Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/07

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Subject: [Leica] landscape photography advice?
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:39:59 -0400
References: <4AED17FC-5830-4ED9-BB7D-04F62DDE3812@reid.org>

The old advice would be to use a good tripod.  Not sure it's still in  
vogue.

-rei

Ridgewood, NJ
via iPhone

On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Elizabeth Reid <elizabeth at reid.org> wrote:

> I have a friend who gets to travel to many amazing places for work  
> (Alaska, Hawaii, Venice, the Galapagos... the list goes on) and is  
> interested in taking pictures of them, for obvious reasons. However,  
> she's currently using a basic point-and-shoot and hasn't really put  
> much thought into photography as an art (or skill, or anything more  
> than seeing something pretty and taking a snapshot of it). Do any of  
> you have any advice I can pass onto her for how she can improve?  
> Landscape photography is not really my specialty, so I don't have  
> any favorite photographers or books to point her toward, and I don't  
> have a firm grasp on what the right sort of camera might be to use.
>
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