Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fun shot...the guy looks really interested ;-) Just like me when I am in a shopping mall with my wife. Nathan Michael Abbott wrote: > I seem to be numbering things a bit differently to the other PAWers... my > week 3 shot over here: > > http://www.mabot.com/paw02/wk3-0201-1025.html > > I spent friday afternoon and saturday morning in a few shopping malls, my > first real attempt at street photography. (I'm not brave enough to try real > streets here, but that's another discussion.) > > Mostly I was just trying to get over sticking a camera in people's faces. > Only one person objected (at a distance,) one asked what I was up to, one > asked to have her picture taken (and emailed to her.) Only one security > guard objected, when I was hanging around getting an address from the woman > who asked, but he wasn't seroius and he belonged to a shop not the centre in > any case. > > These were all with an SLR and 50/1.4 on cheap 400 colour print film, mostly > 1/60 at f/2.8. I soon gave up on adjusting for bright and dark regions, the > film seemed to handle it fine. Focusing fast enough is pretty hard, > especially close in. > > Comments would be appreciated. > > Michael > > --------------------------------- > Michael Abbott www.mabot.com > Johannesburg, South Africa > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html