Tag: Claire Yaffa

Ladies Who Photograph

Link: Claire Yaffa: Thoughts of Photographers for Poets and Dreamers – Ladies Who Photograph, Chapter 11 « The Leica Camera

The ladies examined here who photographed were pioneers. They were not accepted into the masculine monopoly of photography. These women photographers, even if they were exceptional in their abilities and talent, worked hard to crack open the small light of opportunity, which widened for them with each photograph they were able to create

November 29, 2012
Claire Yaffa: I Dreamed a Dream

leica:

I do like the 50mm lens because it allows me to focus on more of the subject than a wide-angle 28mm, but I also like the 35mm because it gives me more information than the 50mm. It all depends what I am photographing. When I worked for the New York Times, I used the 35mm more and the 50mm for a closer cropped image. I also used the 28mm then. I used to crop my images, and now, I try to do this in the camera so that when I am developing or downloading the images I do not have to make these adjustments in Photoshop or in the darkroom.

September 23, 2011