Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hell, If I'd have known that I could have saved lots of dough and bought some Pentaxes. Walt P.S. Ted, Ralph Morse used to come to the Cape all the time for launches. A hell of a nice guy and a real gentleman. Ted Grant wrote: > B. D. Colen offered wisely: > > >> The only way to get photos "like HCB" has nothing to do with what lenses >> you have in a drawer, or what camera you use them on; it is to be >> born with >> his artistic ability and sensibility. HCB would have shot "like HCB no >> matter what equipment he had used, as long as that equipment had allowed >> him to realize his vision. I'd concentrate on developing the vision, not >> trying to ape the style. ;-)<<<< > > > > B.D., > And after 56 years of pushing the button in this wonderful profession > of photography I still hear people say... "Oh you use Leica's no > wonder your pictures are so good!" :-( > > People aren't any brighter today that equipment is the minor part of > capturing what a photographer is motivated by. The most important > thing is, you've got to be visually motivated first above all else! > > About 1958 at a seminar with Ralph Morse of LIFE magazine, who became > the most influential person in my life on equipment, when he > said....." Money can buy you everything in equipment, but it can't buy > you the ability to see!" > > If you don't "see photographic moments," all the equipment in the > world wont make you a photographer of note! > > Ralph and the Photo editor of Weekend Magazine, Louis Jaques, who was > constantly on my case, "If you can see it, you can shoot it! As long > as you show no fear in making your equipment work." He was also a > devout Leica guy as one of the magazines earlier staff photographers. > > As you say, >>> "I'd concentrate on developing the vision, not trying > to ape the style. ;-)<< > > And why would anyone want to ape another photographer? Certainly when > we all see differently and re-act to varying moments in such diverse > manner? Isn't the challenge to blow "them off the planet" with better > seeing and have them want to ape you? > > ted > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >