were just three >> pictures >>> of people, one in the street photo and the other two reasonably formal >>> portraits. The rest were carefully arranged landscapes, flowers, and >> travel >>> scenes with studied attention to the rules of composition. There was >> little >>> spontaneity and no apparent joy. It looked like the final exam in a photo >>> school composition class. Everyone was trying to be an ARTIST. How boring >>> compared to the LUG. Fortunately the wine and cheese were good. >>> >>> Larry Z >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < > http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> > // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information