Love your additional shots, Bernhard! Your last one is my favorite. Amusing that you shot it wide and in B&W, whereas I shot it tight for the Leica colours...:-)
Education is my favorite part from these meetings, LX, so on the contrary thank you for educating me.
philber wrote:
Your last one is my favorite. Amusing that you shot it wide and in B&W, whereas I shot it tight for the Leica colours...:-)
Thank you very much. Several persons said they liked the BW version, although I tried harder on the colour versions :-))
For your 2 shots of the strange bassin in the ground, I prefer the 21mm shot - it has stronger geometry, which is something I like. With wide angles, this is also easier to achieve. Which is why I sometimes (or even often) do not really know what to do with my 35mm F2 lens. It is a focal lenght that is neither really wide nor a normal perspective. I'd probably prefer a 28mm Zeiss to the 35mm, but I do not have one :-)
Than I got you right, Philippe, I'm just not very familiar with potential implicit forum rules -- thus my caution.
As for the two "bath pit" alternatives: I prefer the 35mm shot: It isolates the object from the environment and you found the perfect perspective (your educational contribution ). The 21mm shot adds the mood and tells a story which the first one avoids.
@Philippe: From the two bath pit pictures I agree with LurkerX and much prefer the 35mm version. The 21mm version adds too much irrelevant and unwanted attention gathering information from the lower wall-parts for example. The crop of the 35mm version is also nearly perfect: the bath pit fits very nicely in the image format.
@Bernhard: Very good images again! Only the first image did not "talk" to me. - And I wish I had or even own a L-bracket, too!
Ulff wrote:
@Bernhard: Very good images again! Only the first image did not "talk" to me. - And I wish I had or even own a L-bracket, too!
Thank you Ulff - and you are right. The first one does not at all fit into this series which is more about morbid architecture and geometry. I should have left it out...
L- bracket is the best thing for any tripod based work. Of course only if you change orientation (from horizontal to vertical). I do and so I got a ballhead with quick release (lever) plus that L- bracket. It adds a little bit of weight to the camera, but insures that the camera is always on top of the tripod and doesn't hang to the side. With quick release it takes roughly 3-4s to change orientation and it is rock solid.
Hello Boris,
the first and even more the third look quite nice to me, however the Leica saturates the colour a lot, to the point where it is a bit much for my taste, because the original mood is changed. Maybe this is just a different taste, but I'd think that less might be actually more sometimes. Like in the second scene/ photo, which I remember to have looked quite different, colourwise.
Ulff wrote:
@Philippe: From the two bath pit pictures I agree with LurkerX and much prefer the 35mm version. The 21mm version adds too much irrelevant and unwanted attention gathering information from the lower wall-parts for example. The crop of the 35mm version is also nearly perfect: the bath pit fits very nicely in the image format.
Agreed! The first shot is perfect, the second one has a strip of stuff which doesn't add anything. Tight cropping is an art.
Some more, two of which I found in a well-hidden basement. Unfortunately, as hard as it is, I managed to miss focus on the first one, even with the 21 Distagon. I will have to redo it at some point:
Hi Carsten - I like the second one, nice geometry, nice colour. Actually I forgot to shoot the TV - wanted to do it, but something got in the way and I left...
Boris, great set of Bobusian quality! Each one an inspiration, even when it is not my personal taste.
Lurker, your headlamp idea is illuminating! And you know how to use it, too!
Carsten, I really like your last image. Great light and composition.
Here are my last 6 images from our meeting. These are also my favorites. Getting 6 good images out of one day of shooting is in my opinion not bad at all.
). The 21mm shot adds the mood and tells a story which the first one avoids.
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