Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/27

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Subject: [Leica] Pictures
From: lambroving at worldnet.att.net (William G. Lamb, III)
Date: Sun Feb 27 14:36:31 2005

Michiel,

Really enjoyed the catch of your two daughters and the angle you chose to 
shoot it. Love the pose and expressions.
<http://michielfokkema.no-ip.info/winogrand/pages/001-054-1-04.htm>

Best,

William

At 10:03 PM 02/27/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm not able to do the paw anymore but will now and then post some 
>pictures of places and events where I've been.
>I'm attending a course in portrait photography, if anything worthwhile 
>comes out of that I will also post it.
>I had some trouble with Neopan 1600 and hard contrast. It turns out that 
>T-max developer is too hard for this film. I'm now using am74 from 
>Amaloco. This is already much better but I think it can be improved even 
>more. I will try some more developers and see what will happen
>
>Like Nathan i visited the Winogrand exhibition in Amsterdam. I must say 
>that I was really impressed by his pictures. There were also a few form 
>Lee Friedlander and these are also superb. During the visit i shot some 
>pictures on Neopan 1600 and on Agfa 400. Unfortunate I exposed the Agfa at 
>1600. This is not recommended but most of the pictures are oke with longer 
>developing and some photoshopping. All pictures are made with a M6 with 
>the 50/1.4 or the 28/2.8.
>The first picture is actually the first picture of the roll, you know, 
>when you fire twice to get the unexposed part of the film. I always fire 
>one too much and now i think I got a nice picture with it.
>This time I couldn't resist to make a self portrait together with a 
>picture of the 'Pink man'.
>There is also a picture of my two daughters which of course are the most 
>beautiful and sweet girls on earth. But I think the picture is nice by 
>itself even if you are not the father of them. If you disagree I really 
>like to hear it. Any other comment is also welcome and appreciated.
>
>http://michielfokkema.no-ip.info/winogrand/index.htm
>
>Best regards,
>
>Michiel Fokkema



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