Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DL, Thanks for taking the effort. May I suggest taking your camera with you everywhere, record what happens around you, take walks to parts of your world that you do not normally walk through, and generally push the shutter button often. Many of us have very busy lives, for example, I frequently shoot less than a roll a week. Good luck and keep posting. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of D L Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:54 AM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] A Plethora of PAWs I'm late to the game and playing catch up but here are my first set of PAWs with some excuses/explanations. If you want to avoid the excuses/explanations, feel free to jump straight to http://photo.crazyjapan.com. If you like looking at train wrecks, and as photographers you probably do, please read on. All photos were taken with a Summarit 50/1.5 on a Yasuhara T-981 body. I've been shooting Fortepan 400 for no particular reason, but may switch to Scala in the near future. Comments and critiques are welcome at photo@crazyjapan.com PAW 1: Keeping to the spirit of the Colloquial Glossary of the LUG FAQ, which states that PAW has "deteriorated into a dreary parade of grainy, B&W, poorly framed & composed, cat/ butt/ brat & empty-doorway snaps" I offer a grainy, B&W, poorly framed & composed brat snap of my daughter flipping a plastic steak in a plastic frying pan: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw1.html PAW 2: A dreary snap of the start of a long snow storm in a town on the Japan Sea coast of Japan. With that weather, and bad knees that keep me from skiing, there wasnt' much to do but take pictures out the window: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw2.html PAW 3: I've always been fascinated by the extremes taken to protect, from winter cold, the palm trees in front of the school where I work. They look like something out of Alien: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw3.html PAW 4: Obligatory shot of the train station near my school: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw4.html PAW 5: I got nothin'. PAW 6: An idyllic bamboo grove complete with a trash incinerator: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw6.html PAW6b (detail): I thought PAW 6 would look good if I zoomed in a bit and made it horizontal. Now I'm not so sure: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw6b.html PAW 7: This one might actually qualify as cheating as the look is a by-product of taking an underexposed snap and subjecting it to some tweaks in Photoshop. Still, the fact that it's the best gives you an idea of how bad a week this was: http://www.crazyjapan.com/paw7.html _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information