Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]KISS - it never fails... IF YOU HAVE THE EYES. Congrats on the exhibition! On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:42 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Crew, > I have received a few posts asking how did I set up this shot for the > poster? > > It's not set-up! It caught my eye on the first day I was shooting medical > students in "The GROSS lab." It's a big lab with a bunch of cadavers in > body bags and the students & instructors play with these .... "dead folks." > > The skeleton hanging there and my first re-action was to "hang a Leica M" > around it's neck and shoot it just for the hell of it as a "funny" picture. > However some university people don't have any sense of humour! And I'd > probably have been thrown out. :-( > > As I walked about shooting various things the skeleton kept catching my > eye and I figured sooner or later I'll see something ? > > I saw an angle and I thought the skeleton was smiling! And in the > background students were out of focus. My thought? "COOL! CLICK!" :-) It > was just one of several hundred frames of the day. When the art gallery > people wanted a shot for a poster to promote the exhibition, I knew just > what to use. :-) > > Nobody complained, everybody thinks it's a neat photo and it will attract > a great number of viewers to the gallery. > > It's like.... "What you see, is what you get!" :-) > > Thank you for all the kind comments. > > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>