Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I got through about four pages and saw nothing remarkable. Is taking 300 shots without looking through the viewfinder akin to having 100 monkeys bang on typewriters hoping for a novel. It seems so random and so contrary to photography as providing for and revealing a unique and personal "eye". At 09:23 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Leica dudes > >Last Friday I hipshot nine rolls of Neopan 1600 (WHAT a film) on Oxford >Street without looking through the viewfinder once. Every frame of it is >now up at > > http://www.johnbrownlow.com/ProjectHipshot > >Over on streetphoto we are having a 'public edit', which means anyone who >wants to can select a maximum of ten frames from the >300 on show. In >about a week's time I will ask people to email me their selections and I >will then set up a website with the results. > >The idea is to see how different pairs of eyes will edit the same raw >material. It is kind of a more extreme version of my postings of sloppy >edits from the original Human Traffic shoot, which some of you may >remember. I can still remember my astonishment that other people liked >different pictures to the ones I did. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html