Ralph Gibson talks about the Leica Monochrom

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Couple of very interesting videos on this site:

The master of shadows Ralph Gibson talks about his experiences with the Leica M Monochrom | ISO 1200 Magazine | Photography Video blog for photographers

 

Makes you want to go out and shoot B&W for the rest of your life ...

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Although the two video clips seem essentially Leica-sponsored, they are interesting in several respects and reflect some aspects of Gibson's approach to photography. In the first one he speaks about having always been interested in "pictures of nothing" and of his photography being about the content rather than the subject. I was also interested that he said that 99% of his photos are in the vertical format, which struck home because when I was shooting film with an M6 over half of my shots were vertical — after switching to digital, I found myself to shoot almost exclusively horizontally (in the "portrait orientation") simple because you see a larger picture on the monitor when post processing. The interesting thing in the second video is the brief discussion of Gibson's photography being like music. Very interesting.

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