Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html