From: Leyba, Matt (MLeyba@Denverpost.com)
Date: 08/29/02-04:26:28 PM Z
Baby heads are nasty little loose rocks approx 6-8" found often in large
packs. They make tripod contact a challenge and butt contact easy.
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Mateo Leyba
> ----------
> From: Steve Bell
> Reply To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:44 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: quick draw large format
>
> I'm sorry, can you clarify what exactly a river strewn with baby heads is?
>
> i'm a little frightened as to what is going on in colorado.
>
> steve
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Leyba, Matt <MLeyba@Denverpost.com>
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> > Date: 8/29/2002 4:43:42 PM
> > Subject: RE: quick draw large format
> >
> > I agree with Carl, with practice it's pretty easy to be quick setting up
> and
>
> > shooting a frame. My typical situation, hiking around the Colorado hills
> is
>
> > from the time I pull the pack off my back to putting it back on is
>
> > lessminutes. The big time killer for me is if I have to extend the Reis
>
> > legs. Of course during the 30 minutes of really nice morning or eve
> light, I
>
> > shoulder the camera and run around shooting as much as I can in this
> small
>
> > window of time. Scouting reports go a long way at these times. I must
> admit
>
> > though, there are situations that can slow you down pretty good. A good
>
> > steady rain/snow or a river strewn with baby heads have been known to
> beat
>
> > me up pretty good. In the urban setting, it's people coming up asking
> about
>
> > that neat old camera your using, especially the guy who "used to do that
>
> > too" ten years ago.
>
> >
>
> > ----------------------------
>
> > Mateo Leyba
>
> >
>
> > > ----------
>
> > > From: shannon stoney
>
> > > Reply To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:34 PM
>
> > > To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>
> > > Subject: quick draw large format
>
> > >
>
> > > CArl wrote:
>
> > >
>
> > > > When I teach view camera
>
> > > >technique I tell students that you should be able to see something
> from
>
> > > the
>
> > > >car at 70 mph (or while hiking with your gear in a packback) and be
>
> > > pulling
>
> > > >the darkslide within ninety seconds. They usually think I'm kidding,
> but
>
> > > I'm
>
> > > >not. (How do you get to use a view camera fast? Same way you get to
>
> > > Carnegie
>
> > > >Hall--practice!)
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> > >
>
> > >
>
> > > We're going to start calling you Quick Draw Carl. Seriously, how do
>
> > > you do this? It takes me ten minutes minimum to get the camera out
>
> > > of the backpack, put it on the tripod, open it, etc, etc. Maybe you
>
> > > mean your camera is already on the tripod over your shoulder and your
>
> > > other stuff is in the backpack?
>
> > >
>
> > > --shannon
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
>
> > > --
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> > >
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> > >
>
>
> --- Steve Bell
> --- Veracity000@earthlink.net
> --- http://www.unbeknownst.org/~insurrective /
> http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/insurrection
> --- In fact, rock, rather than being an example of how freedom can be
> achieved within the capitalist structure, is
> an example of how capitalism can, almost without a conscious effort,
> deceive those whom it oppresses...So
> effective has the rock industry been in encouraging the spirit of
> optimistic youth take-over that rock's truly
> hard political edge, it's constant exploration of the varieties of
> youthful frustration, has been ignored
> and softened. --Michael Lydon
>
>
>
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