Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the 2002 Cape Cod Leica Seminar, Sal DiMarco talked about using available light - he reached into his bag and pulled out his SF20 flash unit and said "this is the light I have available." Bill in Denver -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted Grant Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:28 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: DMR mk II ? Tina Manley offered: >> "This was no grab shot, no stolen moment. > The image was planned and set up right down to the use of supplemental > flash. Like any good environmental "portrait," this potent picture was > an effective collaboration, a visual dialogue [.] between subject and > photographer." <<< Tine Oh you darlin', :-) thanks a bunch because so many people think Gene walked around and shot as many of us do with what the light is as we find it. Gene Smith was a master "at lighting.", this takes nothing away from his ability as a photographer, but he was the master of using whatever "lights were available" to make his pictures as he imagined them to look. In other words many of his photographs were "set-up" in a photojournalistic looking fashion. But that's OK because that was his style of working, so he became very famous because of his style and one might say his idiosyncrasies. As the above explains. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited 1817 Feltham Road Victoria BC V8N 2A4 250-477-2156 ----- Original Message ----- From: "" <images@InfoAve.Net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: DMR mk II ? > At 08:25 PM 2/5/2006, you wrote: >>What, is there less light today than when Smith did Minamata (don't start >>up >>on that one please)? > > "Jim Huges, another Smith biographer, writes of the photograph in his > essay "Tomoko Uemura, R.I.P":(Huges). This composition of the subjects was > carefully arranged, the chiaroscuro effect planned and counted on. What > would this photograph have conveyed if the camera allowed the viewer to > see shabby, poverty filled background? One of the things that a background > would do is to take away from the mystical power of the photograph in this > form. By isolating the subject from a heavily specific environment, Smith > achieves an effect that cloaks it in a universal appeal." > > ;-) > > Tina > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information