Fotografia Estemporanea Lago di Bracciano
Here are Twenty pictures taken in a period of 34 hours for the Fotografia Estemporanea Lago di Bracciano event this past weekend.
The best thing about the event was that it forced me to go out and shoot and then choose and submit a selection of pictures with little time for hesitating or dallying about.
The worst thing about the event is that you can’t see my best photograph because I lost it a couple of minutes after taking it. The photo was of a man with crazy white hair walking quickly in strong afternoon light and shadow.
Losing the photograph was a lesson on the risk of editing pictures in the camera (I photographed in JPEG format and edited in-camera to meet the tight deadline) and an illustration of a serious software design flaw in Leica’s M8 previously related by Mike Johnston:
“Leica did a nice job with the digital controls, with one exception, which is that once you’re in delete mode, you can switch files—pictures—in delete mode and delete the new one with a single click. This led to the first time I’ve ever deleted by mistake a picture I actually wanted to keep.”
The worrying thing is that I am certain that I selected ‘Protect’ rather than ‘Delete’ when marking the photograph. No matter—I will not be using those two buttons on this camera again!1
PhotoRescue and Lexar Image Rescue were used in attempts to recover the lost picture but neither was successful and the photo of the man was not found.
Alas, maybe it was also a lesson in not holding onto things too dearly.
Onwards.
1 I will discuss all of this and more in a series of thoughts on the Leica M8 which will be published here soon.
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