Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] CLOISTERS/PEOPLE
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Tue Oct 18 18:11:32 2005
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Thanks for looking Don.  Sounds we both found the same "Picture 
Spot."  It would be interesting to see some of yours.  Are they 
posted?

I had a great afternoon there.  Shot 7 rolls of film.  I'll probably 
post a few more shots from my visit in a few days.

>Richard,
>It is always interesting to see how different people see the same spot. When
>I was at the cloisters, I shot the bowl of flowers lit by a shaft of light
>in the chapel, I shot down one of the rows of columns in the same spot you
>shot http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/06_02_0177_web , and I shot a couple
>playing touchy/feely at the end of that same corridor.
>  Thanks for showing.
>  Don
>don.dory@gmail.com
>
>  On 10/18/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>  The Cloisters in upper Manhattan is a reproduction of a Medieval
>>  castle set on a tall bluff overlooking the Hudson. It's about
>>  70-years old. The Metropolitan Museum of Art operates it as a museum
>>  of Medieval art. I have been trying to get people in my photos more
>>  often and used this visit to push the envelope a bit.
>>
>>  Visitors looked at art:
>>
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/03_29_0341_web
>>
>>  Studied the castle:
>>
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/03_23_0335_web
>>
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/04_15_0302_web
>>
>>  and just took in the warm late-September mid-afternoon sun.
>>
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/06_02_0177_web
>>
>>  These were all shot with an M7 and either a current version 50
>>  Elmarit or 35 mm Summicron ASPH on Fuji Press 400 film. The images
>>  are from professional 2 K x 3K scans converted to B&W in Photoshop
>>  with only the usual cropping and level tweaking done in connection
>>  with the conversion.
>>
>>  Comments welcome as always.
>>  --
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Dick
>>  Boston MA
>>
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-- 
Regards,

Dick

In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] CLOISTERS/PEOPLE)