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Subject: [Leica] IMG: PAW 16 (ric)
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:13:03 -0700
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On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Ric Carter wrote:

> I tried to come up with some answer to your questions, but really couldn't.
> 
> The truth of the matter is that I point the camera at something that 
> attracts me
> 
> i load the images into the computer and find the ones that still attract me
> 
> i make adjustments until they make me happy (a standard that some find too 
> saturated, or too loosely cropped, or too whatever...)
> 
> i think i see a difference also. when i started using leica a few years 
> ago, i felt like i woke up. i got excited about taking pictures again.
> 
> there is just something more REAL in the images that i can't put my finger 
> on--maybe it's an immediacy in the workings of the camera, perhaps the way 
> that the lenses cut images onto film or a sensor


great question/great answer...


maybe ...

total hands on control, from start to finish?

in any case Ric, lovely photos from you...always interesting....



Steve
> 
> i don't know
> 
> thanks for looking though
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:55 PM, philippe.amard wrote:
> 
>> Lovely colour set Ric.
>> 
>> I figure all of them where taken with the M8, and as I had been asking 
>> questions about the colours when you shot film, the question now is: how 
>> do you manage to get M9 colours on an M8 ... I mean they look so 
>> different from film (the leica signature), and yet have such a strong 
>> identity they can't be mistaken for another brand.
>> I'm not sure I'm clear on all this though.
>> 
>> Wonderul eye, gear and selection.
>> 
>> Amiti?s de Metz
>> Philippe
>> 
>> Le 27 avr. 10 ? 19:52, Ric Carter a ?crit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> Got out and around more last week. Gosh, I'm loving the spring weather 
>>> here!
>>> 
>>> <http://cartersxrd.net/Site/PAW_2010/Pages/PAW_16.html>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2b5s4yd
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: PAW 16 (ric))
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Message from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard) ([Leica] IMG: PAW 16 (ric))
Message from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] IMG: PAW 16 (ric))