RE: [Leica] Haven't posted an image in ages...

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Now THIS is a seriously helpful post! How rare and refreshing - Thanks!

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of S Dimitrov
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:32 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Haven't posted an image in ages...


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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