Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted - It is said that Margaret Bourke-White's pics where so good because she shot so much that no one ever saw (very large waste-paper basket) & only showed the best. If you only show the best, people will think that you are the best. There is a famous French painter Manet???) who is only known for having painted 6 or 8 in his whole life. Who knows how many he actually did paint. Picasso could (and did) put his signature on any doodle on a scrap of paper & it would sell. My wife & I first went to Europe in 1958; me with my Leica & she with a Tower (Leica Copy) and a book called "Europe on Five Dollars a Day" and we budgeted our film so that we never shot the same picture twice. No bracketing - just shoot & move on to the next scene. Marvin ================================================= In a message dated 97-11-05 03:04:34 EST, you write: I do the "one roll, one Leica" thing every once in awhile simply as a "refresher shoot". Works wonders for "learning to see" when you have to work at it with 36 frames. Besides it makes you "look harder" about what works and what doesn't. In the end it makes you a better photographer when the time comes that your 5 or 6 Leicas are smoking with film flying in all directions! :) ted >>