Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/30

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Subject: [Leica] eyes...
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Oct 30 04:11:02 2005
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On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:58 AM, David Cochran wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation Steve.
>
> Now we know what was the guy with the iMac reacting to....;-)
>
> naughty, naughty...yey, yey?...


no, no... he was noting the current price on the leica digital back...

Steve


>
> D.
> On Oct 30, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>>
>>> This is an interesting observation for me, Ted....
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>> faces on conventional screens, we're able to see where people belong
>>> in relation to one another or their surroundings"
>>> chop..................
>>> I had the same reaction as Ted - the man at the computer had context
>>> while only the man on the telephone had any sense of context at all.
>>> chop...........................
>>> I believe Steve's portrait of the man and his computer - and, of
>>> course, his eyes - is what gives the image it's power and why I
>>> reacted to it.
>>>
>>>
>> chop............
>>
>>> On 10/29/05, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's a completely different photograph to a "portrait style" as  
>>>> we see in
>>>> the other pictures. I don't doubt Steve is going to achieve the  
>>>> kind of eye
>>>> series he has in mind, but it's not an easy subject to shoot.  
>>>> Well any
>>>> subject is a tough thing to shoot when building a series of  
>>>> excellent
>>>> photographs, but he'll do it.
>>>>
>>
>> thanks guys....  I have learned from your viewpoints and this  
>> intriguing discussion.
>>
>> Here are the facts... they are true....(and my nickname is not  
>> Scooter...).
>>
>> I went to a camera store here in Phoenix... I took a roll of  
>> film...BW400CN.
>>
>> I borrowed from their stock a Leicaflex SL and a Summicron 90mm  
>> f2, off  the shelf...and I used this equipment, shooting the roll  
>> of film over the next 30 minutes, of the employees at work in the  
>> shop.
>>
>> voila..film developed, PS, some cropping...
>>
>> context, clear or not... at work, same room, within 20 feet of one  
>> another... camera people...  all reacting one way or another...  
>> looking or not.
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
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