Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 05:37:49 -0500, "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net> wrote: >Having photographed numerous demonstrations I have used a kit similiar to >yours, Two Ms and a F3HP. What I learned is that to get good demonstration >photos you need to be close-in with the demonstrators. So my recommendation >would be to dump the F3 and the Leica 90mm. > >Go wide with 35, 28 and a 21 if you have one. Take a 50 as a telephoto. > >I would also like to suggest that by getting close in you can get some >really meaty stuff of the demonstrators and police. Try and get away from >the dreaded pictures of demonstrators carrying signs--been done to death. > Good advice - the people are the real story here. Everyone knows the issues. I've been agonizing over lens/body choices all week. I've got a "dry run" tomorrow, and I may do it with just M's and see how it goes. I know about getting in close, but I do want a longer lens to pull faces out of a crowd, or just to stay out of tear-gas range :-) The one thing makes for success in a shoot like this (for an amateur, anyway) is to take a single theme and work it in all the different situations you go through. I'll certainly be doing the human side rather than the political side, but expect I'll have to wait for the real hook to present itself during the event the trick is to keep thinking about what you're seeing, to pull the single unifying idea out of it, and shoot to illustrate it. We'll see how it goes. I'll post results when I have them. Thanks for your thoughts, Steve. Paul http://www.chefurka.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html