Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:35 PM 10/17/97 +1000, you wrote: >Jim - Thanks for your comments. =A0By rules I was meaning things like >don't shoot slower than 1/30s with a 50mm lens, don't shoot into the >sun, don't take landscapes between 9am and 4pm, never photograph from >behind a mob of cattle etc. This... >I'd like to think of myself as a reasonably experienced photographer >but after another competition rejection letter today I have been >rendered temporarily inexperienced. =A0There's something going wrong here >but I don't know what it is . . . Leads to this. Shoot against the sun. It makes some of the best light there is. Shoot at noon, and use fill-flash. Climb a tree as the mob of cattle come close! Break the rules, and the rejection letters will become fewer and fewer. Speaking of mobs, if it's a herd of cattle, or a gaggle of geese, what do you call a group of photographers? A complaint. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.