RE: [Leica] What Makes a good Picture?

["Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

Hi Simon,

> I could not bring myself to take any pictures because I felt that it was an
> intrusion into a very private gathering. 

But you were dying to, right :-)   ?


> I guess that there is more to Photogaphy than I thought.

And there is more to life than photography.  How much more is up
for you to decide, which you did.   Or did you ?


- - Phong
who  went to a Thanksgiving dinner with friends and families
and took a gazillion photos, natural light, mostly f1.4 ISO 400.
Gazillion in this case is about 250.





> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Simon
> Greenwood
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:58 AM
> To: hexarRF@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] What Makes a good Picture?
> 
> 
> Until last night I thought it went something like this;
> 
> Opportunity + Skill + Luck + Leica M / Konica Hexar (agressively delete
> depending on which group you are reading this).
> 
> HOWEVER
> 
> Opportunity : I went to a Thanksgiving party last night (unusual in England)
> with some of the world's most prolific songwriters (not my usual night out).
> After dinner we all  migrated to a room with the grand piano lit by a
> multitude of candelabra. One by one, legends of the music industry got up to
> play their greatest hits.
> 
> Skill: Well I am getting better, but hey, it is far better to travel
> hopefully than it is to arrive.
> 
> Luck: n/a
> 
> Leica M / Hexar: Yep, I had both and I had a fast enough film TriX, which I
> could have rated comfortably at 1600
> 
> SO?........
> 
> I could not bring myself to take any pictures because I felt that it was an
> intrusion into a very private gathering.  I guess that there is more to
> Photogaphy than I thought.
> 
> 
> Happy Thanksgiving
> 
> Simon Greenwood
> Surrey England
> 
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