Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If at first you don't succeed, click, click again. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW - try again > Dave, > > I was not sure if your comments were tongue-in-cheek or not, probably they > were, but I will venture a serious reply anyway. Yes, it is true that the > LUG tends to respond more to pictures of people, as this is the genre that > made Leica famous. But Leica lenses are just as good for other purposes, and > you should not tailor your PAW to what you think the audience likes. You > should choose the pictures you think represent your work, your life, > whatever, during the week in question and post them, period. This does not > mean that you should not respond to constructive criticism and take it on > board, this is after all one of the main purposes of posting one's work on > the Internet, but you should not impose self-censorship on yourself to > please the LUG. > > I tend to post people pictures on my PAW, but if, like Week 29, my > photography was dominated by landscape, then I post landscape shots. In the > final analysis my PAW has to satisfy ME before anyone else. > > Nathan > > BTW, I still like your picture of the two girls. > > Dave Hillman wrote: > > > No one except me liked my first effort a PAW. So, from the same roll I > > picked another and relegated the first try to alternate. I think you > > critics like pictures of people, so this is my first try at what might > > be called 'street photography'. This is a new genre to me, so I may > > have it all wrong. Do I need to convert it to b&w, add some grain as if > > it was 3200 speed and twist it 20 degrees as though I wasn't looking > > through the view finder? Please advise. I tried to pick the decisive > > moment and this was one of the few I tried in which my reaction time was > > short enough that no one stepped in front of the camera. Instead the > > violent poke at the release succeeded in blurring the image and I missed > > the look on the girl's face when she was handed a crab. > > > > I think I should go back to old trolley cars. > > > > http://www.hillmanimages.com/bw/L6-5b.html > > > > --- > > Dave Hillman > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > > General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ > Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ > Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/ > >