What do you like to shoot the most?

[michael_kastner]

Wait a minute! You don't have to say what you used to love here a few years ago -- and/or what you might get into someday in the future -- how about just today? I'm getting into cemeteries and graveyards (no, that's not supposed to be a pun). Especially those from previous centuries. Often my 21mm is the only way to fly (I think). But sometimes the 90 or even a 135 might be better for a certain detail. Lots of photographic variety here. And all the reason for me to get back into more black and white.

 

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What are you up to lately? Hope you don't mind me asking. Mike

[bas1]

For me that's simple. My kids, my kids and my kids. Reason is two fold

though. With 3 small childeren it is difficult to make time to shoot

other topics. I also love to photograph childeren while they are

playing. They have realy got used to me shooting so they are very

comfortable with. It is very very difficult to do though with a Leica,

but when you get a good one it is a joy.

[alfie wang]

My princess Sarah. She is an animated chick and provides a most

wonderful subject for modelling.

 

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sincerely,

Alfie

[haim_toeg]

I am on an ongoing project of documenting my life and the various

stages my life has taken--the variety of locations I lived in and

activities I engage in.

[bobtodrick]

Check my website and see for yourself: www.bodyscapes.ca Some of

the stuff in the Goddess series was shot with a Rollei TLR, but most

of it was with my IIIG.

[david11]

I prefer to photograph people, although I shoot many different

subjects. I most often point the Leica at friends and family - my two

grandchildren, especially. I use all my lenses from 21-90mm to

photograph my subjects, although lately I seem to be using the 75

Summilux and 50 Summicron for most of the exposures. For the

majority of my work I am using the following films: Fuji ACROS, Kodak

B&W Portra 400, Fuji Sensia, Kodak Ektachrome 100 SW, and Agfa

Portrait 160.

[steve_belden]

Currently I am working on documenting fundamentalist Christian

revivals in the New England and Quebec.

 

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Steve

[raymond_tai]

I travel around Asia as part of my job (not as a photographer) and

do my best to get up really early and shoot a roll or two of either

TMX or KR64 depending on location. I am interested in how

ordinary people live and do my best to document my travels.

Since the primary purpose of these travels is not photography I

can't take too much gear so I prefer one body, a 50mm

Summilux and 28mm Elmarit. If I really need to travel light then

the 35mm Summicron will cover for both.

[jay_.]

This year I photographed extensively in Italy on two separate

jaunts. The first covered the architecture of Rome and the other

involved Tuscan scenics. For the next several months I will be

shooting the migratory birds in S Florida.

[richard_ilomaki]

Michael:

 

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Right now, I am preparing a 2002 calendar featuring some of the very

colourful "Eating Houses" and coffee shops ( Kopitiams) here in

Singapore. I use the M6 with a 50mm Summi and a Nikon FM with a

Russian MIR 35 f2. Film: Konica Centuria 400 and Provia F, as well as

Kodak T400 CN.

 

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I scan them, then make up the calendar in PowerPoint, then print them

(about 20)on an old Ink Jet printer and give them to friends as

seasonal gifts.

 

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When I lived in a part of the world that has 4 seasons, I did a

series of 12 shots of the chair in a cemetary-one each month. It was

great fun with all the different seasonal settings: chair & stones

completely covered in snow as well as surrounded by brilliant gold &

red leaves in Autumn. (Maybe when I get back I'll do it again on one

disposable camera, kept in teh 'fridge for a year.)

 

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Thanks for asking.

 

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Auf WiderSehen (sp?)

[douglas_herr3]

wildlife and my kids (and their friends) make up 100% of my

photography:

 

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http://www.wildlightphoto.com

 

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http://home.earthlink.net/~telyt/

[peter_hughes1]

Women. What else is there?<p><a

href="http://www.ravenvision.com/peterhughes.htm">Peter Hughes

Photography</a>

[ralph_barker]

Graveyards are very interesting. I just acquired a well-used 50mm

Summicron DR, and shot the initial test roll at a local "resting place".

 

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For similarly restful subjects, products and still lifes are good. For

middle-of-the-road subjects, landscapes are tough to beat. And then,

there are always models for more lively subjects. (grin) Various

samples of all of them are on my site:

 

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http://www.rbarkerphoto.com

 

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A warning, however. There's non-Leica work there too. ;-)

[yip2]

I regard pics as a chronicle of my life, times and beauty.

That means pretty much everything.

It is really true that until one takes a pic of something, one does

not truly see. I am amazed that each time i look at the same

photo I see something new, with a loupe, the many details/info

are staggering.

But the photos that are most treasured are mostly family.

I do wish the M6ttl has a self timer though, I seem to lack pics of

myself !

[Aoresteen]

Just returned from a trip to Naples and Sicily. Landscapes & people.

 

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Spending much more time with my IIIg & IIIf shooting people.

[ray_moth]

People. I find this the most rewarding of subjects, especially when

everything goes right and I'm able to present someone with a pleasing

portrait of him/herself.

 

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I'm also engaged in a self-imposed "projest" to get interesting shots

on my way to work each morning; however, many of them turn out to be

failures. Jakarta is not the most photogenic of cities but the street

scenes are often interesting and that means ... people!

[oliver_s.]

Munich, the city I currently live in, was the favorite city of Hitler.

Documenting how we deal with the concrete abominations the Nazi

architects left us, as a form of how we try to come to terms with the

past, is a long-term project about to hatch. It also includes a

photographic documentation of how we ignore the Nazi past of many

'innocent' structures. (Who knows that Hitler's party held its first

meetings in the famous Hofbräuhaus?)

[oliver_s.]

Needless to say, I don't really "like" to shoot that. To relax, I

either torture a piano or go out photographing birds.

[nesrani]

"Who knows that Hitler's party held its first meetings in the famous

Hofbräuhaus?"

 

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Everybody, I thought. Wouldn't Nuremberg be better suited to that

kind of project? But I think all of Bavaria is full of that sort of

vibe. I remember my old landlady saying to me "What this country

really needs is another Voelkisher Beobachter" - in 1986!

 

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'zifixnochmal!

[alfie wang]

Currently I am working on two photojournalist projects in addition to

photographing the Princess:

 

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1) A study of Philadelphia trash and scraps which are left on the

side of the streets. I remember myself saying that I learned a lot

just by photographing the culture's offal especially in the choices

of what people want to discard.

 

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2) A 1.5 year project in collaboration with my Sarah about the

casual/religious interweaving of personal belief/public thoughts for

the Philadelphia 3rd singles ward for the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-Day Saints. Doing a study of our culture and heritage in

candid and decisive moments caught on film for the rest of their own

lives.

 

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I hope to pursue a lot more photography. For practice, I shoot a lot

of film daily for my Philadelphia diary which is going to be a la

Eugene Richards et W. Eugene Smith.

 

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Leicafully,

Alfie

[philip_woodcock]

People, I love to photograph people (mainly because I never could

figure how to draw). I love street performers too, I seem to

photograph a hell of a lot of them.

 

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p.s. I also agree with Peter... women - what Leica's were made for!

[roberto_watson_garc_a]

Your question makes me think Michael, there´s been time without a

solid proyect in my mind, just hang my camera to my waist and use it

when I feel I need to, lately I have seen turist (Mazatlan is a place

where turist beging to came early in Nov every year), now that USA is

in war (here turist are mainly from USA and Canada), they look more

like refugies that turist, (Mazatlan is cheaper to live than any

other place in USA, even as a turist), now you don´t see them much in

restaurants or nigth clubs but in supermarkets and gas stations, it

seem interesting to document, for sure I´ll beging doing it. This is

not mean to be a political post or any thing to ofend no body, just

what came through my mind.

[Rob F.]

I like to put together slide shows that take my viewers to places

they might not otherwise see, like area in Colorado accessible only

by jeep. I have 2 shows on Colorado. I also like finding beauty in

ordinary things otherwise taken for granted, like areas of town that

not everyone sees. Industrial areas, or older parts of town.

 

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I use several projectors controlled by a programmable sequencer.

Some of the slides are projected out wide to 4x8 feet, while others

are the standard format. The wide-screen images give a "you are

there" effect. I shot a lot of stuff about the barges and barge

hands on the Missouri river, which I will assemble into a show. I

have another one about Missouri's springs and streams. 700 images of

Mexico are waiting to be edited into a show.

 

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It's like IMAX, Cinerama, and Panavision 70 reduced to living-room

size. When I was 14, I had already decided to this this when I was a

grown-up.

 

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I shoot and print black-and white images of architecture, nature, and

my wife. I plan to have a ball with all this when I retire!