On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:00:41 -0500, Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I like it. Good exposure. You've pretty much captured that classic > Leica B&W feel. Too bad about the car on the other side of the street > with it's lights on, but I'm guessing you weren't going to stand out > there much longer waiting for a "better" shot, blizzard or not. <g> > BTW, do you use a filter with HP5? I usually don't use a filter at > all, and have not had good results with HP5. > -- Thanks, Scott! Nope, no filter other than a UV. I really don't feel like paying (what seem to me to be) exhorbitant prices on eBay for little teeny 39mm filters, although I would like a yellow or orange filter for that camera, just to darken skies just a bit on sunny days. Mind you, I rarely have that camera pointed in a direction that the sky's in the frame anyway <g>. In terms of the composition, I actually don't mind the car over there. I kind of feel that seeing only one car is a stronger statement that the storm kept cars off the road than if there were no cars at all. I'm not criticizing your critique, BTW, just given my POV. I have to say, though, I snapped the pedestrian's photo, paying more attention to where she was in the frame than anything in the background. There were so few pedestrians on the sidewalks that day, and I could see that the wind was gusting just then, blowing her hair just so, and I felt that it was her or (maybe) no one. HP5+? I like it a lot, both in the CL and in my Pentax SLR's. It's a bit less "contrasty" than TriX (my favourite b&w ISO 400 film - maybe my favourite overall), but I find it's mid-greys more "silky" (don't know how better to describe it) than TriX. Thanks for looking and commenting. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
