Re: [Leica] This week's PAW

["Gwen & Jim Long" <jimlong@inwave.com>]

That's a great Nocti picture.  Shows its best quality.

Jim
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Mark E Davison <dmark8@qwest.net>
To: Leica User Group <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 5:40 PM
Subject: [Leica] This week's PAW


> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=301991&size=md
>
> This weeks submission is a Noctilux shot in color. I can't remember if the
> aperture was 1.4 or 1.0, but the DOF is pretty thin. I like the way the
> combination of Noctilux and Kodak Portra 400 can give you delicate color
on
> indoor shots--combined with that wonderful creamy blurred background. I
> suppose this is "good" bokeh.
>
> I realize the aesthetics of the shot fail the Kyle Cassidy test--this is
my
> son looking solemn as he graduates from the lowest rank of Cub Scouts to
the
> next. But I think my program is different than Kyles'. I am trying to
apply
> the techniques of art photography and photo journalism to the making of
> family photographs--something more than saccharine record shots of
everyone
> smiling, something less than photographs that will save the world.
>
> But here is a test for you. Your house is burning down. You can save
> yourself, your children and one valued possession. Do you save your
> treasured original print by a famous photographer, or do you take your
> family album?
>
> The family album, I think. It is unique, and it is yours. It is worth
> imbuing with art and love. Someone may actually want to look at it 50
years
> hence.
>
> Mark Davison
>
>
>