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I recently fulfilled a long time desire to own a Leica M series body. I found a rather reasonable deal (relatively - nothing Leica is a deal) on a just serviced M2 recently and have shooting with it on- and off.
Today, I was in one of my usual haunts - a working rail repair yard near my home - to check a just serviced lens for that camera. At one point, I realized that I was approaching everything I was shooting as if I were using 5x4 - Very static compositions designed to emphasize pattern and structure.
While this is fine, I occurs to me that this may not be the path to finding my inner Henri Cartier-Bresson. The one place where small format excels is shooting dynamically and in the moment. Years of 5x4 shooting have elminated this from my vocabulary. I need to rethink my approach to small format.
So what say ye? How have different formats you've shot intruded, enhanced, or complicated each other?
Today, I was in one of my usual haunts - a working rail repair yard near my home - to check a just serviced lens for that camera. At one point, I realized that I was approaching everything I was shooting as if I were using 5x4 - Very static compositions designed to emphasize pattern and structure.
While this is fine, I occurs to me that this may not be the path to finding my inner Henri Cartier-Bresson. The one place where small format excels is shooting dynamically and in the moment. Years of 5x4 shooting have elminated this from my vocabulary. I need to rethink my approach to small format.
So what say ye? How have different formats you've shot intruded, enhanced, or complicated each other?
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