Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Hans, it is a pleasure to correspondent to you. I came to LUG through your webpage. Well, back to business. As you can imagine, as a photojournalist you are oftern closer to your objekt then you might have thougt. And in former times Robert Capa already said: If the picture isnīt good, you wasnīt close enough. I like to work with wide angle lenses and you can do a lot with your 35 mm when you have the right position. Just a few weeks ago, a newspaper too a photograph from me, where I took some flowers in front of a known building of that area. Iīve made the photo with the 35mm, the flowers were just 20 cm in front of the lens, aperture 16 and they took about 70% of the image. I laid the camera on the gras, so the perspective was as the flowers were huge like trees. I couldnīt get the image like this, if the focusing just goes to one meter. Also by reportage, I like to get as close as I can. 80 % of my pictures were made with the 21mm and 35mm. A friend and very good colleague from Bilderberg, Joel Assiag, does war reportage with the 35mm and 24mm. The pictures do not need any capure, are full format covered with the happening. THAT is close to the subject. Hope to give you the answer. By the way, my webside isnīt ready yet, but you can see some pictures from me at http://www.photojournalist.de Most of the showed picutes and all of the New York picures are made with the 35mm and are full format prints with no capture. Cheers, Deniz Saylan