Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is probably one of the first lessons you should learn and also the hardest. I have also learned that the two sexes also have a different eye. I attended another local workshop and one sex brought mostly flower, dime a dozen photos, while the other brought picture post card photos. The ones that brought black and white photos seemed to have more of an appreciation of what makes a good photograph. B. D. Colen wrote: >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 > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html