Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don - Good ideas! Thanks. The one you liked best was a grab shot at just about the that distance. It was so bright that afternoon just about everything I shot was at f16 with a DOF of about 6" to infinity! I *am* fortunate to have the City so close and hope to spend a lot more time there to get reacquainted with my old home town. A lot has changed, much for the better actually, and I want revisit old places I once knew well, like the Wall Street/Battery Park area, and newly created places, like the West Side waterfront parks, that didn't exist when I was a kid. Haven't ridden the Staten Island Ferry in decades, either. I think I'll grab my now-Brooklynite son and his wife and take them for the classic New Yorkers' trip to sea this summer. :-) Photos of all this will be required, of course. Dick >Dick, >It looks like you had fun. But, only in 0053 were you close enough. With >the 15, if you can't touch the people you are too far away. Play with the >lens to sense the coverage without bringing the camera to your eye. You >will be amazed at how easy it is to shoot off hand from18 inches using guess >focus at f11. > >Enjoyed the series though and wish I could spend a day out in the city. > >Don >don.dory@gmail.com > > >On 5/30/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>Wide angle lenses are cool (showing my age there). These were all >>taken with a 15mm Heliar on an M7. I like dramatic imagery of the 15 >>and the way it can isolate people in even a crowded area like Times >>Square. Even better, people just two feet away will look at you with >>your camera to your eye and decide you couldn't possibly be taking >>their picture. >> >>All but two of these are full frame. Two have been cropped to what I >>guess must be about 21mm focal length. In some I've gone for an >>"all-alone-in-the-big-city" look, in another I was after a crowded >>look, in another I was just reporting what I saw. >> >>Love 'em or hate 'em, here they are. Comments encouraged. Thanks. >> >>Tourists 1 >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/1_25A_0083_web >> >>Tourists 2 >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/2_12A_0145_web >> >>Tourists 2 alternate >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/2_14A_0147_web >> >>Running Boy >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_01A_0020_web >> >>Wedding Party ( and don't they look young ;-) ) >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_15A_0034_web >> >>Kodak/Alone >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_28A_0047_web >> >>MI3/Alone >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/1_14A_0072_web >> >>Deep in the Crowd >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/3_34A_0053_web >>-- >>Regards, >> >>Dick >>Boston MA >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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