[Leica] 13 sample portraits using my Elmar 90 f/4 LTM on a IIIf

[Jeffery Smith]

I had no trouble until after 9/11. Then people started questioning me even if I wasn't photographing them. Photographing children is least problematic when I am in a very populated setting but not a playground. Everyone now and then, there are excited children in Jackson Square with parents nearby, and they haven't spoken up, especially if I get down to the child's level by sitting on my butt or crouching on a knee. 

> On Jul 18, 2021, at 4:53 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> At least in the U.S. with the proper attitude(street photographer boldness,
> acting like you definitely belong in the setting) I have no difficulty
> photographing children in many different settings.  In the past two years I
> have only been asked to quit once; it was at a school during classes and
> the teachers on duty on the playground told me it was against policy.  This
> made sense with a relatively high quantity of child abductions by a
> relation.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 5:50 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
> wrote:
> 
>> I poked around and found 13 pictures that I am certain were taken with
>> my Elmar 90 f/4.
>> I almost always shot it wide open, but I never wrote that kind of
>> information down so I can't be sure.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/elmar90f4/
>> 
>> Most of these pictures are from a trip I took to Paris in the summer of
>> 1972. This is because on that trip, I had only the Elmar 90 and a 35
>> with me, and obviously none of these was taken with a 35. So I didn't
>> have to stop and ponder what lens I had used.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/elmar90f4/
>> 
>> All Tri-X at ASA400 (the ISO wasn't created for at least another 10
>> years after these pictures were taken). Developed in HC-110 and scanned
>> on a Nikon LS-4000.
>> 
>> It is unusual for me to post pictures of anything but my grandchildren,
>> but I have done other stuff, too....
>> 
>> I tracked down the parents of the two boys shown in picture #7 and sent
>> them each an 8x10 print. Back then it was common to use US paper sizes
>> for European frames, but a decade later it was all A4.
>> 
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