Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very nice, Mark! The silhouettes look like they are painted, something along the style of Seurat... All the best from the south of France! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.tarekcharara.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 4 ao?t 10 ? 00:18, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : > Thanks Dick in effect edited down from hundreds of shots. > A shot is only as good as the ones on the bench. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > >> From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:38:57 -0400 >> To:m Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lincoln Center Fountain silhouettes at night >> >> Mark - Love the silhouette. The gal in the middle gesturing makes >> it for me. >> I really like the "joiners," too. They remind me of David >> Hockney's work with >> 4X6 prints but yours are more ethereal; have a lighter touch. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> On Jul 31, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100704_225458.jpg.html >>> >>> >>> I don't know how I got such tack sharp results shooting at 100th >>> of a second >>> with a 200mm focal length with a 1.5 crop circle factor camera at >>> night. >>> But its the ultra compact 55-200 again. And so an effective at >>> full frame >>> format 300mm @ 100th of a second! >>> To me the dioramas presented by people in this At Josie Robertson >>> Plaza >>> Fountain; called The Revson Fountain every night are amazing. But >>> I usually >>> have a wide on my camera. And luckily this night a week or two ago >>> I had a >>> long lens on. >>> >>> The people in the shot when they see me taking pictures of them >>> off off to >>> the side assume I'm getting their faces. They don't know I'm just >>> getting >>> their outlines. So its an unusual deal. I feel real brave because >>> I don't >>> feel like I'm invading anyone's privacy. But THEY don't know that. >>> Much of >>> what goes on at the fountain is people taking pictures of each >>> other. But >>> with flash usually. Not at this moment though. >>> And here I am standing off with a long zoom speaking with a >>> student with a >>> camera bag who had the same exact lens on her camera. Both the non >>> VR >>> version...who needs virtual reality when we have the real thing? >>> >>> >>> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/11/100111fa_fact_seabrook?printab >>> le=true >>> Or >>> http://tinyurl.com/38474c4 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> mark at rabinergroup.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information