Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: PAW 52 MEB / Kid's Level Shooting
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:16:51 -0600

Michael,

What was the film/developer for Week 41a?

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of MEBerube
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:07 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Re: PAW 52 MEB / Kid's Level Shooting
>
>
> You all are correct of course...Other than the adorable
> expression, I blew
> this shot. (The neg is a bit over-exposed also to be perfectly honest.)
> Shooting from "the 3 yo's level" would have made the photograph
> MUCH better
> as it did with with these other PAWs that I shot of her this year:
>
> http://www.goodphotos.com/OneAWk/01wk1a.jpg
> http://www.goodphotos.com/OneAWk/01wk41a.jpg
> http://www.goodphotos.com/OneAWk/01wk42a.jpg
>
> Needless to say, however the non-photographer grandparents LOVED
> wk 52 and
> of course are already bugging me for prints. (They are worse than real
> clients!) :)
>
> Thanks for all the feedback this year. Honest and well meant
> critique from
> fine photographers such as found here on the LUG are invaluable
> and greatly
> treasured.
>
> I'm still thinking on how I'll do the PAW in 2002. I think I'll be doing
> more specifically thematic shooting than this last year, but I'm still
> working it out.
>
> Carpe Luminem,
> Michael E. Berube
>
> At 07:27 AM 12/31/01 -0800, Nathan wrote:
> >The photo is cute, but it suffers from the usual defect of children's
> >photographs (I am guilty of this too on occasion), namely that you are
> >standing up and looking down on Bethy. You need to get down in the snow
> >yourself and be at her level.
>
> Ted agreed and expanded the sentiment with:
> >Hi Nathan,
> >I can't agree with you more.
> >
> >The biggest failure of most children pictures that come from LUG members
> >is.......... the photographer forgets to bend their knees and
> they don't get
> >down to the child's level.  Consequently they blow the picture 99% of the
> >time when they could've had a fine child moment capturing a
> simple activity.
> >
> >So for 2002, how about all you folks happily shooting kids
> please get down
> >to their level! :-)
> >
> >Hey, you might be very surprised at how much your pictures improve. :-)
> >Hell most of you are much younger than me and I've got 10
> grandchildren to
> >keep track of, so I have to do a fair amount of knee bending,
> that I can do,
> >no problem.
> >
> >However, it's getting back up is the problem.  That and a
> grandmother who's
> >my worst nightmare if I don't get good pictures. ;-) So lets be
> careful out
> >there and bend those knees for great kid pictures.
>
> Doug humorously added a reminder from PLUG and gave us an example of kid
> height shooting with:
>
> >The PLUG's 10 Commandments of Leica Photography
> >1) Thy children are ugly. Do not make us look upon them.
> >Michael, rules like these beg disobedience! Good on ya.
> >
> >
> >The niece - Corri
> >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=455437&size=lg
>
>
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