Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/10

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Portraits Facebook
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:26:20 -0700
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Sadly, objectifying women is a common theme in photo group. I started a
mock group called "Medium&Large Format Film Camera With No Dirty Old Men"
as a joke. Obviously, not all men are dirty old men, but seriously....

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:24 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I have left and come back several times.   I hate the gratuitous photos
> that objectify women and there are far too many of them.  Sometimes there
> is a portrait that is worth seeing and learning from, rare but
> interesting.  There are several other Leica FB pages that have a higher hit
> rate!
>
> Tina
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 10:39 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I unfollowed that list and I can't tell you how much better I feel.  The
> > criteria seems to be, get a shot in focus while wide open.   That usually
> > puts the subject dead center in the frame, because they shoot with
> > rangefinder cameras.  No re-frame, no crop.   'bout drove me crazy.
>  When
> > I said something about it, I was called rude and a troll.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sonny
> > http://sonc.com/look/
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> > 1714
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> >
> > USA
> >
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>
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In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Leica Portraits Facebook)
Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Leica Portraits Facebook)