[LRflex] Re: Some people faces
- From: "Marc Dufour" <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:23:06 +0200
Hello Steve,
I only use the R 6.2, for many years, and the Digilux 3 since April
(although yet in a first approach phase)
During some years, i used also a Mamiya RB67, now dusty for not use. The
results I get in this moment, scanning slides from R 6.2, give almost the
same quality.
I also used a copy of Linhof Teknica, a short time, but I quickly tired to
carry it with the tripod cross-country !
The lenses I use:
For travel:
Vario-Elmar 1:3,5 / 35-70
Vario-Elmar 1:4 / 70-210
Elmarit 1: 2,8 / 24 (this one will stay at home the next time, cause I just
got a Vario-Elmar 1: 3,5-4 / 21-35 ASPH)
In other circumstances:
Summilux 1: 1,4 / 50
Summicron 1: 2 / 50
Apo-Macro-Elmarit 1: 2,8 /100
Apo-Telyt 1: 3,4 / 180
If I should have to choose, I should conserve the 35-70 for travels, and the
Summicron 50 for the rest, without any doubt.
The first one for its focal range, wich covers most of situations. A
marvellous lens.
The second one because its "natural" vision and perfect quality. To move
myself isn't a problem ;-)
Well, it's only an opinion.
Cheers,
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@xxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:22 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Some people faces
>
> On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Marc Dufour wrote:
>
>> Hello Steve !
>>
>> There are no secrets in my pictures !
>> As a graphic designer I am, I had the luck to share many hours, working
>> with
>> good professional photographers, and learning a lot from them.
>> But I think my background and training period in visual arts is what
>> really
>> helps me to select, isolate and frame, achieving some pictures.
>> Technically, my photos are often just OK, but not outstanding. Not
>> as the ones I can see from pros I know (who use 35 format only in few
>> occasions)
>> The only things I do (apart from getting the best lens
do you use exclusively 35mm cameras, R's, and what lenses do you
> prefer... ?
> (knowing very well that those things are not really the important
> things ! )
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>> I can, as everybody
>> here!) are:
>> - Observe the scene and try to select the visually important in it,
>> The
>> Thing which really appealed me.
>> - Look for the best framing, the one wich will improve this
>> important fact,
>> often isolating it.
>> - Begin to breathe deeply and slowly (seems a joke, but no!). Stop
>> in the
>> middle of exhale and, in apnea, catch the picture (an old trick
>> from the
>> army, they teached when I learnt to use rifles !)
>> I've to say I usually don't use faster speeds than 1/125, but many
>> times
>> slower, until 1/8, as in sunsets or storm pictures.
>> I tend to close the diaphragm as possible, often with an extra 1/2
>> pass...
>> And really, nothing more, but some thousands of "just regular
>> pictures",
>> before to get some more intersting ;-)
>> Cheers,
>> Marc
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:02 PM
>> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Some people faces
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Marc Dufour wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Steve,
>>>>
>>>> I'm very moved with your kind words.
>>>> You're right, some pictures I uploaded in the LUG (and others you
>>>> can find
>>>> in www.marcdufour.net) have been object of large format
>>>> enlargements, on
>>>> occasion of local exhibitions.
>>>> Precisely, I'm uploading now someones here, to give them a
>>>> greater and
>>>> permanent diffusion.
>>>> The only pictures I took with a commercial intention are the ones I
>>>> prepared
>>>> for my graphic designer activity.
>>>> But it's time to give to the other ones, these ones I caught for my
>>>> own
>>>> pleasure through the years, a chance to reach a wider audience.
>>>> Of course, I can supply a fine arts quality copy of each one, in
>>>> different
>>>> sizes. I'm at your disposal.
>>>> And, once again, very grateful with your comment !
>>>> PS: I just added a new chapter of People pictures, in the LUG.
>>>> Enjoy it,
>>>> please ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> marvellous work, we all can learn from it.... personally I am not
>>> buying presently, though I'd love to...
>>>
>>> some of these images are fantastic...
>>>
>>>
>>> and I'd like to learn how you accomplish this work...
>>>
>>>
>>> technical details perhaps... if you would...
>>>
>>> thanks Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>> foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@xxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:03 PM
>>>> Subject: [LRflex] Some people faces
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> Marc wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just added a second chapter of People pictures, in
>>>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/
>>>>>
>>>>> Marc.... you are a master photographer with wonderful use of color,
>>>>> great technique....
>>>>>
>>>>> many would be terrific enlargements and/or posters...
>>>>>
>>>>> maybe they have been made for sale already ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>
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