Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: <Ruralmopics@aol.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 23:56 Subject: Re: [Leica] Street shooting > If some guy was hanging around me for an hour without > introducing himself I'd be tempted to call the cops! I was in a room with a constantly changing crowd of fifty people or so. Even so, had I been holding the Nikon, I'm sure more people would have noticed and wondered. > As for your "by the time I'm satisfied with the compostion" > comment. I guess I fall into the "pre-visualization" camp > of photography. I look at a scene or situation and envision > a 24mm picture or a 180mm picture and then get into position > to make it. That's what I did. But the composition I had visualized required a certain distribution of people in front of me, and that took a while to materialize, if it materialized at all. I obviously wasn't going to ask them to pose for me. I got a few shots that were vaguely like what I wanted, but nothing that matched exactly. -- Anthony