Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> > > ... http://www.pbase.com/phong/courtship > > Firstly well done. Its a big step to move up to imaging strangers and > getting comfortable with it. Secondly, I like #7 best. It is tight > and tells the most intimate story. As for the rest, the more distant > images were so so, and I was especially disappointed that the angle > they were taken from was always the same. Alastair, Thanks for your comments. They mean a lot to me. I enjoy photographying people a lot; besides we are all strangers in the beginning, right ? The monotonous same angle came from the fact that I did not want to remind the couple of my presence, once they got back to each other; I sat at one place at a distance from them (~25 feet) and stayed there the whole time. #7 is actually a crop of the same angle and distance as the rest of the photos. They were all taken with a 70-200 zoom, sometimes with a 1.4 extender. I use a long lens for people photography sometimes. Thanks again for your feedback, - - Phong - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html