Thanks for the great recommendations Christine. I'm very sorry to hear you're in a funk. Do say if there's anything I/we can do to help perk you up. More cat pix perhaps?
I just had to find out what was meant by stutter step and located this article: http://dbeckerman.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/street-photography-techniques/ Quite interesting to me as a total nube on the subject. Cheers! On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Darrel & I watched a nice PBS video tonight entitled American Photography: A > Century of Images. It's a nice sweeping overview of the photograph > (1900-2000) and its impact on life, history et al. The commentary by art and > photography historians is good, and it was still fun to revisit all the > iconic images you'd expect to see from the 20th century. I recommend it for > those who haven't seen it already. > > I also just finished the book The Essentials of Street Photography by James > Maher, which was also worth a read. Divided into 4 parts, it covers the > conceptual and technical considerations of street photography as well as the > editing process. It then finishes with interviews with Matt Weber, Blake > Andrews, Mike Peters, Richard Bram, Jay Maisel, and Dave Beckerman. Maisel's > work is amazing. You can see his work here if you're interested > www.jaymaisel.com . Also included in the book are some pretty good > exercises. Today, on the way to the subway I had the camera in hand and > practiced the "stutter step" with not much success, I think. I do think the > book may be too basic for many on the list, but for me it was just what I > needed to lift my photographic spirits so to speak--even if for just a little > while. Life really sucks at the moment. > > I haven't forgotten PAW; I have the frames on my camera for the last 3 or 4 > weeks; I just haven't had the time--or the interest--to get them on the > computer and processed, and I took some photos today, but more to practice > the stutter step then to actually photograph something, but I'm on spring > break now and despite all the work I have to confront during break, I'm > determined to find an afternoon to have a proper photo walk. > > I certainly haven't forgotten about you guys, and I know I'll be more active > soon. I just need a bit more time to get through this really bad patch life > has made for me and Darrel. > > Big cheers and I'll probably pop back on the list later in the week. > Christine > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
