Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well... my opinion is that these photographs are every bit as good as 95% of the PAW prints that are deluged on us weekly. Every time I look at the PAW's, the "my web site is finally up", the "please look & comment", etc... I have to bite my tongue. I'll look at these Nepali photos any day rather than most of the aforementioned stuff. Folks seem to forget that by the time slides are scanned, or printed and scanned, lots of color & density can be effected. You have to look through this. If you don't like these photographs, then you probably don't like Tina's either. But because Tina is on the list and Ron Geur isn't, you only denigrate Ron. I think Tina's photographs are exemplary. Better than Ron's, but Ron's are good too. Jim At 07:04 PM 12/5/2001 -0500, Steven Alexander wrote: >I'm on B.D.'s side in this one, not that I'm not on his side much of the >time. These pictures are not up to the happy snap standard. If the guy >asked me over to watch his slides I hope he has a good supply of good beer. >If a Leica was used it was wasted, actually even the Epic might be over >kill. I do not find them sympathetic but exploitative of the subjects. > >However, ice cream makers have been making chocolate and vanilla for years. > > >Happy snaps, >Steven Alexander > >on 12/5/01 4:42 PM, Paul Chefurka at paul@chefurka.com wrote: > > > http://www.pbase.com/loonbay7/nepali_portraits&page=all > > > > I don't know who this gentleman is. I have no idea if these pictures were > > taken with a Leica, but if they weren't they could have been. IMO they > > exemplify the kind of pics Leicas are best at, and the kind of pictures > > many Leica photographers aspire to - direct, friendly, engaged, > > sympathetic. Aside from his penchant for taking head and shoulders > > portraits with too short a lens... > > > > Paul > > http://www.chefurka.com > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html