On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Ken Norton <> wrote:
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>> That's funny...."very little skill"....
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>
>
> Well, tomorrow morning is the gathering of the "skill impaired" in central
> Iowa. Results are not guaranteed, but we'll try not to embarrass ourselves
> too badly.
>
> AG (less than little) Schnozz
OK, I wasn't fishing for compliments (but I deeply appreciate the kind
support!). All I meant is that if I get any good results, it's more a
matter of getting my rear end to a place at the right time, despite
the fact that there is usually a certain amount of hardship (early,
later, cold, or hot) and discomfort.
There was a guy, a Brit, whose book I borrowed from the library many
years ago. I don't recall his name. I liked many of his photographs
but I was struck by the fact that they all looked like they were taken
at about noon. Compositions were terrific, but the lighting looked a
little flat, like a 1950s postcard. Turns out he was a Leica shooter,
did not care to use a tripod much, and he loved to shoot Kodachrome
25. So most of his photographs were shot at about 1/60-1/125 (at the
fastest) and f2.8 or f4. Lenses primarily normal to wide, of course.
His contention, based on a couple of statements from his commentary,
is that only his Leica gear would give him the ability to produce
world-class landscape photographs at f2.8 (and, doubtless -- to
complete the image -- only after a good night's sleep to blow off the
single malt, a shower, a shave, and a proper breakfast first).
In shooting Olympus we have to suffer more for our art perhaps.
We'll see tomorrow, Ken!
Joel W.
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