Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] On a roll
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:02:25 -0700
References: <3CC78F94.B2BDD95A@earthlink.net> <003001c1ec71$a4ec6560$143b3318@ply.adelphia.net> <3CC83523.B7C85B63@earthlink.net> <001c01c1ec98$038ad9a0$143b3318@ply.adelphia.net>

Bill;
I picked up a copy of the paper this afternoon. It seems that the
printer's over inking made it fall more along Klein's look after all.
Oh, well!
Slobodan Dimitrov

Bill Harting wrote:
> 
> First off, I like your photo of the kids a lot. The picture has the
> immediacy and energy of the subject.
> But I guess I had assumed that Klein's look -- grain, in-your-face subjects
> and deep shadow and highlight -- was as much a consequence of his materials
> and lighting choices as a conscious style that he worked at. I find myself
> at first imitating those whose work I admire, then reacting against it as I
> zigzag toward doing something that could be described as my own. But my own
> current (and long time) choices, a 50mm Summicron and TriX and subjects
> lurking in lighting that is f2 at an 8th, end up yielding results similar to
> Klein
> 
> Could be worse, I guess. At least as long as I keep away from eroded
> East-coast beach rocks.
>
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