Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hipshot project
From: Johnny Deadman <lists@johnbrownlow.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:43:54 -0500

a little more on this. Gilbert really makes a good point here.  
Hipshooting opens up the possibility of shooting something you might  
never have consciously envisaged. The name is really something of a  
misnomer since few of the pictures are taken from the hip.

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 07:57  PM, J. Gilbert Plantinga wrote:

> Well said. Hipshooting is certainly not random, but can be most  
> serendipitous:
>
> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/portfolios/humantraffic/edits/hard/pages/ 
> 014.html
>
> Not a bad shot as I imagine (the fantasy is my right) it was  
> originally conceived, three figures, something going on. I wouldn't  
> pass it up, and if there wasn't time to bend down and look through the  
> finder (raising the camera would completely change the drawing), I'd  
> grab it. And then one looks at the negative the next day and sees that  
> light that only the camera had seen at first, and WOW!

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