[Leica] Wildly vague: shooting indoors

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

If HCB and Munk?csi are your faves you night experiment in your photography
doing what they do or did for a year. See if your shots come out better.
Don't eat cornflakes in the morning HCB ate Wheat Chex and Munk?csi ate
Raisin Bran.
I'd combine them.
Neither used 1A filters nor UV filters. Trust me neither of them would touch
them with a ten foot pole.
HCB used a 50 all the time. So I'd crazy glue a 50 to your camera.
Wide angles for show offs he'd say.
No clue what that could me you need to get into anarchy to understand it and
maybe be French.
A rangefinder camera not a SLR.
I just saw a great Munk?csi show last year in the International Center Of
Photography where I'm  going to see another show in a few days of Steichen
they had Munk?csis voice talking over a speaker about all kinds of stuff.
But not which gear he used.
Some odd thing like he's famous for being about the first guy to really
capture action people in the air
but he used a tripod. Something like that.
Sheet film maybe.
Its ALWAYS what you don't think.

Munk?csi as Avedon's main influence

And Avedon is probably mine.
Though you'd not know it from ANY of my photographs
:)

And he was also an up and coming photographers main influence by the name of
Henri Cartier-Bresson.



Avedon was into Grape Nuts.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Munk?csi


Mark William Rabiner



> From: TCB <tcb@thadbrown.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:58:29 -0600
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Wildly vague: shooting indoors
> 
> I've always shot everything I shoot outside. My two fave photogs are
> definitely
> HCB and Munk?csi, I like to go places and find interesting pictures, even 
> if
> it's
> a place that is no longer interesting to me. I also like to shoot a lot at
> night,
> since I have a very demanding straight job so a lot of daylight hours just
> aren't
> available. Whenever I'm a studio I feel like I'm a complete idiot and
> charlatan,
> which is probably not too wide of the mark.
> 
> So, great, who cares? We're having a horribly winter in New England (I 
> live in
> S.
> Connecticut), and I'm not hauling out a tripod and a MF camera when it's 11
> degrees outside. I know some of you do, and that's great, but I won't.
> Normally
> this time of year features lots of chilly (but not arctic) days with rain, 
> so
> it's pretty fertile ground. If you take pictures in New England outside you
> learn
> how to make rain look either good or bad, depending an your aesthetic
> preferences. 
> 
> All of this means that other than a few cool snapshots with the Contax T I
> keep
> in my pocket I haven't taken a picture in months. So, I'm throwing in the
> towel
> and want to create at least a corner of a room where I can take pictures of
> stuff
> I own that are pretty. This means musical instruments and gear (a Technics
> 1200
> is a lovely thing), some cool trinkets from travel, and maybe the best 
> picture
> I
> can take of an empty bottle of Washington Syrah.
> 
> I realize this is all uncommonly vague, but any links to web pages about
> setting
> up a decent little indoor shooting area? Backdrops? Light sources that are
> preferably simple and cheap and how to work with them? Gotchas and things 
> to
> be
> careful about?
> 
> Again, I understand I'm asking a very broad question, but any input would 
> be
> welcome. I really want to have some film to scan again.
> 
> TCB
> 
> 
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