In a message dated 10/12/2005 7:28:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can't type enough to properly discuss, but i often feel great intimacy with certain of my subjects, even ones that i didn't interact with at all, except to photograph in a fleeting moment. don't know why, but i do. maybe it's illusory, but it's there none-the-less...
-frank ============ Yeah. Connectedness. It's a tricky thing. Maybe we are really photographing some aspect of ourselves when we photograph others. Mirror/glass. Forget my subsequent post. Don't mean to make you type. :-) Just been thinking about things and wondering. Re Gallery. I figured it out. I am now finally comfortable enough with the camera that I am not thinking about it every time I shoot. I was playing. I didn't do shallow DOF which might slow me down nor exposure compensation which might also. And those are two areas I still have more to learn about. But I was playing. Snap, snap, snap. The cable car shot was decided on and taken in about 20 seconds. Not frank (yeah, hehehe) was about the same, a tad slower, maybe a minute max, but probably less. Ditto with Ride 'em Cowboy and Whatizit, about 30-60 seconds. Real quick. From decision to positioning to taking. Whatizit, no, maybe a minute and a half or two. I did walk up toward it. Frankly I never thought I'd reach this point. Comfortable with the camera. I still have areas to learn regarding the camera itself (like the above), but it feels good to just get to this point. Although if I had worked more, more shots might be a lot better. But that day I wasn't in the frame of mind to work. So it's nice to know I can play with the camera and not totally hoover. Later, Marnie ;-)
