Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mitcha, are there a lot of Chinese in Myanmar now? I notice quite a number of stores have signs in Chinese. On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, <mitcha at mac.com> wrote: > Last month I was in the Shan State in Burma and have put together a book > project of some 80 pictures, called "Chiang Tung Days," that you can > download in the form of a 56 MB pdf file by clicking here: > > http://bit.ly/1asgee0 > > All of the photos were taken with the Summicron-35v4, whose rendering I > like -- this was the first time that I've shot with it in color on the M9. > While in recent years I have preferred the 28mm focal length to 35mm, in > the markets of the Shan State towns I visited there was so much congestion, > so many people in narrow paths or walkways, that I quickly found that, by > having to shoot closer up with the 28mm (as I usually do), there is so much > going on in the frame that the photographer cannot keep track of it all > when trying "to make sense of a complex scene," because one has to see > things both to the left and the right at the same, and the angle of view to > the edges is just too wide to make sense of the scene -- I mean not looking > through the viewfinder but looking at the scene before bringing the camera > up to your face. Using the 35mm lens solved all that. > > --Mitch/Paris > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto