[Leica] Central Valley: Onion Field

[abridge at dcn.org (Adam Bridge)]

On Sunday afternoon we passed a field of onions being grown (I think) for seed.
I say that because there were beehives surrounding the field and MANY bees.

I had the 560mm with me, a good thing since shooting with the M6 and a 50mm or
35mm was contra-indicated because of aforesaid bees! Anyway, I wanted to explore
what I could do with depth of field.

After looking at the results I can't quite figure out if I was thinking in color
or black and white because when I first saw the field I was definately thinking
of exploring what TMAX 100 would do. But what I had in the R8 was a brand new
roll of E100VS.


Here's a cropped version of the color image:

<http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2004-05-Valley/E100VS-02-W.Yolo-crp-crv-shrp-
sqr.jpg>

Here is the larger frame which I've made using the channel mixer, about 70% of
the green channel and a little bit of red and blue to make up the difference:

<http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2004-05-Valley/E100VS-02-W.Yolo-crp-crv-shrp-
mono.jpg>

I like the cropped version in color but I find the black and white version more
pleasing.

Comments and thoughts please.

Adam