RE: 5 am...

Steve Barbour showed:
Subject: [Leica] 5 am...

>>>>several were impressed at the idea of getting "out there" at 5 am for  
some magic light...<<<<<<<

But that's what sorts out the guys & gals that get different photographs
while everyone else is snoring! Besides if one really feels light makes the
difference they need to get out "BEFORE SUNRISE" and watch the light magic
happen as the sun comes over the horizon or in between buildings, whatever.

One of the things I tell people when they say "there's nothing to shoot
around my home town and I know I'd be really good in Japan or wherever."
Yeah right! BS!!

They don't know what they are talking about because if he or she can't shoot
interesting photographs of their own town or surrounding areas and have
never been out before sunrise.. They wont be one whit better anywhere else
in the world! If you can't create and cut it at home you sure as hell aren't
going to do it any place else!

Look it's the same story about shooting at the Olympics because we who have
been Olympic Games regular shooters over the years hear this line
constantly.

"WOW are you ever lucky shooting at the Olympics, it's no wonder you get
great photos. I bet I could do the same thing if I were there."  Then we
ask.. "Have you shot anything of the local high school track meet or any pro
sports? Or any sports at all?" "Well no but I know at the Olympics
everything is right there happening all the time." Yeah right! BS!!!!

And there's security requiring 400mm lenses as a normal lens, 4-5 hundred or
more other photographers squeezed into places for 100!" Besides if one can't
shoot solid sports pictures at home they sure as hell aren't going to do it
at the Olympics nor any place else! No matter what they think!

So when someone like yourself is out at 5 a.m. and others are impressed my
response to them is. "What's keeping you all cuddly and warm that you aren't
out there shooting the sunrise?" And being impressed with yourself? Shooting
the sunrise has been one of the highlights of the Leica Seminar every year
and very nearly every member is up and shooting it while getting some very
wonderful and imaginative photographs.

Besides it's one of the greatest "appreciating light learning moments" there
is and it's free! 

Steve also offered:
>>so here is another...yesterday....
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/5am.jpg.html>

But what a difference. This photo of what appears "sail like" is so far
ahead of the 5 a.m photo of the other day it's amazing. At least this one
has something more to making it a photograph than just light in the eastern
sky with what appeared some kind of non-descript buildings in silhouette. 

ted




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