Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You must be pretty amazing, Philippe - in the halcyon days of LIFE magazine, the rule of thumb used to be that two "keepers," two shots that the photographer herself really thought hit it, was doing well. On 7/10/05 3:06 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > For me it's the capacity of telling a story, or giving the spectator a > sense > of one's world, in 10 shots max. > But 20 out of 200 is not that great as an average IMO. > B.D., is she nice looking? ;-) > > >> From: Robert Meier <robertmeier@usjet.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:53:05 -0500 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop... >> >> What specifically are the qualities that make these more than random snap >> shots? What do you mean when you say 'one of these images' and 'one or >> two >> like these'? What are you looking at and seeing in them? >> >> >> >>> But when looked at carefully, they're not at all. One might spend an >>> afternoon in this situation, as she did, taking random snapshots, and not >>> get one of these images. Or, if one was lucky taking random snap shots, >>> get >>> one or two like these; she's got at least 20 out of 200- which is a >>> shockingly high success rate. >>> >>> >>> On 7/10/05 12:52 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Tamer than Clark, but very similar. The amazing thing is they look, at >>>> first glance, like random snapshots. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Or Larry Clark's stuff - She really has an eye. >>>>> >>>>> On 7/10/05 10:30 AM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Reminds me of aspects of Frederic Wiseman's amazing film "Belfast". >>>>>> >>>>>> bill h >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> >>>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:35 AM >>>>>> Subject: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> ...is discovering that one of your students has IT... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This work was shot by a 24-year-old woman named Casey Splain; >>>>>>> remember >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> name: >>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album244 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> B. D. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information