Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A modest PAW this week
From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein@2alpha.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:40:50 -0800

Mark, I really like this shot.  Perhaps I'm imagining things, but it seems 
to have that larger-than-35mm plasticity even on the monitor.  I also love 
how the symmetrical dark and light in the background is mirrored 
(refracted, actually!) in the variously-shaped drops.  Nice one!

- --Peter

At 02:20 PM 1/22/2002 -0800, "Mark Davison" <DAVISON_M@msn.com> wrote:

>http://not.contaxg.com/document.php?id=571
>
>A still-life study, raindrops on a window. I took a number of pictures of
>the rain on my window, trying to convey the cool elegance of the drops.
>Tried various cameras, lenses, points of view, but this moderate closeup
>taken with my Bronica medium format camera seemed to give the best balance
>between abstract geometry and mood.  The Leica M shots were too far away
>(drops too small). Also, the Bronica wide open gives a nice creamy OOF
>treatment of the background behind the window (which is itself a window.)
>
>Has anyone else tried the exercise of shooting rain? Its an elusive
>substance!
>
>A few words on the intent of this photograph--it is intended as art, not
>photojournalism, meaning that it might grace a wall, be placed on a card
>(perhaps Welcome to Seattle), or used as an illustration to a poem. It is
>much more geometric than narrative.

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