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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW more water
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Wed Oct 12 08:19:27 2005
References: <9b678e0510090545j7a1679bdk1536fde53bb99cb4@mail.gmail.com> <p06230906bf718deed234@10.0.1.2> <9b678e0510112001t1f24b208r9799a52aec277b97@mail.gmail.com>

Don - Photography is so much about arresting motion that it very idea 
of exposing for such a long time as an hour seems anachronistic.  It 
takes us back to the days of Daguerre and Talbot.  I'm looking 
forward to seeing what you come up with.


>Richard,
>Thank you for looking and taking time to comment. I was using a shutter
>speed between 2 and 8 seconds. There is a photographer who has had a
>profound influence on me when it comes to water shots who uses speeds closer
>to an hour. Most water shots at between 1/4 and 1 second are a little too
>literal. Next stop will be a 5 to 10 stop ND filter so that I can shoot
>really long exposures of the world.
>  Don
>don.dory@gmail.com
>
>  On 10/11/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Don - These two really work for me. What ever shutter speed you were
>>  using in the first it was just right to capture the differing speeds
>>  of the water flow in different parts of the picture.
>>
>>  (snip)
>>
>>  > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album255/widerockshot
>>  > Fourth, I can't resist shots of lone rocks in the water:
>>  > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album255/lonerock
>>  >
>>
>>  In this one, I can't quite figure out what I'm looking at so I
>>  suppose it succeeds at being enigmatic, but I suspect you were going
>>  for something more.
>>
>>  >Last, a somewhat enigmatic image. I shot it from above, but I find the
>>  >perspective a little disturbing. I would like to know what others think.
>>  > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album255/waterfallverticleII
>>  > Enjoy your weekend, comment as desired, give what aid and thoughts you
>>  can
>>  >to the victims of the earthquake near Kashmir.
>>  > Don
>>  >don.dory@gmail.com
>>  >
>>  Thanks for the look.
>  > --
>  >

-- 
Regards,

Dick
Boston MA

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