[Leica] I'm getting married, she explained

[wharting at verizon.net (bill harting)]

Thank you, Ted. Don't tell my wife, but I am shopping for a summilux that 
will go a little deeper into the shadows (and focus a little closer than my 
present summicron). The darkness beckons.

bill h

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] I'm getting married she explained


> bill harting showed:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] I'm getting married she explained
>
>>> We went out to lunch. I'm getting married, she explained.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM1a
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM4a
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM5a
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM7a
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM8a
>>>
>>> and our gracious hostess:
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM9a
>
> Hi Bill,
> A good set of photographs indeed, certainly capturing an exciting moment 
> in this young lady's life.  And if they were all crispy Leica sharp you'd 
> have lost the exciting news this girl is explaining in her excitement and 
> hand movements.
>
> Every picture doesn't have to be ticky tacky crispy sharp to be good, some 
> can stand a slight slow shutter speed blur. After all don't we 
> deliberately use slower shutter speeds sometimes in sports to capture the 
> action motion? No difference here in her motion, particularly when we know 
> she's excited about getting married. It actually adds to the emotional 
> feeling of the pictures.
>
> Good for shooting it in this fashion, although I assume it was a low light 
> scene and you didn't have much choice but to use a slow shutter speed. 
> Others might have said  .... "oh I can't shoot this she moving too much!" 
> Or worse, used a damn twinkie flash and blown away all the excitement of 
> the girls actions.
>
>>The pictures are not all sharp. She was an animated subject
>> who refused to pose, or slow down. Something about the excitement. The
>> restaurant was dark, I was shooting at probably 2.8 at a 15th, I don't
>> remember (it was last week, after all). When I printed them yesterday, to 
>> my
>> eye some of the not-quite-sharp results contained enough personality to
>> become keepers.  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album93/MM4a is closest 
>> to being sharp.<<<
>
> Quite frankly for my money you did a damn fine job capturing the exciting 
> moments of this conversation. And certainly the girls excitment.
> ted
>
>
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