Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: London challenge shoot
From: rich815 at gmail.com (Richard Sintchak)
Date: Wed Dec 29 10:35:07 2004
References: <1104262550.41d1b596ab710@webmail.mit.edu> <88560897-590A-11D9-9E9C-003065B7587A@interlink.es> <00b401c4ed1e$6ad43370$87d86c18@ted> <C0658EC1-591B-11D9-9E9C-003065B7587A@interlink.es> <011101c4ed3d$cf387c30$87d86c18@ted> <5gd5t0tvcu14ku98lfrq7o0212smg0mlrq@4ax.com>

If you think about it 120 minutes and 36 exposures is not all that
limiting.  That's enough film for one shot every 3 minutes or so. 
Plenty of time and film!  At least I imagine that's what would go
through someone's mind, so they shoot away with a cavalier attitude
(after all I'm only going to show people the "good ones").

I think Eric is on to something.  What might be interesting is to do
the same thing but limit everyone to just ONE shot in that 2 hours. 
I've heard of these ONE shot a day stories and how the ratio of good
to bad is quite high.  Imagine how you would really search and really
think about what you shot if it could only be one.  You'd stop and
consider what you are looking at through your viewfinder much more and
would be much, much harder on yoruself about what would be worth
clicking the shutter.  You'd not casually shoot many you should not
have shot in the first place anyway and if you saw in the viewfinder a
good one would grab it.

I might try this.

Richard


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:54:33 -0600, Eric <ericm@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ted:
> 
> >There isn't one single photographer in this world who shoots 36 perfect
> >pictures on a 36 exposure roll.
> 
> Jim Brandenburg comes close.  They may not be perfect, but good enough to
> make books.  If you haven't had a chance, check out his books following 
> each
> day of summer and winter.  Chased By the Light is the winter book, if I
> recall correctly.  One and only one picture a day for 90 days.  90
> exposures.  They all made it into the book.
> 
> Of course, he wandered for hours each day to find that one exposure.  If
> only we could each have that luxury.  :)
> 
> --
> Eric
> http://canid.com/
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In reply to: Message from bdcolen at MIT.EDU (B D Colen) ([Leica] London challenge shoot)
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