Hi all,

I've just started a (little) projectabout my city, Milan, known in Italy as a busy, frenzy, nearly hysterical heart of the country. The title says it all. All I've got now are some frontier proofs which I'm going to reprint by myself (i.e. the tones are a bit off). But I was curious to know your comments about it (just two as of now). Hope you'll aprreciate it.

-- Antonio Carrus (Milan, Italy) (antoniocarrus@yahoo.it), March 04, 2002

Answers

I like the style, indicates movement and I like the position (for some reason if I try that the pictures turn out not as I'd expected).

At first I found the person left on the picture disturbing, but on the other had it shows that the street is crowded.

Reinier

-- ReinierV (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), March 04, 2002.

I like your style, in an "artsy" sort of way. However, I think that if you do the whole series with that same effect it could maybe be a bit boring, IMO.

Nice work!

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), March 04, 2002.

I love them both! And I'd be interested in technique: speed -- 1/8? 1/4? Type of film? Aperture? You are capturing the imagery nicely. I do agree w/ Jack that a dozen of these might become repetitious, but perhaps not--that'll be up to your creativity! Thanks for sharing--

-- Patrick (pg@patrickgarner.com), March 04, 2002.

Hot stuff. Pity it's in BW, but can't have everything!

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), March 04, 2002.

Kinda liked them.i did some snaps last Sunday,like everybody else, in Toronto'main street,Yonge,celebrating Canadas Olympic Gold win in Hockey.Also used slow speed but with flash and color.Like the feeling of movement.Want to try "panoramas"but with normal camera and lens. Rating 3.

-- jason gold (leeu72@hotmail.com), March 04, 2002.

Hi, Antonio:

Ditto Jack and Patrick: good images but though interesting as a basic approach you are in need to develop different ways to convey movement/activity than plainly let the motion show in your photos as blurred shapes. Interesting challenge, indeed ! !

Good luck to it, Antonio, and best regards.

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), March 04, 2002.

I like your images, but i think that you should've added some more before posting. I also think that you don't need to use camera motion blur to convey a busy city. Try using some other techniques with various perspectives.

-- Kristian (Ieicashot@hotmail.com), March 04, 2002.

Bravo, so far, so good. I agree though with above points that you may need to expand out on this theme to fill an entire project of these type images but the first two that you post are very nice. I especially like the gentlemen pointing in the first image and the fellow all the way to the right appears to be drawn to whatever the first fellow is pointing at. Seems like a nice link between two totally seperate subjects.

Keep up the good work. Show us some more as you move along.

Be well, JT

-- JT (fotoopp@aol.com), March 04, 2002.

Antonio, I'm new to this forum ( and just joined LHSA ), but not new to M photography ( 25 years ). Your images are wonderful explorations of risk taking ( you suspect, but never quite know what you'll get at slower shutter speeds). Some comments by others are interesting in that they urge further exploration of the theme. A related note tied to recent Leica technical developments: The new M7 coupled with a Metz 54 MZ-3 flash and proper module is suppose to allow 2nd shutter operation. I've used this technique with SLRs for years to get amazing effects. Shooting at 1/4 sec. or less with fast lenses wide open on manual exposure, and slightly panning with the main subject gives you dragged, energetic backgrounds with the main foreground subject more clearly defined ( no distorted faces for example ). For this reason alone I've put in my order for a M7. Can't wait to use Leica glass with this technique. Once I learn how to post photos I'll send out some images. Thanks for sharing your work. --Marc Williams

-- Marc Williams (mwilliams111313MI@comcast.net), March 05, 2002.