Ron, more great photos from the French River. Looks like a good place to relax.
Allen, beautiful portrait.
rirakuma, love the last one. What lens did you use?
Anh, the 35 Biogon looks good to me.
Adam, interesting henna photos. Do you find the 75 cron easy to work with for shots like that?
Ryan, I like the photos with your daughter in the rain and the Hooters photos are, hrm, "interesting" Funny you're mentioning the Monochrom because to me it's starting to look more interesting than the new M.
Phil, nice feel to that b&w
Michael, #1 and #3 are beautiful.
Leica X1 again. I love the dials on the top that makes it so easy to switch to manual mode when necessary, this shot would likely not have been possible even with a "pro" Canikon as it takes too long time to enter M mode and set the shutter speed. (Yeah I know I need to get myself a girlfriend to shoot ...)
As always, too many good pictures to comment them all.
rscheffler, fantastic landscapes!
adamdewilde, like your style!
rsolti13, love your set of the girl in the pound .. can't decide if #2 or #3 is the favorite (I'd recommend to only post one picture of the same subject, that makes it stands out much more.. being selective is the key to become a good photographer)
zhangyue, you know how to get amazing colors out of your Leica
joakim, very Swedish environments
For those interested I have some pics to compare the D800 and M240 colors and how the files behave in post. The samples are attached and the raws are in the links as posted below.
I would think that, apart from the issues of adding any another reflective surface — the issue of any filter — which in certain conditions can create some flare, there should not be any problem as long as the two stacked filters don't create some vignetting with wide-angle lenses. I don't know whether you would need "slim-line" filters.
—Mitch/Bangkok Bangkok Obvious [WIP] Eggleston said that he was "at war with the obvious"...
Here is (probably) the final batch of night street pictures taken in a small street (Chula Soi 5) where there is a strip of some twenty restaurants, mostly not air conditioned, of a type that is beginning to disappear in Bangkok. Started by a Chinese immigrant, mostly Teochew (Chaozhou in Mandarin, Chiuchow in Cantonese) and his Thai wife, these restaurants created a new, unique and excellent cuisine. This area is owned by Chulalongkorn University, which is now taking back the land for redevelopment. Next week all the restaurants have to close down. Some are moving to other parts of town; other ones are moving to side streets. Twenty years ago there were very many restaurants of this type all over Bangkok, but many have closed down or have become modern, fancy places — much more expensive and with the food not as good as before. Incidentally, some fifteen years ago I went to a Chiuchow restaurant in San Fransisco and spoke in Thai when I found that the family owners were immigrants from Bangkok — they refused to let me pay for the meal.
As mentioned earlier the point of this series of postings is to show that the poor low-ISO reputation that the M9 suffers from is essentially a myth; and that, by shooting at ISO 640 and "pushing" in post the image quality (lower noise) and the colors are so good that the M9, contrary to common wisdom, is a good camera for night photography. I started an LUF thread on this technique that created a good deal of enthusiasm and wonder whether I should create a thread on this on this forum and perhaps on RFF as well? After reading the thread a few people that used the M9 only for day shots decided to also use it for night shots instead of, say, the 5D3.
Mitch Alland wrote:
I would think that, apart from the issues of adding any another reflective surface — the issue of any filter — which in certain conditions can create some flare, there should not be any problem as long as the two stacked filters don't create some vignetting with wide-angle lenses. I don't know whether you would need "slim-line" filters.
—Mitch/Bangkok Bangkok Obvious [WIP] Eggleston said that he was "at war with the obvious"...
You can probably stack 2-3 if really needed.. I've seen a test where a guy stacks around 5-7 before the quality is severely lessened. But again, depends on the shooting conditions.
In the test, he stacked filters from all brands, the B+W filters did the best for stacking AFAICR..
Ron, more great photos from the French River. Looks like a good place to relax.
Allen, beautiful portrait.
rirakuma, love the last one. What lens did you use?
Anh, the 35 Biogon looks good to me.
Adam, interesting henna photos. Do you find the 75 cron easy to work with for shots like that?
Ryan, I like the photos with your daughter in the rain and the Hooters photos are, hrm, "interesting" Funny you're mentioning the Monochrom because to me it's starting to look more interesting than the new M.
Phil, nice feel to that b&w
Michael, #1 and #3 are beautiful.
With the M10 at close distances, I can focus the 75cron way better then I could focus the 90cron on the M9p at close distances.. But where I find the M10 shines is, I can get half body shots with the 75cron in focus as well.. Vs. with the 90/M9p where I was having trouble (however, the 90 is by right a harder lens to focus).
A shot of a friend while helping her to film a commercial for her beauty products:
(notice that when I convert from a tiff to a jpg, I lose a rosy look, and gain a yellowed look, *tisk)
adamdewilde wrote:
You can probably stack 2-3 if really needed.. I've seen a test where a guy stacks around 5-7 before the quality is severely lessened. But again, depends on the shooting conditions.
In the test, he stacked filters from all brands, the B+W filters did the best for stacking AFAICR..
I did a few test shots from backyard with sun behind me with MM at 5.6 iso 320 w/CV 21 1.8 Ultron and got major vig, when I shot wide open or close to it, I got less vig. pretty surprised with the findings, I thought it would be the opposite, I used a orange filer only nothing else, gonna do some architectural shots tomm with better lighting so hopefully no issues with it Thanks
jojomon11 wrote:
I did a few test shots from backyard with sun behind me with MM at 5.6 iso 320 w/CV 21 1.8 Ultron and got major vig, when I shot wide open or close to it, I got less vig. pretty surprised with the findings, I thought it would be the opposite, I used a orange filer only nothing else, gonna do some architectural shots tomm with better lighting so hopefully no issues with it Thanks
Yeah, vignetting is going to happen. That goes without saying. But overall loss of quality should be somewhat minimal in most lighting conditions if you stack say two filters.
Joakim, Very nice BW. I especially love the #1.
Jonas, Such a nice portrait! Look forward to see your girlfriend's portrait
Mitch, another nice street set. and like the back-end story.
Allen, Great! #1, #2 are my favorite of the set.
Funny you're mentioning the Monochrom because to me it's starting to look more interesting than the new M.
