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Next morning Lisl covers film, lenses and people. She's presently using Kodak film. She hardly ever uses a polarizer but sometimes adds an 81A filter to warm up a scene. She now carries Canon cameras particularly enjoying Canon's light weight auto focus. "The Nikon auto focus 80-200 zoom was heavy, a bazooka -- I couldn't carry that around for ten hours." She favors wide angle lenses and moves in close partly to get rid of extraneous stuff like telegraph poles and fences and isolate her subject, but mostly because she "sees wide angle. It's my DNA." She's very comfortable around people but warns her students that "the intense stare of a stranger can put us off. We're not used to such intimacy even from our intimates." |
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Her tongue-in-cheek advice to diffident students fearful of foreign countries: "Start locally with Americans in small towns. They don't think you're coming in to rip off the china they got at the Exxon station." But whatever you do, take pictures. Photography, she claims, can make you more aware of your style, who you are yourself and can make you a better doctor, lawyer, banker or whatever you do. Next we're off on this workshop to Madrid. We wander
around, crouching to get a shot in each category for our second
critique that requires a portrait, detail, still life, landscape,
architecture, abstract. A local lab "Visions" offers processing
in 24 hours -- we don't have an excuse.
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