[Leica] Staunton's Bar 4 panel pano

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)]

Hi Dr. Ted,
Thanks for looking and commenting. "See it and shoot it" works for  
just about every scene,
as you say and have been practicing for so many many years.
Cheers
Howard

> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:55:46 -0700
> From: <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Staunton's Bar 4 panel pano
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> Hi Howard,
> Very nice pano...
>
> However what I really like about it is... your simple explanation in  
> a post
> of how you shot it with a no fuss, no muss manner..
>
> Set camera for exposure, hand hold and click away! simple! :-) Or  
> close to
> that. :-)
>
> It's this fashion of shooting I love so much without twenty four  
> hours of
> fussing, tripods, testing etc etc and it goes on! It can almost work  
> out to
> the best living moment "was there" to "GONE!" :-(
>
> My life as a photographer has been, see it, shoot it! No thought any  
> more
> than that! Have I blown any? Yep and I'm the first to admit it! From
> photographing Queen Elizabeth with invisible film in an empty  
> camera, to any
> number of other things and kicked myself in the ass Royally on more  
> than one
> occasion! :-) But your description is how I would've done it also.  
> KISS!!
>
> Sorry I can't find the quote, but it was a no brainer, "see -- shoot
> basically!" :-)
>
> One can know every technical detail in the photographic world, have  
> every
> little dinky bob item with you, think it out for twenty hours and  
> still
> shoot nothing but an absolutely technical perfect photograph that  
> will be
> beautifully executed technically! But? Just be a simple piece of  
> crap from
> over doing all the techie stuff!
> In your case thank goodness that wasn't the case! Good on you!
>
> The truth is.... "Feel it in your heart and it will work! " ... KISS
>
> Sorry rather long winded about a well shot pano photograph ! :-)
> cheers,
> ted
>
>