Leica LTM Newbie dives deeper into Leica madness (WARNING nudity inside)

[rolleistef]

I wish there was the same policy on French photo forum Photim... but it's said that rudeness is one of our national attributes...
Are you sure you're a newbie? Are you sure you aren't Bruce Davidson hidden behind anonynity in order to stun other posters and stop them posting because we're so bad??

 

[Nokton48]

Sanders,

Your work has always reminded me of AVEDON. Fantastic stuff, you do, by the way.

Do you still have your Sinar Norma?

I have four of them myself, last year I got the 5x7 back. Haven't used it yet, though.

Anyway, Good to see you here.

 

[Sanders McNew]

I wish there was the same policy on French photo forum Photim... but it's said that rudeness is one of our national attributes...
Are you sure you're a newbie? Are you sure you aren't Bruce Davidson hidden behind anonynity in order to stun other posters and stop them posting because we're so bad??

Stéphanie, salut. Je suis américain mais j'adore la France et je parle francais (avec un accent affreux américain bien sur). J'ai visité votre blog et j'ai beaucoup aimé votre photo d'un père avec son fils dans le Metro; et votre essai au sujet de Sarkozy Bonaparte m'interessait beaucoup aussi.

And yes, I am a complete newbie in the Leica world! But I'm doing my best to be a fast learner.

Sanders

 

[Sanders McNew]

Do you still have your Sinar Norma?

I still have Norma but she's been gathering a lot of dust since I started shooting the Tele Rolleiflex back in December, and to be honest I try not to look at her since she glares reproachfully back at me out of that terrible unblinking brass eye of hers. Norma to Tele Rolleiflex to Leica: What next? A Minox? :-0

 

[Nokton48]

That appears to be the natural progression :-0

 

[raid]

I still have Norma but she's been gathering a lot of dust since I started shooting the Tele Rolleiflex back in December, and to be honest I try not to look at her since she glares reproachfully back at me out of that terrible unblinking brass eye of hers. Norma to Tele Rolleiflex to Leica: What next? A Minox? :-0

Sanders,

I use the Tele Rolleiflex along with the Leica and a Minox! It is possible.

Raid

 

[RML]

I think that the main problem is that many people now confuse nudity and pornography.

Where? Not where I live, they don't.

Back in the 1970's in Europe nudity wasn't such a problem. Almost all women were topless on beaches and some photography papers could regularly publish some nice nude images from great photographers like Bill Brandt, Jean-Loup Sieff or Art Kane (of course having a nude photo on the magazine cover was a marketing trick, too).

Check out the dutch beaches in summer. You'd be hard-pressed to find a piece of cloth among all that flesh, fat and blubber. I wish some people would wear more then they do.

Nudy mags are still easily available here, even on the bottom shelf. And some UK news papers are (in)famous for their page3 (?) girl, thought these aren't always really great to look at. Must be an English thing.


{quote]In many of the nice Fulvio Roiter's books about Italy, we can see stranger nude women bathing or having sun at the Italian beaches. I don't think Roiter got prosecuted in court for that. Was it now, he couldn't even publish his pictures.[/quote]

Heck, we even regularly find topless pics of royalty and other celebrities in the mags here. They don't like it much, and sometimes a mag gets sued, but they don't get convicted for publishing nudity.

Now that pornography is readily available everywhere on the Internet even for children, nudity offends. Topless women on beaches are less and less numerous but young girls walk downtown wearing quite not only not smart but undecent clothes, showing their belly buttons and string panties.

I rather preferred to see young women walking in the summertime cities streets wearing smart Italian shoes, well cut mini skirts and nice shirts, then meeting the same girls topless at the beach, than the upside-down manners we have to live with now.

Plus, just looking at a beautiful young woman in the street now can get you a knife blade hit from her boyfriend.

Odd place you live in. Really. Yes, there are people (girls, women) who wear revealing clothes, and some of it looks really *yugh* with the fat exposed and all. But many, many girls and women here wear very stylish, very appropriate clothing. Almost as if they're walking on the boulevards of Paris or Rome. On the beach I still see too much exposed blubber; not less. And the switch blade... there have been fights over girls for millenia, and they happen here too, but those are normally restricted to night time when people are out, drunk and excited.

Sorry, but I don't recognise the place you describe. Maybe I'm just blind.

 

[raid]

To each his own ...move on. This world is large, and cultures differ. Let's talk about photography.

 

[lynn]

The photograph of your wife is exquisite, but the photograph of your brother totally took my breath away, as, after a bit of a search - Todd's comment - did the portraits on your Flickr.

They are celebrations of the beauty inherent in every single human being. Thank you!

 

[jesse1dog]

Sanders

I found your first picture in this thread simply amazing. My first thought was to ask myself what I was doing even holding a camera. Instead I put a link into 'favourites' and looked again today. I often think that seeing a photo a second time round reveals other aspects. So I followed your link intp Flickr and found more photos of Melanie - what a stunning collection of expressions and moods you have captured.
But keep using the Leica II and please keep posting.

j

 

[tedwhite]

Sanders:

Your work is excellent. Unfortunately, when I went to your flickr site I got this statement:

"Sandersync doesn't have any photos available to you."

Shucks. I have a Rolleiflex 2.8E and I've always wanted a tele-rollei for portrait work, so I wanted to see what the images looked like.

Alas.

Ted

 

[Sanders McNew]

Unfortunately, when I went to your flickr site I got this statement:

"Sandersync doesn't have any photos available to you."

Shucks. I have a Rolleiflex 2.8E and I've always wanted a tele-rollei for portrait work, so I wanted to see what the images looked like.

Ted, I'm not sure why you were denied access -- I do not restrict access to the page. Because I post nudes on occasion, Flickr usually requires viewers to log in before showing some of the images. (Although, oddly, Flickr often allows people to see the nudes, while blocking the G-rated images.)

My own site is wildly out of date, and Flickr is the only place online that has many of my portraits of clothed subjects. Many of my nude portraits taken with the Tele Rolleiflex are available at www.onemodelplace.com/sandersm -- all of the squares under the Editorial section are Tele shots, as are many of the squares in the Portraits section at the bottom of the page. Caveat: If you don't want to see naked bodies, you really don't want to visit this page.

Sanders

 

[tedwhite]

Thanks, Sanders, for the second link. Very nice work. No, I don't mind nudes. Actually I'm doing one tomorrow in my studio. And my Rollei has a new life. Had a Maxwell screen installed by Ross Yerkes (plus a CLA), and it's dramatically easier to see through.

Ted

 

[nikon_sam]

Interesting thing happened today...
I showed my wife the Nude that FrankS (good photographer or good subject?) posted and she said "That's gross..."
Then I decided to show her the shot in this thread...She liked it...

Anyone??? Why??? I have my thoughts...

 

[NIKON KIU]

T, I think that's about it. I thought I was stretching to include the last post in the keeper pile.

Sanders

The first picture is Amazing, the second is one notch below the first and I agreee with you on the third...IMHO.

Kiu

 

[iml]

funny guy, thats not your pic, it's , i can give you links to 1000's of her pics. Nice try buddy

You're wrong. Look at the poster's flickr. It's quite clearly his wife.

Ian

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

funny guy, thats not your pic, it's , i can give you links to 1000's of her pics. Nice try buddy

That's an interesting (and underhanded) way of slinging mud. First of all, there is no Tcheck country (perhaps you were attempting to refer to the Czech Republic?).

And second, anybody with the slightest sense of kindergarden-level ability to compare the size of one sphere with another, you can clearly tell this is not a melons to melons comparison. That is not the person you claim it is.

You're an A Grade @...le

 

[tedwhite]

What Gabriel Said.

Ted

 

[Sanders McNew]

funny guy, thats not your pic, it's Marketa Belonoha, a well known sfot-core tcheck model, i can give you links to 1000's of her pics. Nice try buddy

Hold on ... waitaminit ...

My wife IS a model ... she
does travel for her work ...

I'll Tcheck her passport tonight
-- see if she's been traveling to
any Tcheck destinations.

Yeah.

 

[Sanders McNew]

You're wrong. Look at the poster's flickr. It's quite clearly his wife.

Ian

No need to go to Flickr. Yesterday,
I posted another (clothed) photo of
Melanie I took last weekend with the
Leica II and a 3.5cm Elmar:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=615883&postcount=1

Of course, it could be that Marketa
Belonohani was visiting me in New
York this past weekend, and this is
really her and not my wife.

It could be.

Sanders