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Subject: [Leica] re: Alfie's week 5 PAW & bd's advice
From: Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:15:20 -0500

>And think MUCH MUCH harder about those
>images and why you want to preserve them.

once again, i think b.d. has posted some good advice for all of us. i'd like
to add a little advice too. that is to look at the way other photographers
you admire capture similar subjects. if you like photographs of the
wilderness, or piles of brush, look at the way other people photographed
them. one really great reference is ansel adams book "examples: the making
of 40 photographs"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/082121750X/qid=1013101553/sr=1-7/ref=
sr_1_7/102-6782978-8276907, even if ansel's not your bag, it's great to read
how he made each of these images and how he thought about them before he
did. also, rest assured that leica glass isn't going to make or break your
photograph, it's not magic. but think about what your camera _can_ do that
will make or break the photo -- DOF, framing, panning, all those photo 101
things, before you take the shot -- think, "how can i enhance this image?"

photo.net's "image of the week"
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=353429 isn't a pile of bramble,
but it's basically just three sticks. i'm not married to it, but i admire
the composition and the photographer's ability to get out of bed knowing
when he needed to take the photo to make it work.

you can all read about my own failed attempts to photograph bramble and
nature here:

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2001/18/index.html

now back to your regularly scheduled lens cap debate.

kc
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