[Leica] Re: London challenge shoot

[kargue at sympatico.ca (Kevin Argue)]

Steve- Since you have a wide range of shooters that have different
photographic abilities your future challenge should be best single photo in
a 2 hour period. Forget the rule of 36 exposure film as you need more others
need 12's or 24's.
As a frequent traveler to London there are easy photo op's for those looking
for subjects. Examples such as Sunday at Speakers Corner as shown by Brian
Reid. You could also go to the Observatory at Greenwich and photograph the
reaction of kids and adults to the prime meridian. The line causes people to
straddle it, stand on it , walk it or have family members on either side of
it. Those are a few things that make an interesting selection of photos at
that location. 
While waiting to check into my hotel in Russell Square, I walked up to
Tavistock Square with a coffee, newspaper and M6 and sat down for about an
hour. In that time the number of visitors to Ghandi's monument each reacting
in their own way to him made for a fun group of B&W images. All this while I
sat on a bench relaxing with my coffee and paper.


Cheers,
Kevin Argue

> From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:10:24 -0000
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: London challenge shoot
> 
> The original idea was that everyone would post what they considered to
> be their best shot, no matter how good, bad or indifferent it was. If
> you didn't have a good shot, tough, something was to be submitted.
> 
> Personally I found it a very difficult exercise. Being limited to a
> single roll of film meant that I was more restrained when I came across
> particular scenes. Whereas normally I might take half a roll of film
> looking for one that was on the money, I found myself holding back and
> taking two or three frames because I didn't know if something better was
> going to come along. The lesson I learned was that in future under
> similar circumstances I should go with my instincts and shoot away. If
> that meant that I got back to the pub an hour before everyone else so be
> it :-)
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of R. Clayton McKee
> Sent: 30 December 2004 04:59
> To: leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: London challenge shoot
> 
> My thought about the London shoot is that it looks to me as though
> the photographers felt so compelled to enter SOMETHING that they sent
> up "almost" shots rather than pass it by...
> 
> The alternative is that maybe three of them have any kind of eye at
> all and those three were having off days.
> 
> 
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