Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Christmas Book
From: "lea" <lea@whinydogpress.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 19:23:37 -0600
References: <BA3238BB.2F41%stasys1@gte.net>

Classic Farber Nudes is also an excellent book if you like his work, which I
do.

Lea
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From: "Stasys Petravicius" <stasys1@gte.net>
To: <leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 7:04 PM
Subject: [Leica] Christmas Book


> Hi Lugnuts-
>
> The book that I purchased for the Holidays " Natural Beauty Farber Nudes "
> by Robert Farber is easy reading, very nice pictorially, and has a few
> comments about equipment, film and settings and lighting. He uses a
variety
> of 35 mm, medium format, digital and even Minox cameras. The images are
> interesting in that grain is a prominant feature, and the softness of the
> figures gives them a nice quiet quality. The book is balanced with other
> scenes of beauty- landscapes, a seascape, flora, etc.
>
> Looking the book over- it appears that I shouldn't be too hung up on Leica
> 35- there are a lot of ways to achieve excellent results among them
watching
> the light, sometimes filtration, and planning the size of the final print.
>
> An additional comment- I've paid my own way photographically until now-
and
> will continue in the future.
>
> Best, Stasys
>
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