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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW Summarit explorations
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Oct 30 16:57:51 2005
References: <9b678e0510300718x5e2536feu6830ff99d1f98490@mail.gmail.com> <4365635D.3030206@hemenway.com>

lovely photos of your daughter Don...I am especially partial to the  
first by the window....Steve



> Don Dory wrote:
>
>
>> Greetings again. Last week I played around with a Summarit at  
>> F1.5. This
>> lens does indeed provide that famous Leica "Glow". For some  
>> situations this
>> lens has a unique signature very hard to replicat in PS and  
>> certainly not to
>> everyones taste.
>>  First up is a window portrait of my daughter. This is a little  
>> less than
>> half the negative as the original showed far more of the window in a
>> landscape mode.
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album167/VMARYWINDOWSMILINGPRINTADJU
>>  Second is a gray day shot with room to show the Summarit's unique  
>> signature
>> in background detail at wider apertures.
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album167/marybench
>>  Last for today is a shot taken while waiting at the airport. No  
>> stealth,
>> just pick up the camera and shoot.
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album167/waitinginlove
>>  The portraits were part of a series that will go into a painting  
>> so the
>> unique glow was part of my plot to take some creative control away  
>> from the
>> artist.
>>  Enjoy, take pictures, and certainly comment.
>>  Don
>> don.dory@gmail.com
>>

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