Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Barney Quinn said: > Ted, > > Thank you very much for taking the time to look at my pictures and to > critique them in detail. You are right about the angle. It was too > high. It's inattention and a bad habit I got into from years of looking > down into a rollei, and it is computnded by the fact that my bad hip > prefers to work standing up. As i told Phong, next time I am going to > sit in a chair, too. That should help with that.<<< Hi Barney, Using a chair? I thought you might like to know, yer not alone. ;-) As soon as I find the angle I want to shoot from and if the subject is in a static position I pull up a chair, park my but and start shooting . :-) Quite often it saves the back for those long shooting days we run into. > If I understand what you are saying I really want a line drawn through > the subject's shoulder's to make something like a 45 degree angle with > the camera as opposed to a head on 90 degree angle. I will work on that.<<< Yes that's correct! And that same light technique works with almost any subject you shoot. Look for the shadow side and away you go. Basically you can never go wrong using light in this fashion, all it takes in the begining is to constantly look for the "shadow side" and shoot from there. After awhile it becomes automatic in how you position yourself for the picture. > I am also finding that f2/8 with my digital camera doesn't give me the same shallow depth of > field it does with 35mm.<<< This is something we are all learning! > Again, Ted, thank you for taking the time to look. Comming from you I > consider that a fine compliment.<<< Thankyou kind sir. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html