[Leica] Central Valley: Onion Field

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

I love the cropped one. And I would keep it in colour, too: it's almost a
duotone and it adds to the "floral" feeling IMO
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> From: Adam Bridge <abridge@dcn.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:03:01 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Central Valley: Onion Field
> 
> 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
> 
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