On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Christian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent set, frank. You could be like a photojournalist or something :-) "Like a photojournalist" - except I don't get paid or anything. ;-) Funny thing was, I saw lots of PJ types, all with big honking zooms. They stood at the fringes and snapped away. Didn't see a single one of them wading through the crowd as I was. Saw some interesting shots in the papers the next day, but they were a bit more - um - detached than mine ended up being. Every shot that day I took with my trusty old Vivitar f3.8 19mm. It is not a particularly sharp lens, and not very contrasty but I thought those technical shortcomings were more than made up for by the intimacy of the shots I was able to obtain by getting right in there and mixing it up with the marchers. Plus, the fact I didn't have a great long white lens on my massive DSLR made me look very "un-PJ" and hence not so intimidating. Thanks to everyone for the comments and thanks to all who looked. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
