Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Haven't posted an image in ages...
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:32:28 -0800
References: <000901c288f4$f708ebf0$a7fefea9@ccasony01>

You might want to consider replacing the GX hood with an earlier reflex
hood. That way you can use it to also focus with and not just to
compose. But beware of parallax close in. 
If you haven't gotten a set of Rolleinars by now, get them. They are
indispensable with the TLR.
When focusing with the camera on a flat, or irregular surface, with the
camera cupped in both hands, place your middle fingers underneath the
front of the camera's base with your thumbs in back and your index
fingers on the front standard. That way you can control the camera's
pitch while using your hands to stabilize the tendency to jerk when
squeezing the shutter button.
With square shooting, there is more of a tendency to consider
compositional elements in terms of up and down, unlike the 35mm which
tends to be side to side. With this particular portrait, I would bet
that including more sky would of been more effective. Try Polaroid tests
with your other Rollei to check out the differences, as minute as they
might be.
Slobodan Dimitrov


bdcolen wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Nathan. As Slobodan pointed out, it might have been better had I
> included more reflection and less sky...I was shooting with Nick resting
> on one side of the roof, and the camera sitting on the other, so what
> you see is what I got...but I could have pulled back off the roof...;-)
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan
> Wajsman
> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 1:02 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Haven't posted an image in ages...
> 
> Nice portrait, BD, but I am not sure if I like the big out-of-focus blob
> 
> in the lower foreground. It keeps drawing my eye away from his face,
> although I do realize that his reflection in the shiny surface is part
> of the composition.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> bdcolen wrote:
> > Soooo... http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-35152.html
> >
> > Trash, praise, ignore - whatevah. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> 
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> 
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