Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
p.1709 #3Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
The last couple of months, I've been posting most of my photos under the The Empire of Signs label, whose background I've summarized a few posts back. Not something to take too seriously: it's a bucket for possible images for an extended series or a book. At this stage, it's merely notional, including both color and B&W, although the series is likely to end up B&W. Last night, I put together in Lightroom 120 images, of which 35 are old ones. Reviewing the set, I find it interesting but "too loose" and not edgy enough, because the best I can do under plague conditions is to reprocess rather then adding new images: the process to go forward is a recursive one — I need to solidify the visual definition of an empire of sigs by adding new images based against the background of what I have and what I have reprocessed, for continuing the visual development of the series; and this is the element that's lacking. Frustrating.
M10 | DR Summicron 50 | ISO 200 | f/4.0 | 1/350
Bangkok – The Empire of Signs
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Frog Leaping photobook
M10 | DR Summicron 50 | ISO 200 | f/4.0 | 1/350
Bangkok – The Empire of Signs
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Frog Leaping photobook
Apr 05, 2020 at 08:00 AM
p.1709 #5Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Leica M3 | Summicron 35v4 | Portra 400
Wiang Pa Pao
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Frog Leaping photobook
Wiang Pa Pao
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Frog Leaping photobook
Apr 05, 2020 at 01:42 PM
p.1709 #7Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
April sunshine
A welcome sight.
se & 120-makro @ F/2.5
A welcome sight.
se & 120-makro @ F/2.5
Apr 05, 2020 at 03:20 PM
p.1709 #9Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Mitch I will echo what others have said, and though I haven't had anything to contribute in some time I still come back to FM every day just to check in on this thread.
Just speaking to my own personal experience but this quarantine has dramatically impacted me mentally, creatively, emotionally (and even physically if you count my lack of exercise) but I am trying to reinvigorate my creative brain by feeding it with threads like this one.
Once again I've sold off most of my equipment to reset the bar but a big part of the reason I want to come back to the Leica M world has nothing to do with the brand itself (which I often have my own gripes about) but rather this group, this specific community makes me want to continue relying on Leicas as tools.
So please, everyone, let's continue this thread and not let it become polluted like so much of this forum has, like so many photography groups and ESPECIALLY Leica groups have. We're all in a uniquely challenging time as photographers, but that's exactly the time to stick together.
I have been shooting when I can with my M-A but I haven't set up processing equipment here at home and my lab is closed for the time being so I don't have any new work to share. There's a good chance I'll be re-buying an M10 (or one of its variants) in the near future so I'll do my best to find a way to contribute
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Just speaking to my own personal experience but this quarantine has dramatically impacted me mentally, creatively, emotionally (and even physically if you count my lack of exercise) but I am trying to reinvigorate my creative brain by feeding it with threads like this one.
Once again I've sold off most of my equipment to reset the bar but a big part of the reason I want to come back to the Leica M world has nothing to do with the brand itself (which I often have my own gripes about) but rather this group, this specific community makes me want to continue relying on Leicas as tools.
So please, everyone, let's continue this thread and not let it become polluted like so much of this forum has, like so many photography groups and ESPECIALLY Leica groups have. We're all in a uniquely challenging time as photographers, but that's exactly the time to stick together.
I have been shooting when I can with my M-A but I haven't set up processing equipment here at home and my lab is closed for the time being so I don't have any new work to share. There's a good chance I'll be re-buying an M10 (or one of its variants) in the near future so I'll do my best to find a way to contribute
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p.1709 #10Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Leica Q2
Leica Q2
Apr 05, 2020 at 07:37 PM
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p.1709 #11Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
AbramG wrote:
Mitch I will echo what others have said, and though I haven't had anything to contribute in some time I still come back to FM every day just to check in on this thread.
Just speaking to my own personal experience but this quarantine has dramatically impacted me mentally, creatively, emotionally (and even physically if you count my lack of exercise) but I am trying to reinvigorate my creative brain by feeding it with threads like this one.
Once again I've sold off most of my equipment to reset the bar but a big part of the reason I want...Show more →
You're absolutely right about the value of this thread—although it seems some of us might have needed a gentle kick in the bum from Mitch to realise it. I'm glad you've held on to your M-A, even if you're unable to use it now. As much as I like my digital Leica bodies, a recently purchased M4 has given me just as much enjoyment.
I'm very fortunate in that my lab, although closed to walk-ins, has continued to function, having set up a very efficient system that allows customers to mail in their film or drop it through a slot in the door and have their negatives posted back. Scans are uploaded to Dropbox and a link emailed.
Please continue to participate in the thread...
Mitch I will echo what others have said, and though I haven't had anything to contribute in some time I still come back to FM every day just to check in on this thread.
Just speaking to my own personal experience but this quarantine has dramatically impacted me mentally, creatively, emotionally (and even physically if you count my lack of exercise) but I am trying to reinvigorate my creative brain by feeding it with threads like this one.
Once again I've sold off most of my equipment to reset the bar but a big part of the reason I want...Show more →
You're absolutely right about the value of this thread—although it seems some of us might have needed a gentle kick in the bum from Mitch to realise it. I'm glad you've held on to your M-A, even if you're unable to use it now. As much as I like my digital Leica bodies, a recently purchased M4 has given me just as much enjoyment.
I'm very fortunate in that my lab, although closed to walk-ins, has continued to function, having set up a very efficient system that allows customers to mail in their film or drop it through a slot in the door and have their negatives posted back. Scans are uploaded to Dropbox and a link emailed.
Please continue to participate in the thread...
Apr 05, 2020 at 07:40 PM
p.1709 #12Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
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Apr 05, 2020 at 08:19 PM
p.1709 #13Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Twins
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Leica Q2
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Leica Q2
Apr 05, 2020 at 08:33 PM
p.1709 #14Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
San Miguel de Allende
Leica Q2
Leica Q2
Apr 05, 2020 at 09:22 PM
p.1709 #15Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
genji wrote:
AbramG wrote
Mitch I will echo what others have said, and though I haven't had anything to contribute in some time I still come back to FM every day just to check in on this thread.Just speaking to my own personal experience but this quarantine has dramatically impacted me mentally, creatively, emotionally (and even physically if you count my lack of exercise) but I am trying to reinvigorate my creative brain by feeding it with threads like this one.
Once again I've sold off most of my equipment to reset the bar but a big part of the reason I want to come back to the Leica M world has nothing to do with the brand itself (which I often have my own gripes about) but rather this group, this specific community makes me want to continue relying on Leicas as tools.
So please, everyone, let's continue this thread and not let it become polluted like so much of this forum has, like so many photography groups and ESPECIALLY Leica groups have. We're all in a uniquely challenging time as photographers, but that's exactly the time to stick together.
I have been shooting when I can with my M-A but I haven't set up processing equipment here at home and my lab is closed for the time being so I don't have any new work to share. There's a good chance I'll be re-buying an M10 (or one of its variants) in the near future so I'll do my best to find a way to contribute
.I'm very fortunate in that my lab, although closed to walk-ins, has continued to function, having set up a very efficient system that allows customers to mail in their film or drop it through a slot in...Show more →
Oh I will! My M-A holds sentimental value so I’ll never sell it. I’m still shooting when I can and just accumulating film I’ll process later on. The past couple of years have been somewhat creatively infertile for my photography but I’m finding a strong desire to shoot again, just not really having a direction in what I want that to be.
But I’m derailing the point of my comment. This thread, this group, this little micro-community is special. A safe space to share, give and receive feedback, discuss work, travel etc and it’s all somehow centralized around Leica.
Even if we don’t have work to share, we can still discuss, especially in times like these, there is so much value in that.
Apr 05, 2020 at 10:23 PM
p.1709 #16Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
AbramG – It's how I feel about my M3, on which I have the tiny, external Voigtlander 28/35 viewfinder mounted, as well as about my M6. The M6 has an 0.85x MP viewfinder that I had put in because my original 0.72x viewfinder flared so easily in bright, tropical light that I couldn't see the light meter diodes, and sometimes couldn't even see the rangefinder patch. There's no way I could sell these cameras, even if I don't know if I'll shoot with them again.
On the will to shoot or getting a direction, I've written about this in a wordy post a month or so ago. Daido Moriyama published his Light and Shadow in 1982, ten years after his previous book and three years after he stopped shooting altogether, a time he had been strung out on opioids. What got him back to shooting was looking at the first photograph ever made, the one by Niépce: an eight-hour exposure out of his window, showing just some light and shadow of a building that barely can be made out as such. Moriyama the shot a macro of a peony on a dark, shadow background and, then, continued with the concept of light and shadow, in his high-contrast style. This resonated with me when I was thinking what to do next, after I finished my book: I rememberers how for the pictured I like the best, I had the imputes to shoot when I saw a form of light and dark, often looking into the light — and then brought the camera up to my eye.
The text in Light and Shadow states that Moriyama created a "narrative between light and shadow". That can sound like artspeak cant, but means something to me. The text also stated that Moriyama went, in that book, as far away as possible from the realm of words. In his book on Japan, Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes had the same concept of haiku, and photographs, being "the end of language", with the image speaking directly, without evoking words. All that brought me to what I'm trying to do now.
Leica M3 | DR Summicron 50 | Portra 400
Pak Nam Pran – Empire of Signs
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Frog Leaping photobook
Edited on Apr 06, 2020 at 06:58 AM · View previous versions
On the will to shoot or getting a direction, I've written about this in a wordy post a month or so ago. Daido Moriyama published his Light and Shadow in 1982, ten years after his previous book and three years after he stopped shooting altogether, a time he had been strung out on opioids. What got him back to shooting was looking at the first photograph ever made, the one by Niépce: an eight-hour exposure out of his window, showing just some light and shadow of a building that barely can be made out as such. Moriyama the shot a macro of a peony on a dark, shadow background and, then, continued with the concept of light and shadow, in his high-contrast style. This resonated with me when I was thinking what to do next, after I finished my book: I rememberers how for the pictured I like the best, I had the imputes to shoot when I saw a form of light and dark, often looking into the light — and then brought the camera up to my eye.
The text in Light and Shadow states that Moriyama created a "narrative between light and shadow". That can sound like artspeak cant, but means something to me. The text also stated that Moriyama went, in that book, as far away as possible from the realm of words. In his book on Japan, Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes had the same concept of haiku, and photographs, being "the end of language", with the image speaking directly, without evoking words. All that brought me to what I'm trying to do now.
Leica M3 | DR Summicron 50 | Portra 400
Pak Nam Pran – Empire of Signs
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Frog Leaping photobook
Edited on Apr 06, 2020 at 06:58 AM · View previous versions
Apr 06, 2020 at 04:36 AM
p.1709 #18Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Well. I'm back.
Just picked up an M10-P and 50 Summilux Pre-ASPH from a friend, it'll make things easier to post while I wait to get film processed. I'll try to contribute soon.
Just picked up an M10-P and 50 Summilux Pre-ASPH from a friend, it'll make things easier to post while I wait to get film processed. I'll try to contribute soon.
Apr 06, 2020 at 09:31 PM
p.1709 #19Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
^ That sounds great. I like the 50 Summilux Pre-ASPH more than the ASPH one. A friend and I ran out to buy the last two (new) 50 Summilux Pre-ASPH lenses in Bangkok, for $1,350, as soon as the ASPH lens came out. Actually, I like the pre--ASPH as much as the DR Summicron.
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Apr 07, 2020 at 04:16 AM
p.1709 #20Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
S2 with Summarit 70mm lens.
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