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 04:19:47 2005
References: <ce.7404f0df.30956e2e@aol.com> <2B9AD66D-9B79-4B61-A41E-86C27750ABF4@cox.net> <006401c5dcf6$2c0d45a0$1ae76c18@ted> <4cfa589b0510292244n8f74429g55d6068537994380@mail.gmail.com> <59F4DC66-CBF2-441F-B74D-13DC1D9A2F7F@cox.net> <ff95b3cd92afc53907291db62de2d5ca@mac.com> <5D6CBD1D-F9AF-42F7-A93B-E68A2F03C727@cox.net> <0db21818fa7f0d44735192ddcde1f63c@mac.com>

:-))     wonderful.... better food than I have, but he's not dressed  
better than me right now...

Steve


On Oct 30, 2005, at 5:12 AM, David Cochran wrote:

> Are you sure Steve?
>
> Wasn't he looking at this?....Orchestra Hit Hitchcoknian style!!!
>
> http://www.frappr.com/lug/photo/170232
>
>
> :-P
>
>
> D.
> On Oct 30, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>
>> 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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