Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Satterfield wrote: He also said you can buy local picture post cards and save your film unless you can get a photograph that is not a dime a dozen. I am still transiting. and my ideas have changed too. - ---- Funny...just an hour ago I sent the following message to one of my MIT students who is cutting the second class - actually a field trip to go to a presentation by Susan Meiselas - for a week in El Salvador... "when you go to El Salvador, or anywhere else "foreign" for that matter, don't waste your time taking photos that wouldn't be worth taking next door to where you live. That is, if you want post cards, buy postcards - the people who shoot them are probably much better at color control, etc., than you or I. In other words, save your film for that which tells us something about the human condition - and when you are about to shoot, ask yourself why you are shooting, and whether you are invading someone's space for no good reason." B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html