Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW - try again
From: Andrew Schroter <schroter@optonline.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 08:27:15 -0700
References: <3B5CED4E.C59314A@hillmanimages.com> <3B6A4483.EA7B3B2A@webshuttle.ch>

If at first you don't succeed, click, click again.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW - try again


> Dave,
>
> I was not sure if your comments were tongue-in-cheek or not, probably they
> were, but  I will venture a serious reply anyway. Yes, it is true that the
> LUG tends to respond more to pictures of people, as this is the genre that
> made Leica famous. But Leica lenses are just as good for other purposes,
and
> you should not tailor your PAW to what you think the audience likes. You
> should choose the pictures you think represent your work, your life,
> whatever, during the week in question and post them, period. This does not
> mean that you should not respond to constructive criticism and take it on
> board, this is after all one of the main purposes of posting one's work on
> the Internet, but you should not impose self-censorship on yourself to
> please the LUG.
>
> I tend to post people pictures on my PAW, but if, like Week 29, my
> photography was dominated by landscape, then I post landscape shots. In
the
> final analysis my PAW has to satisfy ME before anyone else.
>
> Nathan
>
> BTW, I still like your picture of the two girls.
>
> Dave Hillman wrote:
>
> > No one except me liked my first effort a PAW.  So, from the same roll I
> > picked another and relegated the first try to alternate.  I think you
> > critics like pictures of people, so this is my first try at what might
> > be called 'street photography'.  This is a new genre to me, so I may
> > have it all wrong.  Do I need to convert it to b&w, add some grain as if
> > it was 3200 speed and twist it 20 degrees as though I wasn't looking
> > through the view finder?  Please advise.  I tried to pick the decisive
> > moment and this was one of the few I tried in which my reaction time was
> > short enough that no one stepped in front of the camera.  Instead the
> > violent poke at the release succeeded in blurring the image and I missed
> > the look on the girl's face when she was handed a crab.
> >
> > I think I should go back to old trolley cars.
> >
> > http://www.hillmanimages.com/bw/L6-5b.html
> >
> > ---
> > Dave Hillman
>
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
> Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland
>
> e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch
>
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>
>

In reply to: Message from Dave Hillman <dave@hillmanimages.com> ([Leica] PAW - try again)
Message from Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> (Re: [Leica] PAW - try again)