Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/10

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Subject: [Leica] New seagull photo uploaded
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Aug 10 20:31:37 2006
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You've got a good eye... nice set of photos.

Jim

P.S. 6x6 photos have been shown here before.

Craig Roberts wrote:

> Hey y'all,
> 
> I've added a second seagull shot to the gallery. This, obviously, was 
> taken within minutes of the first one, though in shadow this time.  
> Therefore, it has a vaguely menacing mood as compared with the first 
> one,   With a wider aperture and much less DOF, I elected to prefocus on 
> the area where the birds were approaching the boat.  I think shots like 
> this demonstrate the unique advantage of the rangefinder camera.  You 
> can "see it coming" and time the shutter release accordingly.  It's much 
> harder to do with an SLR and -- because of shutter lag -- darned near 
> impossible with any digital camera I've used.  Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/FishTown/Gull_2
> 
> I've also added a couple of new ones to the black and white sub-album:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Monochrome-studies
> 
> I'd like to post some local (Washington, DC) photos,. but I've been 
> shooting everything with my Rolleiflex SL66 these days.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Craig Roberts
> 



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