Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oliver Bryk showed: Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Candids from long ago I recently discovered a cache of transparencies that I made in Paris in 1982. The scanned results are not as good as I would like (it's my fault, not the Nikon Scanner's) but I put some of them them up anyway at http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OBRYK/album61/ <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Hi Oliver, You have some very interesting "Paris looking subjects!" Do you think you look at and react to your photo moments of today in the same fashion you did 27 years ago? Or are you more astute at seeing / clicking almost simultaneous today than then? When we come across a bunch of slides or negatives from long ago I'm always interested in looking at the images to see how I was reacting to subjects 30-40-50 years ago or more. :-) Unfortunately I can't do that any longer as my 60 years of snapping 280,000 edited images out of however many thousands were actually exposed on assignments, are now in the National Archives of Canada's National Photo Collection. Before they were sent off, during a quiet time I'd venture into an old shoot just to see how I was relating then to light on subjects, composition and was I aware of shooting from the shadow side as I'm these days? Even more interesting is finding a frame or two that was never selected for printing, with today's reaction being "what the heck were you looking at you never selected that! You idiot?" :-) Trust me you don't have to go very far back to have that kind of reaction during any re-edit! :-) But really old stuff and you find something? It's like finding a diamond in the rubbish! :-) It leaves some kind of inside silent comment to yourself, "Damn, I didn't do too bad way back then!" Followed with an unseen inside smile and a touch of self appreciation. :-) But you can't blurt that out for two reasons, one it would make you look stupid on the first edit. Second it might be taken you were kind of bragging! :-( And one doesn't do that! So are you better today compared to 27 years ago? :-) Dr. ted :-)