Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>As for Nan Goldin: "Goldin's work is most often presented in the form of a >slideshow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slideshow>, and has been shown at >film festivals; her most famous being a 45 minute show in which 800 pictures >are displayed. The if you look at that slide show though, which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BqIx5DHgg the first 40 images at least are all lit with a flash -- & this one of the great documentary photography projects of the last 50 years. Just because she sometimes takes fuzzy photos in available light doesn't mean she won't use a flash when she thinks the situation calls for it. Mary Ellen Mark is also not afraid to put a flash on her Leica -- many of the photos in Falkland Road are lit with flash: http://www.maryellenmark.com/frames/falkland.html And a good many of her iconic images of Mother Theresa: http://www.maryellenmark.com/frames/mteresa.html It seems weird to say that rangefinders weren't meant for flash -- they have a hot shoe, the new ones have TTL. There are world famous Leica-using documentary photographers who have a flash in their camera bag, and it has batteries in it. It's just another skill set to learn and use when appropriate. I forget who said (i'm paraphrasing) "if you have a flash available, then that's part of your available light". On Oct 6, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > But Diane Arbus' and Weegee's subjects are all very aware that they are > being photographed and are looking straight into the camera. Fine for what > they were doing but not what I want at all. > > As for Nan Goldin: "Goldin's work is most often presented in the form of a > slideshow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slideshow>, and has been shown at > film festivals; her most famous being a 45 minute show in which 800 > pictures > are displayed. The main themes of her early pictures are love, gender, > domesticity, and sexuality; these frames are usually shot with available > light <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Available_light>. She has > affectionately > documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms and barrooms, drag > queens, sexual acts, and the culture of obsession and dependency. The > images > are viewed like a private journal made public." > > and a quote from her: > > "Actually, I take blurred pictures, because I take pictures no matter what > the light is. If I want to take a picture, I do not care if there is light > or no light. If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what. > Sometimes I use very low shutter speed and they come out blurred, but it > was > never an intention like David Armstrong started to do what we call, he and > I, "Fuzzy-wuzzy landscapes." He looked at the back of my pictures and > studied them. He started to take pictures like them without people in them. > They are just out of focus landscapes. He actually did it, intentionally > threw the camera out of focus. I have never done it in my life. I take > pictures like in here when there is no sun or light that I think all my > pictures are going to be out of focus. Even Valerie and Bruno and whatever > I > take, because there is not enough light, and so I use a very low shutter > speed. It used to be because I was drunk, but now I am not. The drugs > influenced all my life. Both good and bad. I heard about an artist in > Poland, Witkacy, who wrote down on his paintings all the drugs he was on. > Depending how many drugs he took, that is how much he charged for the > portrait. I saw his portrait at the National Museum, a kind of German > expressionism, and I loved it." > > Tina > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> And as far as the use of flash goes in general my brain goes immediately >> to >> Dianne Arbus who flashed the hell out of everybody all the time and nobody >> complained. >> And don't even start me with Weegee. >> >> Not all the flash users were dolts. Some were very respected and were very >> smart, funny and nice. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >>> From: Kyle Cassidy <leicaslacker at gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:28:11 -0400 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another M9 question >>> >>> Nan Golden shot with a Leica and a flash all the time (as far as I know >> she >>> still does). There's a photo of her in the Portfolio biography with an M6 >> and >>> a Leica flash with what looks like a lumiquest bounce card. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>>> Try getting on to flickr and trying to find m pix shot with flash. >>>> I bet its difficult to impossible. Even with hundreds to pic from. >>>> You don't really need flash with full frame DSLR's. Let along a >> Rangefinder >>>> M. >>>> You've got pie in the sky ISO's now. >>>> >>>> -------------------- >>>> Mark William Rabiner >>>> Photography >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>>> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information