The decisive moment with the Leica M3

I love it when someone steels a photograph of mine. Example: I had submitted some slides to the chamber of commerce of a city on spec. If you like one, it's a hundred bucks. If you don't, just return them. A few months later I saw an Arizona Department of Tourism poster advertising that city with a photo taken from one of the slides. So instead of getting $100 I got $400 (I forget what the attorney got).
 
antiquark said:
I agree, if the picture is good enough, there's no way a watermark could ruin it. :)

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This had me in tears laughing!
 
yanidel said:
Take a M8/9 in zone focus. Put it on aperture priority, Auto-ISO and it is the fastest camera in the West. If you shoot wide open, it will be slower but a DSLR might also focus where you did not want to.
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But the point was about an MP, not an M8/9. Though I enjoy using my M3 (with external meter) and MP I would agree that a fully manual camera is not particularly quick.

Does zone focusing at, say, f/1.2 really produce a high percentage of 'keepers'?
 
I think that some members here must remember that some of us older folks are just not very good or comfortable with the various types of photo editing software. I very rarely post any pictures here on RFF and the few I did post were scanned directly from film to a cd by the film developer, and then copied to RFF.

Being a member of Nikoncafe, I am familiar with NikkorAIS because in the past he had posted a thread on the Nikkor 28/2 AIS lens, a lens that I was lusting for (and still am, LOL.) NikkorAIS also doesn't seem to post any pictures there, but he does ask questions and offers advice on the various Nikon AIS lenses.

It would be nice if this thread didn't degenerate into something of the Pnet of old. I would like to welcome NikkorAIS to the rangefinder forum and, as he gets better with using the photoediting program, would enjoy looking at his future pictures and contributions.

Best Wishes to all.
 
Photos published on the internet are being stolen left right and center. It's been going on now for a number of years and the victims usually end up spending a lot of time (and feeling some stress) dealing with it.

Why deal with that **** when you could be out taking more pictures and getting on with life?

The images stolen often end up on private and even commercial internet sites in foreign countries, such as Turkey and Russia.

Without copyright registration in your home country or in the usa, all you can do is watermark or simply not publish. The OP chose to watermark in such a way that a thief would forget about taking his pics.

The OP simply wished to share some images with us and it's really not too difficult to see his images while blocking out the watermark at the same time. No biggie. We're all photographers here.

I recommend the OP take a different approach and that would be to bulk register his unpublished images with one registration at the US library of congress. Do this once a year and then publish those images afterwards, with (or without) an obtrusive watermark.
 
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Nikkor AIS said:
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MUCH better without the watermark, and I like the pictures ! Where does the "halo" around the women's head come from ? Light source in the ceiling ?

When I click on the picture, I get on a site with a lot more nice pictures. Are they all yours ?

Regards,

Stefan.
 
Thanks for the kind words. I like the photos better without the watermarks as well:bang:. The glow comes from a sunlight shaft from the ceiling as well as the infamous glow of the Leica 35 1.4 Summilux. And yes, if the photos are rogaltacdesign, then yes that's me. I've got a photo library from the last 20 years or so that will be up loaded in the near future.

I would like to give a special thanks to Catherine (Kat;)) for all her help and support in making the transition into cyberspace. I couldn't have done it without her. Leica M6 50 1.0


I love the interpretation of the decisive moment being a culmination of all the photo elements coming together, now that I've taken care of the ridiculous watermark. I hope we can keep the discussion on point.

Gregory
 
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Gregory- Thankyou for posting these without the overt watermarks.

They are very pleasing to the eye, and a joy to look at.

A lot has been posted on the overt watermarks, and personally I just could not see past them to enjoy the actual images.
 
The "fine tuning" of French always a good thing

The "fine tuning" of French always a good thing

I read this quote with great interest, and the "fine tuning" of French always shines light into a realm that is not my strength, to say the least. So again much appreciation.

yanidel said:
Photos on the run obviously is a literal translation that works but simplifies a bit too much the complexity of the term. In French "à la sauvette" derives from the verb "sauver" or "se sauver" which in English can be translated to either "to flee" or "to save". So there is a concept of self protection in "à la sauvette", this is why I personnally get a feeling of it meaning "Quick stolen images", that is images taken quickly without the subject being aware.
Of course, I am not a French teacher ;) so I could be wrong.
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When I tripped over the ( a la sauvette ) phrase several years ago and explanation in the quoted reference books in my posting.
It really hit me again how easy it is to get peoples heads twisted in the wrong direction...as the choice of words in english was so far away from the original actual "text"! So for years people have been chasing to reproduce...something that was never the "end product" of the original artist. Gave me a head ache.

Also HCB's passion for the geometrical structure inside the "frame" of the 35 viewfinder was painful. His discussion of never wanting his original images to ever be cropped from the full frame of the negative shot ,was also a wake up call.

So in the end...what found was so far from what I had expected to find...in terms of creative compositional process. If mapped the mileage between fact and fiction was very large.

Thanks again for the French lessons. Best Regards
 
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