Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg- Wrote in part- "Thinking about all this makes me think of some of the beautiful hand held results of so many of our LUG photographers, the velvety black and whites from Tina Manley, the venerable Ted Grant, Filipo Caroti, and so many more, and it makes me wonder if some of the slow hand holding that many of the LUG talk about [sometimes endlessly] is directly akin to [oil] painting in a very real way. The deliberate ambiguity of the way those silver crystals get laid down in a shot of a parent holding a child by candle light creates a sensation much like a brush stroke." Greg- I read the first part of your post with a skeptical mind- I kept thinking that it sounded a lot like a politician 'fuzzy calculator' math- then I hit the above paragraph, and saw where you were going! Good thought! At least it gives me comfort to know that there may be a genetic component to taking a photograph- that you heart has to not only be in the right place, but it has to beat so that the lines of displacement cause pleasant renditions of images and bokeh! Wow- the 'zen' of it is almost too much.... seriously, though, it is a very creative idea! And I sort of agree with it! Dan( Honey! I am beginning to think like one of those LUGgers now.... go ahead and shoot me!)Post