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Subject: [Leica] M8 Candles...
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Sun Jan 7 11:16:44 2007
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Ted,

Sounds like a plan to me. Thanks. ;-)

Len


On Jan 7, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Leonard Taupier offered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Candles...
>
>
>> OK. I admit it. I'm a candle person. I have tried maybe 3 or 4  
>> times  in the past year to get that perfect still life, with  
>> candles and a  glass of wine and maybe a flower in the picture, in  
>> a darkened room.  But I'm not there yet. I'll keep trying though.  
>> In b&w. Very romantic.
>
> Hey Len old buddy maybe yer working too hard?
>
> Here's what I do, colour or mono.
> Open bottle of wine, set glass, candle and interesting looking  
> woman at the table.
>
> Camera loaded with whatever film and ready to go, shooting with R8  
> and whatever lens will work under these conditions hand held. Some  
> one else lights candle or candles, I focus, camera picks shutter  
> speed, it looks cool to me in viewfinder, I whisper nice things ,  
> lady looks romantic, I go click! And?
>
> Very nice candle lit picture.:-)
>
> Then some one hands her a long stem rose and she does things  
> playing with the rose and I shoot as the expressions change.
>
> Final shot? She has the rose stem in her teeth kind of smiling  
> while holding up the glass of wine toward camera and also trying to  
> look suggestive with all this at the same time..... I go click!;-)
>
> It's a rap! Candles go out, pictures look interesting!
>
> See how easy that was? Now go for it old buddy! ;-)
>
> ted
>
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