Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]it is pretty clever. i'll let it go. my thing against statues is that typically you're just photographing a thing that someone else toiled over. andreas seranno -- he made little plastic sculptures into andreas seranno photos. if you want to photograph a statue, make it into something that's says something about you and not about the statue -- (e.g. about light or technical perfection, etc) and this is not just a statue, it's a clever photo that has a statue in it. nicely done. On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Certainly one of the most brilliant images ever posted to the LUG Welcome > Merrill someone forgot to tell you that the X1 is too slow to shoot > pictures > with. . A pervasive consensus on this list with the exception of maybe me > and maybe you. Viewpoints aside this is hard copy. Evidence to the > contrary. > > Ps > I also like the statue of the skate boarder in the background. Great color > paint job on that. I know its a statue as its well known that its > impossible > to capture action with the Leica X1. Its too damn slow. Everybody knows > that! There is a shutter lag of what? 7 seconds? > > There is an informal anti statue Statute here on the LUG. > But I bet for this shot Kyle will let it slide. > > Amazing getting the horse to hold that pose. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Merrill Morrow <merrillmorrow at mac.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:36:47 +0000 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] Different ambitions >> >> Newly acquired X1 recently taken on holiday >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Merrill/MInerva-1010584.jpg.html >> >> Thanks for looking >> >> Merrill >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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