A Photo A Day #010

Dog in a box

Well, I don't really post a photo a day, but I do try to take a photograph a day. Guess I'll have to change the label name.

Spending Way Too Much Time Online

If you are like me, spending too much time looking at other photographer's work, wondering how to achieve beautiful shots; perfect composition---staring at that Leica... STOP! I bemoan the lack of time to shoot, yet I trawl the internet looking for a quick for my gear lust. If only I can put my time into shooting, I figured I'll be a damn great photographer by now. This insatiable appetite for gear has to stop. The envy for other photographers' projects has to stop. Need to get out and shoot.

Maybe just one more Leica CL + 40mm Summicron...

Bookmark This and Read When GAS-ing For A Leica

Rangefinder as a Conceit?

A Short excerpt:

Does a rangefinder camera make you a better photographer? 

I have heard a lot of people, including several I respect very much, make the somewhat extravagant claim that a Leica or some other 35mm rangefinder camera makes better pictures, frees you up to be creative, allows you to "see" the subject, makes focusing easier, etc. There is only one adequate response to that: bullshit. You ability to make good photographs comes from within — the powers of composition and visual discrimination that make good pictures don't depend on whether or not you are holding a box that says Leica, Voigtlander or Konica rather than a differently-shaped one that says Nikon, Canon or Contax. Those powers are within you. Maybe a rangefinder brings you confidence, like a pair of Johnston & Murphy shoes at an interview, but it doesn't make you any better at making pictures.

Photography Quote #003

"I Think Film is like Sex...the more you talk about it, the less you make it" --rangefinderforum

Photography Quote #002

“If I knew how to take a good photo, I’d do it every time.” --Doisneau