Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Dick in effect edited down from hundreds of shots. A shot is only as good as the ones on the bench. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:38:57 -0400 > To:m Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Lincoln Center Fountain silhouettes at night > > Mark - Love the silhouette. The gal in the middle gesturing makes it for > me. > I really like the "joiners," too. They remind me of David Hockney's work > with > 4X6 prints but yours are more ethereal; have a lighter touch. > > Regards, > > Dick > > > > On Jul 31, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100704_225458.jpg.html >> >> >> I don't know how I got such tack sharp results shooting at 100th of a >> second >> with a 200mm focal length with a 1.5 crop circle factor camera at night. >> But its the ultra compact 55-200 again. And so an effective at full frame >> format 300mm @ 100th of a second! >> To me the dioramas presented by people in this At Josie Robertson Plaza >> Fountain; called The Revson Fountain every night are amazing. But I >> usually >> have a wide on my camera. And luckily this night a week or two ago I had a >> long lens on. >> >> The people in the shot when they see me taking pictures of them off off to >> the side assume I'm getting their faces. They don't know I'm just getting >> their outlines. So its an unusual deal. I feel real brave because I don't >> feel like I'm invading anyone's privacy. But THEY don't know that. Much of >> what goes on at the fountain is people taking pictures of each other. But >> with flash usually. Not at this moment though. >> And here I am standing off with a long zoom speaking with a student with a >> camera bag who had the same exact lens on her camera. Both the non VR >> version...who needs virtual reality when we have the real thing? >> >> >> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/11/100111fa_fact_seabrook?printab >> le=true >> Or >> http://tinyurl.com/38474c4 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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