Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 41 and 42
From: Nathan Wajsman <belgiangator@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:14:36 +0100 (BST)

Hi Ted,

Many thanks for the comments and kind words. I do own
two flashes, a Metz for my R8 and the little SF20 for
my M6. But I rarely use them, I regard them as
emergency devices exactly for the reasons you mention.

As for the IR landscape, I agree with your comment. In
fact, I took 3-4 shots of the scene, and on a couple
of them the composition is exactly as you suggest. But
I chose this particular one because the sky is not
completely blown out and the flare is not too bad,
considering that I used a filter (Heliopan 695).

Nathan
 --- Ted Grant <tedgrant@home.com> wrote: > 
> Hi Nathan:
> The main picture is another excellent moment in
> making good use of what
> Leica camera's and lens do best.... '"if you can see
> it, you can shoot it!"
> By using the available existing light you retain
> naturalness of the moment
> and the look of the location.
> 
> Not to forget, you don't give yourself away with a
> "blinking flashing
> twinkie light every few minutes!" ;-)  And without
> this, the children go
> about doing their thing without becoming "camera
> conscious" and the parents
> attention taken away from the event looking around
> to see who's taking
> pictures.... which at any event is a big pain in the
> butt.Certainly when a
> Leica user doesn't have the guts to shoot wide open
> with a slow shutter
> speed.
> 
> The alternates:
> >>>>> For week 42 I have a couple of infrared
> pictures. The main picture is
> of
> > a vineyard near my house. The wine they make here
> around Lake Zurich is
> > actually not worth drinking (except in
> emergencies) but the vineyard
> > looks pretty:
> >
> > http://www.wajsman.com/42.jpg
> >
> > The alternate is another infrared picture, taken
> near Glarus, about 50km
> > south of Zurich:
> >
> > http://www.wajsman.com/42alt1.jpg<<<<
> 
> The infrared vineyard is very well executed with a
> different look and nicely
> composted  Very well done as this is the kind of
> scene and look which
> encourages others to give infrared a try.
> 
> The roadway and field...
> My nit picking comment! I think the composition
> could be improved if you'd
> turned slightly to the right (as we are looking at
> the scene) moving the
> road slightly to the left and taking it away from
> the "near centre line" of
> the frame.
> 
> Or cropping a very small area on the left will
> accomplish the same thing.
> But like I say, these are minor details of perceived
> improvement, of course
> subjective as I see it on the screen.
> 
> good ones Nathan.
> ted
> 
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> 
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