Vivian Maier - more pics

1. The background clutter during the slideshow helps nothing.
2. I just realized that I find photos shot from waist level eminently more enjoyable than ones shot from face level
3. I really want a modern digital TLR camera
 
Agree 100% -- the background photos are really distracting.

I'm going to look for a remote shutter release for me EPL5. Add that with the flippy LCD, and that's as close as I can get :)
 
1. The background clutter during the slideshow helps nothing.
2. I just realized that I find photos shot from waist level eminently more enjoyable than ones shot from face level
3. I really want a modern digital TLR camera

Any Nex ought to do. Or the OMD, EPL5, or XZ2. After a youth spent with TLRs (not exclusively, but lots), I'll never forget the first time I picked up a Nex 5 a couple of years ago. Just felt like home. And then Olympus did the same with the EPL3 and I could use all of my m43 lenses and it was all over.

Those ARE the modern TLRs.

-Ray
 
Ray, I understand your point and I used my OMD like that a few times. But I think people still see you pointing a digital camera at them.

I suppose I should just quit wishing and hoping for things that will never come.
 
Ray, I understand your point and I used my OMD like that a few times. But I think people still see you pointing a digital camera at them.

I suppose I should just quit wishing and hoping for things that will never come.

Well, whether the technology is old or new, you're still pointing a camera at them. I think that was likely seen as more of an intrusion in those days just because it was a less common event. I thought the point was just the perspective of shooting from waist or belly level and composing by looking DOWN into the finder rather than looking forward at eye level. Which is what I get off on. Cartier Bresson famously disliked the TLR, suggesting that if god had intended us to see from that angle, we'd all have eyes in our belly rather than our heads. I break with the old guy there - I just plain like the perspective. And for some reason I like the shooting experience a lot too. As I do with the Fuji OVF at eye level. I guess I like just about all ways of shooting photos that there are...

-Ray
 
What a wonderful set of photos. I like the ones released with the first book better. But these are still great. My favorites are the environmental portraits and portraits. She sure had great eyes. I wonder what her "keeper" rate would have been had she actually developed her own photos.
 
1. The background clutter during the slideshow helps nothing.
2. I just realized that I find photos shot from waist level eminently more enjoyable than ones shot from face level
3. I really want a modern digital TLR camera

Get the VF2 and you have a modern tlr. That was one of the things i loved about the VF2 compared to a flippy omd lcd screen.
 
1. The background clutter during the slideshow helps nothing.
2. I just realized that I find photos shot from waist level eminently more enjoyable than ones shot from face level
3. I really want a modern digital TLR camera

I find I really like shooting waist level with the E-PL5 with the LCD flipped horizontal. If I put it on a neck strap it would probably be even better. It's a lot more stable than the arms out position.

To get back on topic, however, the more I see the work of Maier the more I like it. What a treat to have just stumbled on to a lifetime's work of a fine photographer.
 
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