Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > >Hi Jonathan, >Well done mon ami, a fine set of story telling photographs. Having shot this >kind of birthing situation a few times it's not the easiest to do depending >on the medical folks allowing one the space to make the exposures and get >the right angles. > > Well even though I can nudge my way in to get the good angles etc, I can't slow 'em down when they are working... man is that hard ... the real tricky thing is predicting when everything is going to stop for a moment so you can get a reasonably sharp image ... I can't remember but those were probably shot with my Summicron 50 wide open at 1/15 sec., I think that's what the "decisive moment" really is -- that moment when the movement stops long enough to snap a photo :-) >Obviously you got along with them well and produced an amazing story telling >set of pictures. I'm sure when this child reaches an understanding age of >birthing he or she will be quite surprised at the beginning battle into the >cold cruel world! ;-) > > My 5 year old daughter was watching while I was working on these in Photoshop ... afterwards she sheepishly said "Daddy, is it alright if I don't have children." ... I am thinking that *yes* perhaps these are an excellent means of birth control :-)) >I photographed two of my grandchildren for the first medical book, "This is >Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler, also used in "Doctors' Work". So >today they're teen agers and they get a great kick out of showing new >friends... "hey this is me when I was born!" :-) > > That work is a real inspiration ... now I've taken many many thousands of photos intraop (with a Leica R4 attached to our Wild/Leica microscope) but mostly we are looking to document anatomy, and when I shoot my own operations, I stop everything and the result is a static image lacking the motion that is reality and apparent in your book... your work is an inspiration to look for the art that is present all around us. Jonathan