Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Isn't this a bit over dramatized? It appears to be a group of College level guys messing around in an apartment, with an older female having a discussion in 1 shot. We do not know that the shots are not studio set ups. We also do not know the shots were not taken on an 11x14 camera or a Brownie Hawkeye or a Canon digi-whatever. I suspect the lady that took the shots was not too worried about "getting jumped"....in the vicious sense..... She is generally shooting from the floor level up to the subjects. The shots are nice, and evocative of a certain period of photography ( the 30"s?). Yes, well composed ( no cropping is assumed in that comment) and technically well done. But "it".. I am not certain. I would like to see more of her work, and this was a good teaser for me.... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net What are you talking about, Philippe? And what successful documentary photographer of the last 40 years, working in that kind of fluid situation, shot or shoots with 2 1/4 and has the luxury of revisualization? This isn't shooting on a movie set - it's shooting in a situation where the photographer has to spend as much time previsualizing whether he or she is going to get jumped, as he or she has time to spend on previsualizing the shot. B. D.