Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello fellow Luggers! I'm just getting into rangefinder photography, although SLR photography has been a hobby for the last 5 years. I posted here once before and one person gave me a good tip on which lens to use, another told me to avoid flash, great advice, thank you, that helps a lot, but my f/2 lenses are a bit slow with 400 film for the kid of photos I want to make, still, I will not use flash again, as it is ruinous, I now see; and another Lugger gave me some sound advice that I don't need to fret about what lens or film I use, but just use the same film for one season or for one year. I will try to keep to a film diet, but with two films rather than one - Neopan 400 and Provia 400X , because I enjoy transparencies. Um, could you chaps take a wee look at some of my latest attempts (www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete)and tell me where I'm going wrong, what bad habits I might be developing, and what, if anything, I'm doing that is interesting and needs bringing out? I think some of my photographs are low in contrast, too many are centre-framed (because I imagine the photo I want, and my brain keeps it, but after focus is achieved in the middle of the viewfinder, my forefinger squeezes the button instead of waiting for me to recompose. Lazy, impatient or not practiced enough, I'm not sure which. Advice of all kinds welcome, as before. Thank you! Peter