Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On May 16, 2004, at 10:24 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > I, too, really like the gears shot. Street sweeper is close, but > doesn't > quite make it. It might definitely benefit from being in b&w, and > having > the contrast bumped. But it would also benefit from showing all of the > street sweeper - at this point it has too much of a 'grabbed,' rather > than framed look to it. it's definitely a grabbed shot. i was standing in the vestibule of an abandoned store downtown, photographing derelict mannequins through the glass, when i saw him out of the corner of my eye. i got a shot off as quickly as i could focus. thanks for the complement and comments. i'm really enjoying the xpan. the movies are one of the things that got me into photography in the first place--"lawrence of arabia," specifically--and i am really enjoying "seeing" and shooting in something like panavision. -- brad daly brad@bradbrad.com http://www.bradbrad.com What Would Bill Hicks Say? I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. --Garry Winogrand