Re: [Leica] Not having contributed in a while

["Jeffery Smith" <jls@runbox.com>]

I hope it was the 85/1.4; I have an 85/1.4 Planar that I hope can emulate that shot when I use it as a people lens.

I like the genre that you're pursuing. Sort of reminds me of the B&W JFK images. Good work.

Jeff

> Thanks for the good questions, Jeff - First, the bad news....the portrait of
> Chloe was shot with either - I honestly can't remember - the Nikon 60 2.8 AF
> D macro, or the Nikon 85 1.4 AF D - my guess is the 85.
> 
> As to the question about how I work....other than a couple of occasions when
> I have asked two subjects to push their heads together, I don't ever give
> instructions to subjects when doing this kind of shooting. In fact, when
> some starts to step in front of me, realizes I'm shooting, and hesitates and
> apologizes, I ask them to ignore me and just do what they were doing. I do
> find that I - or at least my cameras - become transparent. When I spent the
> day with Chloe and her parents I certainly chatted with her parents, but
> that chatting helps make me part of the background. I find I can then chat,
> with the camera to my eye, and shoot, without having the subject react to
> the camera.
> 
> As to the stuff of Gary Hall, because there were some specific kinds of
> shots the client wanted, I had to ask him to go swimming - pretty ironic
> ;-) - and I also had to ask him to do some butterfly laps, as he normally
> doesn't swim the butterfly - ever. In fact, he joked about the fact that
> with all the zillions of times he's been photographed, I'm "the only
> photographer in the world" to have shots of him swimming the butterfly. (NO,
> I don't think that's a claim to fame - I just think it's funny.)
> 
> Like you, I've had people tell me to get lost, so I get lost - very briefly.
> Weddings are a different kind of animal from what I usually do. While they
> are certainly family events, they are MUCH higher in tension, and much more
> alcohol fueled, than most family gatherings I'd be photographing.;-)
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Smith
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] Not having contributed in a while
> 
> 
> B.D.,
> 
> Nice "day in the life" series. How difficult is it to make yourself
> transparent in these assignments? Do you slip around without talking much,
> or is there interaction with the subjects (as in "hold it! keep doing what
> you're doing" etc.)? When I was doing some candid stuff of grooms and their
> ushers, etc. getting ready for a wedding, I kept my mouth shut and just
> sort of puttered around with a 105/2.5 Nikkor. Even this, some of the guys
> would tell me to get lost (a tad hung over from the night before).
> 
> You seem to be using several different lenses. What did you use for the
> first portrait of the child whose eye is in razor sharp focus?
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> 
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