Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: wedding candids
From: ken@iisaka.org
Date: 19 Oct 2000 17:26:14 -0700

On Thu, 19 October 2000, Simon Stevens wrote:
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> I like your candids very much, but the professional's images didn't
> download when I tried to compare them. About your picture of him working
> I see three cardinal sins:
> 
> 1. He's underdressed. Not wearing a suit in my opinion is just
> unprofessional.
> 2. He's using a flash on a side grip. Yuck! Stroboframes are made for a
> reason. If you have to do flash, do it right.
> 3. He's shooting with a Nikon. :)

The "pro" was a friend's friend kinda deal who probably only dabbles at photography for a few bucks.

His pics are at:

http://www.ericsworld.com/Wedding/

Needless to say, the quality of light is admittedly somewhat less than...

BTW, I am the blue shirted guy in the "Guests" section of the on-line album.  My Leica can be seen in some of them.

Still, the bride and groom seem happy with them.  Absolutely nothing wrong with that, however, IMHO.