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Subject: [Leica] My barber
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Wed Aug 24 05:11:50 2005
References: <4cfa589b05082320415d4296ff@mail.gmail.com>

Adam,
You have posted a nice environmental portrait of a friend.  I realize
that the background is cluttered but was there an angle that would
show that he was a barber without all the clutter?  Not really a
gripe, just a comment on visual cues to place the person.

Also a question, if you were able to shoot a 1/400, why didn't you
drop the ISO to 400 and shoot a 1/100.  Should be plenty of speed to
hand hold a 70mm and the tones would have been smoother. 
Artistically, I wanted to see really clean smooth tones.  Of course,
you could have been looking to create the grain effect on purpose
which is why I pose the question.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 8/23/05, Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've lived in Davis, at the same address, since 1980. Ski has been my
> barber, and my kid's barber, the whole time. He's a serious
> weight-lifter, football "invester", and (of course) day-trader. If he
> gets into real estate I know the bubble has popped.
> 
> He's a great guy. Today I took my camera to the new shop he shares
> with his brother, mostly to show my kids what it looks like. But there
> wasn't anyone there and so I snapped a few pictures in natural light.
> 
> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/08/23/_L3U5268-bw.jpg>
> 
> This is at 1600 with the 1Ds Mk II and the 24-70 f2.8L zoom, shot wide
> open at 70mm, 1/400th of a second.
> 
> I never was able to get neopan or TriX to do as well.
> 
> This IS a cropped image, I didn't care for the flat panel TV and it
> just needed to have some odds and ends removed.
> 
> Comments and criticism are most welcome.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
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