Lon, your comments are interesting. Some of the things that tend to make the first shot a keeper:
1. Can't afford a lot of film and processing. This kind of makes one find a picture before shooting. 2. You don't get no second chance. This is probably where you wife's technique comes from. 3. Look, look, look, look, look, shoot! Pass on the medeocre stuff. 4. Learned on a camera that only gives you a few shots per roll. Where I come from. 5. Learned on a camera that required a lot of fiddling before you could shoot. 6. Don't give a damn. Impatience is the driving force. ANY OTHERS? Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lon Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:21 AM Subject: Re: "My" Photography Show > No reframing, no puddling around, etc. > Reminds me of my wife and how she shoots. > Instinctive, no fooling around, first shots usually a keeper. > She's much better than I am at most types of photography, I am > better than her at stuff that requires patience. She's _much_ > quicker, a by-product of her 5 years as a photojournalist on a > small midwestern paper, I assume. > > I'm not sure the guy approach of "understanding" technical details helps. > Notice how much bandwidth Caveman and Pal have wasted over _accurate_ > exposure recently? > > I read this book recently titled, I think, "Faces", by a woman > photographer for a London newspaper. She ran around for about > 35 years with a meterless OM camera, B&W film, and a 200 watt tungsten > light bulb (she sometimes assaulted a lamp with it if she needed a bit more > light). Her typical shot was with a 100mm f2.8 lens, wide open. > > Her stuff is, of course, very good. She mentioned she noticed that > either the first or last frame on a roll was often the keeper. > > Sounds like you are a first frame sort of person. > > > >
