Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michael, What was the film/developer for Week 41a? Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of MEBerube > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:07 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Re: PAW 52 MEB / Kid's Level Shooting > > > You all are correct of course...Other than the adorable > expression, I blew > this shot. (The neg is a bit over-exposed also to be perfectly honest.) > Shooting from "the 3 yo's level" would have made the photograph > MUCH better > as it did with with these other PAWs that I shot of her this year: > > http://www.goodphotos.com/OneAWk/01wk1a.jpg > http://www.goodphotos.com/OneAWk/01wk41a.jpg > http://www.goodphotos.com/OneAWk/01wk42a.jpg > > Needless to say, however the non-photographer grandparents LOVED > wk 52 and > of course are already bugging me for prints. (They are worse than real > clients!) :) > > Thanks for all the feedback this year. Honest and well meant > critique from > fine photographers such as found here on the LUG are invaluable > and greatly > treasured. > > I'm still thinking on how I'll do the PAW in 2002. I think I'll be doing > more specifically thematic shooting than this last year, but I'm still > working it out. > > Carpe Luminem, > Michael E. Berube > > At 07:27 AM 12/31/01 -0800, Nathan wrote: > >The photo is cute, but it suffers from the usual defect of children's > >photographs (I am guilty of this too on occasion), namely that you are > >standing up and looking down on Bethy. You need to get down in the snow > >yourself and be at her level. > > Ted agreed and expanded the sentiment with: > >Hi Nathan, > >I can't agree with you more. > > > >The biggest failure of most children pictures that come from LUG members > >is.......... the photographer forgets to bend their knees and > they don't get > >down to the child's level. Consequently they blow the picture 99% of the > >time when they could've had a fine child moment capturing a > simple activity. > > > >So for 2002, how about all you folks happily shooting kids > please get down > >to their level! :-) > > > >Hey, you might be very surprised at how much your pictures improve. :-) > >Hell most of you are much younger than me and I've got 10 > grandchildren to > >keep track of, so I have to do a fair amount of knee bending, > that I can do, > >no problem. > > > >However, it's getting back up is the problem. That and a > grandmother who's > >my worst nightmare if I don't get good pictures. ;-) So lets be > careful out > >there and bend those knees for great kid pictures. > > Doug humorously added a reminder from PLUG and gave us an example of kid > height shooting with: > > >The PLUG's 10 Commandments of Leica Photography > >1) Thy children are ugly. Do not make us look upon them. > >Michael, rules like these beg disobedience! Good on ya. > > > > > >The niece - Corri > >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=455437&size=lg > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html