Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Just in case you're >curious, I did get the shot, and the results are fantastic. I have >decided to practice the method of pre-focusing to infinity, then turning >down to the subject distance. This makes the most sense to me, as most >of my subjects are 5-15 feet away, and my summicron lacks a focusing >lever. Well - after all that you'll have to post the image to the web somewhere. Be most interested. Gareth > >Thanks again, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your responses. > >Sincerely, >Paul Klingaman > >>Eric: >> >>I was the originator of this eye contact thread. To clarify it, it was >in >>comment to Nathan's Belgium market scenes where some of the pictures >just >>showed the backs of peoples heads, not people looking off somewhere. >The >>exception on this page are the one of the little girl ,Tongeren 10, and >the >>two boys checking out a find, Waterloo 88C. It may have been better to >say >>that the viewer has to connect with the expression of the face in a >>photograph. It matters little whether or not there is eye contact as >long >>as there is some connection to the viewer. >> >>http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/belgian.htm >> >>My Noctilux page has some of both eye contact and the subject looking >>elsewhere. For example, Jennifer, Boyd, Bruce and Kim are not looking >>directly into the camera and the pictures work. The Baby picture has >the >>the little girl staring right at me. This picture works because of >this. >>Look at the basket ball picture at the bottom of the page. It is >player >>42's expression that makes it. All of these pictures on this page are >not >>staged. I just press the shutter relase when I like the composition. >None >>of them are posed. >> >>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/Noctilux.htm >> >>As Eric knows, when you have a camera to your face people around just >get >>used to it and start to relax. The lack of flash also helps, as they >are >>not self concience about you taking pictures since there is no flash to >>announce that you just took a picture. This is where Leica excells. >You >>can use fast lenses and get decent images where others need flash or >faster >>more grainey film. My Basketball shot on the Noctilux page was taken >with >>E200 pushed to EI 320, while most other photographers were using EI >>800-1600 print film. On my R6 I was using F2 lenses which were still a >>stop or more faster than the other photographers lenses. This still >>allowed me to use the EI 320 slide film. >> >>Regards, >> >>Robert > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >