First time experimenting with the optical image stabilization in the Leica Q2. This image isn’t absolutely perfect but handholding at ¼ sec? Just wow . . .
This is at the same site at the Thapae Gate Wall, as the image that I posted yesterday. These three tourists are posing for a selfie taken by a smartphone with a delayed shutter setting, mounted on a small tripod. From Chengdu, they spoke perfect English.
M10 | DR Summicron 50 | ISO 200 | f/4.0 | 1/1000 sec Chiang Mai
I really like this one. So simple, yet so pleasing. Perfect alignment with the ice crystals appearing to be on the tree really draws my eye to look and look and look again. 👍🏼
LBJ2 wrote: burningheart wroteHeatwave - - Peeking out a window - Maybe not - currently -30C
MM246 + 135/APO http://www.robert-chisholm.com/fred_miranda/L1007010.jpgI really like this one. So simple, yet so pleasing. Perfect alignment with the ice crystals appearing to be on the tree really draws my eye to look and look and look again. 👍🏼
Thanks.
With the cold temperatures, I initially planned on doing extreme closeups with my Canon and wasn't getting the result I wanted with the lens I had attached and the available light. I decided to use the monochrom handheld and I was glad I did as I was having fun shooting from an entirely different perspective.
This one really looks like a B&W film photo with some vintage effects. Really love it! This kind of photos make me actually consider at some point a digital M camera (even I would still keep using my Leica film cameras then, too).
Photos taken in stores like the one above from @Mitch Alland can have a very appealing and interesting atmosphere - the one below is one of my recently taken ones with Leica IIIc and Canon 35/2.8 Serenar LTM lens on FP4+ 125 film, developed in Xtol (1:1).
retrofocus wrote:
Photos taken in stores like the one above from @Mitch Alland@ can have a very appealing and interesting atmosphere - the one below is one of my recently taken ones with Leica IIIc and Canon 35/2.8 Serenar LTM lens on FP4+ 125 film, developed in Xtol (1:1)...
One could call this "the art of defeating bad light".
I stopped by the same cosmetics store today and photographed the same young saleswoman: this time with a 50mm rather than the 28mm that I used last time.
This is the other saleswoman in the same cosmetics store as the previous image posted above. This young woman is a Shan, from Chiang Tung in Burma, who has lived in Chiang Mai for 15 years, since she was a child. The Shan are a Thai ethnic group (called "Thai Yai" in Thai), who speak a Thai language that is not mutually comprehensible with standard Thai or the Chiang Mai dialect (similar to Lao), but which makes is easy for Shans to learn Thai. While her spoken Thai is perfect, she cannot read Thai because, as a Thai resident but not a citizen, she was not able to go to a state Thai school. In this shot, I missed focus on her eyes but, for me, the image still works.