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Subject: [Leica] East Side Flour Man on break
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:45:17 +0100
References: <C99800AA.B5E9%mark@rabinergroup.com> <915C9590-9241-498D-BC8B-235751F955B9@btinternet.com>

Does the guy sell flour or flowers? I am confused.

Nathan Wajsman
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On Mar 6, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Charlie Chan wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> This is great - an insight into another world. The plastic diffuses the 
> colours slightly and gives it a vintage feel.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Charlie Chan
> Cheltenham, UK
> 
> topoxforddoc at btinternet.com
> www.cancer-surgeon.co.uk
> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> On 5 Mar 2011, at 20:00, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> With video assist
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/110304_235834.jpg.html
>> 
>> F 1.4 at 120th @ iso 800 with the 28 1.4 Nikkor.
>> He's behind a sheet of murky thick plastic.
>> Which I think is sharper and more clear in an image than it is in real 
>> life
>> as you walk by and look at it.
>> I think the plastic with the black and white video feed sets up the 
>> flowers
>> very well; and also the fact that the panels turn it into a triptych.
>> 
>> Shot at 1.5 minutes before midnight. Last night.
>> If I waited another minute and a half  it would have been a Saturday 
>> Flower.
>> And who would want to look at that? Not me that's for sure.
>> I was committed to shooting it in black and white as I've been doing for a
>> month now. But this one begged to differ.  "put my colors back in!" it
>> screamed at me.
>> 
>> I was walking home from the movie having just seen the Phillip Dick Mat
>> Damon movie. Which I thought was pretty ok. Real worth it.  A reall Friday
>> night movie. And a real New York movie with the multitudes of local
>> locations... Which I can locate.
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------
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>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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