Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] PAW
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:50:48 -0800

On 2/8/03 bdcolen  wrote:

>Thanks for the thoughtful critique, Adam...My only response re the snow
>on the window comment is that when you see the print, you see incredible
>detail in the snow flakes, which I think works. My other thought is that
>the blurred snow would be a bit of a visual cliché, no? 
>
>B. D.

It might be, and you'll have to forgive me because I haven't lived anywhere that
it snows for, well decades and decades.

It would be MORE interesting to freeze the near-field snow with maybe a flash
shooting from the side maybe a couple of feet away - not illuminating the
landscape but just the falling snow - that way you could freeze those flakes
while letting the ones in the distance be blurred. It might be interesting to
play with this.

I got this idea from a photo my son took in DC during the same storm that did
it's number on you.

Probably these things are clich
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