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Subject: [Leica] Lincoln Center Fountain silhouettes at night
From: tcharara at mac.com (Tarek Charara)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:15:04 +0200
References: <C87E0DF1.1523%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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

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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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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