Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At work, we call it the money shot. I love it when I get the money shot. Everything works. And you know when you have it. Joyce Tenneson once commented that sometimes when she shoots a portrait she will shoot only 1 or 2 frames. She knows that she got what she saw in the person on film, no reason to shoot more. She got the money shot. Leo On Apr 3, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Victor Rubin wrote: > Just a quick comment about the Gibson Contact Sheet- It's rare for me- > but isn't it great when we go out to shoot, and we know exectly what > we want. Pre-visualize, so to speak. Then we bracket etc., or not even > bracket...but our contacts, or images are all so close that we don't > really see differences. The last time that happened to me was in > Portugal with a fisherman- I was driving by, saw the man- saw the > picture... shot so many images, all the same...all just what I wanted. > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/vroger/image-60534.html > > For those of us who spur of the moment "street shoot" and wear our > cameras as part of our body (something pointed out to me in high > school...so loooong ago), how great is it, to see something and > immediately allow that photo to take over our mind- and then translate > that into an image. Happens all too rarely. vroger > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >