Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fabulous portraits Emmanuel, especially with a new to you camera and difficult lighting. Especially liked the shot of Hamden and the little guy kissing him. BarryH At 10:00 AM 22/06/2012, you wrote: >Here is a selection of highly personal portraits of friends I took in the >Sinai desert (Egypt) about a month ago. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/emanuellowi/Dl2009/ > >Here's the story behind them. > >On my first picture-taking day in the desert, my Leica MP failed me -- >complete malfunction. The camera had just come back from service and -- >apparently -- the factory-authorized repairman had done something wrong. For >the first time in my career, I'd brought just one camera, with no back-up. I >wanted to travel light. So I faced two months of travel with no camera. I >resigned myself to recording images with my eyes only. > >Then, a few days before my travels ended, I met a 21-year-old college >student from Iowa, USA, who was travelling with two 35mm film cameras. He >agreed to loan me one -- a Canon T70 with 50/1.8 lens -- for a few days. > >I shot five rolls of film, four were C41 colour negative, one a roll of E6 >slide film, during two days. These are my quick selects from the five rolls, >scanned commercially at 15 cents a scan. > >Thank you, Jared. > >Emanuel > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information