Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
p.1500 #1Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Thank you guys for comments and like.
Beautiful film images Guys.
Gary, yeh, I heard icefield parkway is the best view drive in the world. I agree. It is an unforgettable experience, I am sure I will be back.
50lux ASPH Single shot
Beautiful film images Guys.
Gary, yeh, I heard icefield parkway is the best view drive in the world. I agree. It is an unforgettable experience, I am sure I will be back.
50lux ASPH Single shot
Sep 03, 2017 at 12:50 AM
p.1500 #2Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
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Sep 03, 2017 at 06:46 AM
p.1500 #3Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Andrew Gough wrote:
Leica SL 24-90mm @90mm
Andrew, I like the image but not watermark since it interfere with the image to much.
Leica SL 24-90mm @90mm
Andrew, I like the image but not watermark since it interfere with the image to much.
Sep 03, 2017 at 08:27 AM
p.1500 #5Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
zhangyue wrote:
Thank you guys for comments and like.
Beautiful film images Guys.
Gary, yeh, I heard icefield parkway is the best view drive in the world. I agree. It is an unforgettable experience, I am sure I will be back.
50lux ASPH Single shot
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4439/36766488486_e502dead52_h.jpg
This one is awesome, Zhangyue!!
Thank you guys for comments and like.
Beautiful film images Guys.
Gary, yeh, I heard icefield parkway is the best view drive in the world. I agree. It is an unforgettable experience, I am sure I will be back.
50lux ASPH Single shot
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4439/36766488486_e502dead52_h.jpg
This one is awesome, Zhangyue!!
Sep 03, 2017 at 08:56 AM
p.1500 #6Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
joakim wrote:
MM-246 and .95 Noctilux
Superb tonality Joakim! The noctilux rendering is really magical here. You're using it expertly
MM-246 and .95 Noctilux
Superb tonality Joakim! The noctilux rendering is really magical here. You're using it expertly
Sep 03, 2017 at 09:19 AM
p.1500 #7Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
airfrogusmc wrote:
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Great work Allen! Somehow the last shot appeals to me the most,.
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Great work Allen! Somehow the last shot appeals to me the most,.
Sep 03, 2017 at 09:20 AM
p.1500 #8Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Thanks Edward.
A few more. Still getting used to the M 10.
A few more. Still getting used to the M 10.
Sep 03, 2017 at 09:38 AM
p.1500 #9Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Here are a few scenic shots from our Alaska trip - coming into Glacier Bay.
Leica T with 55-135 and 18-56.
Leica T with 55-135 and 18-56.
Sep 03, 2017 at 11:06 AM
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p.1500 #10Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
today my boy won 2place at 500m running,all jpeg from camera
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Sep 03, 2017 at 11:34 AM
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p.1500 #11Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
edwardkaraa wrote:
Superb tonality Joakim! The noctilux rendering is really magical here. You're using it expertly
Thank you Edward!
joakim wrote
MM-246 and .95 NoctiluxThank you Edward!
Sep 03, 2017 at 12:11 PM
p.1500 #12Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
These 1965 pictures are in Turkanaland in north-west Kenya, probably near Lodwar, at that time a very small town. I was driving alone, back from Lake Turkana, in a VW Beetle, not on roads, but on tracks in the scrub desert, until I reached the Uganda trunk road from Nairobi to Kampala. The distance from Lake Turkana to Kampala is shown on the web as 670 km and 13 hours. As I recall, it took me 12 hours and I got back home at midnight, driving as fast on the Uganda highway as the Beetle would go and crashing into a dog that raced across the unlit road a half an hour before reaching Kampala.
The Turkana, a Nilotic people with language and culture that have similarities to the Maasai and Samburu in Kenya and the Karamojong in Uganda were, and still are, nomadic pastoralists, with cattle at the core of their culture. They remain one of the poorest ethnic groups in Kenya. I recall a friend, Ford Foundation representative for East Africa, who I was meeting at Lake Turkana telling me that the lake was teeming with fish, and that the Turkana, often near starvation, could vastly improve their lives if they fished and ate fish.
In a web search, I just found the the Norwegian aid agency invested US$22 million in the late-1970s in a huge fish-freezing plant aimed at the Turkana exploiting the lake’s fish stocks; it failed soon after startup. The Turkana, like other semi-nomadic pastoralists live off the milk, blood and meat of their herds. Also, the cost of electricity to operate the giant freezers and the demand for clean water in the desert environment were too high.
As for the pictures themselves, these are low contrast negatives shot on Adox KB17 (Leica IIIc and Summarit 50) and have a muddy tonal palette that I was never able to print well in the darkroom. I digitalized them recently and got the same muddy tonalities, which I processed in a variety of ways: some of the versions I made dark, in one effort bringing out a brooding black cloud; but that took away from the desolation of the huts and people. Finally, I went for the high-key look here, which best reflects what I saw. However, I didn’t post these pictures until I saw a similar tonality in a photograph in David Vestal’s The Craft Photography, showing tractors in what looks like Iowa farmland (page 328). I found I could download this book free from archive.otg.
Please let me have your reaction to these pictures, but don’t click “Like” if you only like the back story — I’d like to know the reactions to the pictures themselves.
Leica IIIc | Summitar 50 | Adox KB17
Leica IIIc | Summitar 50 | Adox KB17
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Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine
The Turkana, a Nilotic people with language and culture that have similarities to the Maasai and Samburu in Kenya and the Karamojong in Uganda were, and still are, nomadic pastoralists, with cattle at the core of their culture. They remain one of the poorest ethnic groups in Kenya. I recall a friend, Ford Foundation representative for East Africa, who I was meeting at Lake Turkana telling me that the lake was teeming with fish, and that the Turkana, often near starvation, could vastly improve their lives if they fished and ate fish.
In a web search, I just found the the Norwegian aid agency invested US$22 million in the late-1970s in a huge fish-freezing plant aimed at the Turkana exploiting the lake’s fish stocks; it failed soon after startup. The Turkana, like other semi-nomadic pastoralists live off the milk, blood and meat of their herds. Also, the cost of electricity to operate the giant freezers and the demand for clean water in the desert environment were too high.
As for the pictures themselves, these are low contrast negatives shot on Adox KB17 (Leica IIIc and Summarit 50) and have a muddy tonal palette that I was never able to print well in the darkroom. I digitalized them recently and got the same muddy tonalities, which I processed in a variety of ways: some of the versions I made dark, in one effort bringing out a brooding black cloud; but that took away from the desolation of the huts and people. Finally, I went for the high-key look here, which best reflects what I saw. However, I didn’t post these pictures until I saw a similar tonality in a photograph in David Vestal’s The Craft Photography, showing tractors in what looks like Iowa farmland (page 328). I found I could download this book free from archive.otg.
Please let me have your reaction to these pictures, but don’t click “Like” if you only like the back story — I’d like to know the reactions to the pictures themselves.
Leica IIIc | Summitar 50 | Adox KB17
Leica IIIc | Summitar 50 | Adox KB17
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Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine
Sep 03, 2017 at 12:45 PM
p.1500 #13Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Edward, Thanks again for spending time comments. I appreciate.
Great images guys and keep them coming.
one more 21 SEM, Lake Louise
Great images guys and keep them coming.
one more 21 SEM, Lake Louise
Sep 03, 2017 at 01:22 PM
p.1500 #14Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Last year I was in the Omo valley in Southern Ethiopia photographing the very diverse tribes down there - there is multi-ethnicity still but this will be subsumed into a greater Ethiopian identity within a few years because of habitat changing infrastructural works, most notably the damming of the Omo river, which feeds Lake Turkana. Sad but necessary, I'm afraid, because the benefits of electricity supply to 50 million people outweighs the inevitable destruction of the lifestyle of half a million tribes; however, their youngsters will gain opportunities never before available to them. Of course, the National Geographic disagrees but there you are.
That said, two observations. Firstly, these people in the main are now much healthier and better fed than appears from these photos. Implication is something good is happening although it may just reflect current climactic conditions. Secondly, from a photographer's point of view, the light is very, very harsh, which makes it very hard. Nothing changes here.
Mitch Alland wrote:
These 1965 pictures are in Turkanaland in north-west Kenya, probably near Lodwar, at that time a very small town. I was driving alone, back from Lake Turkana, in a VW Beetle, not on roads, but on tracks in the scrub desert, until I reached the Uganda trunk road from Nairobi to Kampala. The distance from Lake Turkana to Kampala is shown on the web as 670 km and 13 hours. As I recall, it took me 12 hours and I got back home at midnight, driving as fast on the Uganda highway as the Beetle would go and crashing...Show more →
That said, two observations. Firstly, these people in the main are now much healthier and better fed than appears from these photos. Implication is something good is happening although it may just reflect current climactic conditions. Secondly, from a photographer's point of view, the light is very, very harsh, which makes it very hard. Nothing changes here.
Mitch Alland wrote:
These 1965 pictures are in Turkanaland in north-west Kenya, probably near Lodwar, at that time a very small town. I was driving alone, back from Lake Turkana, in a VW Beetle, not on roads, but on tracks in the scrub desert, until I reached the Uganda trunk road from Nairobi to Kampala. The distance from Lake Turkana to Kampala is shown on the web as 670 km and 13 hours. As I recall, it took me 12 hours and I got back home at midnight, driving as fast on the Uganda highway as the Beetle would go and crashing...Show more →
Sep 03, 2017 at 02:10 PM
p.1500 #15Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
waterden - Thanks, interesting.
The light was harsh but, after all this time, I don't recall its nature: was it was overcast and harsh or sunny and harsh? Although I remember hurriedly pressing the shutter for these two shots, before the people would move into another configuration because I had stopped my car on the track and gone out to take the picture, I don't remember how bright it was. It's clear, however, that I underexposed by at least 1½ stops.
I have never been able to print these negatives in the darkroom. Adox KB17 (ISO 40), one the first thin layer films produced, was reputed to have good resolution; but, as I see it, these negatives have neither the latitude nor acutance of Tri-X, which now I wish I had shot. In this overall context, I found these two to be the best version of the dozen or so that I've processed, by letting the bodies go black, without detail.
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Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine
The light was harsh but, after all this time, I don't recall its nature: was it was overcast and harsh or sunny and harsh? Although I remember hurriedly pressing the shutter for these two shots, before the people would move into another configuration because I had stopped my car on the track and gone out to take the picture, I don't remember how bright it was. It's clear, however, that I underexposed by at least 1½ stops.
I have never been able to print these negatives in the darkroom. Adox KB17 (ISO 40), one the first thin layer films produced, was reputed to have good resolution; but, as I see it, these negatives have neither the latitude nor acutance of Tri-X, which now I wish I had shot. In this overall context, I found these two to be the best version of the dozen or so that I've processed, by letting the bodies go black, without detail.
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Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine
Sep 03, 2017 at 02:49 PM
p.1500 #16Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Leica M240, 35mm Summilux FLE. San Francisco market
Sep 03, 2017 at 07:25 PM
p.1500 #17Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
At Luang Prabang, Laos.
M7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on Flickr
M7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on Flickr
M7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on Flickr
M7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on FlickrM7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on FlickrM7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on FlickrSep 04, 2017 at 05:18 AM
p.1500 #18Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
More Luang Prabang:
M7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on Flickr
M7-Planar 2/50 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on Flickr
M7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on Flickr
M7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on FlickrM7-Planar 2/50 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on FlickrM7-Distagon 1.4/35 ZM-Portra 800 by edward karaa, on FlickrSep 04, 2017 at 07:21 AM
p.1500 #19Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Edward,
Nice shots of one of my favorite places, Luang Prabang. Can't believe i think its been almost 7 years since my SE Asia trip when i met you! Fond memories of the boat ride to Pak ou caves, night markets, and the cafes along the riverside. I wonder how much has changed since then?
Nice shots of one of my favorite places, Luang Prabang. Can't believe i think its been almost 7 years since my SE Asia trip when i met you! Fond memories of the boat ride to Pak ou caves, night markets, and the cafes along the riverside. I wonder how much has changed since then?
Sep 04, 2017 at 08:30 AM
p.1500 #20Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
wayne seltzer wrote:
Edward,
Nice shots of one of my favorite places, Luang Prabang. Can't believe i think its been almost 7 years since my SE Asia trip when i met you! Fond memories of the boat ride to Pak ou caves, night markets, and the cafes along the riverside. I wonder how much has changed since then?
Thank you very much Wayne!
Nothing seems to have changed in Luang Prabang. Still the same lovely sleepy city with so much heritage and history. Hope you can make it once more to this corner of the globe!
Sep 04, 2017 at 08:49 AM