On 12/3/05, Mat Maessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like this one.
Thanks, Mat. I appreciate that you took the time to look and comment! > The square framing works well. I'm undecided whether > I'd like it more with more blurred background. It would definitely > change the feel of the picture a bit, but I'm not sure if it would be > an improvement. I was wondering that myself, but the more I look the more I think that the streetcar and telephone wires over the intersection and that old bank building in the background are somehow a part of the story (whatever that story may be). I'm coming to think that I like the background sharpness about where it is. > Out of curiousity, does the lightmeter on your Yashica Mat work? Nope. > And > if not, were you metering somehow, or just judging exposure by > guessing/experience? I have a very cheap old Weston handheld meter that I got on eBay several years ago for under $10. It's quite horrible in any sort of dim light, but fine for outdoors, so really, it suits my needs with the Mat. If I'm street shooting, I don't meter every shot; rather I meter and then change my exposure as I walk along according to changing conditions (shadows, clouds in front of the sun, etc.). Occasionally I pull the meter out of my pocket and check the exposure, just to make sure. In this case I didn't meter because I didn't want to draw attention to myself. She didn't know that I took a couple of frames of her, I suspect due to the waist-level finder. Even though I was only a couple of feet from her, and she was looking in my direction, she never looked down at the camera or at me - I guess she thought I was just fiddling around with the controls or settings or something. Turned out that I'd pretty much guessed on the right exposure. > I ask, because my EM's lightmeter is completely dead, and I still > don't trust my exposure guesstimates. Damn those cameras. I mean they're only around 45 years old - don't they build anything to last anymore? <vbg> cheers, frank > > -Mat > > -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
