Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A treat to see fully used space in such wide angles. Thanks for showing. Bruce. On 25-mrt-2009, at 23:29, Douglas Sharp wrote: > Hi, Ted, > > I am very much a fan of wides, anything wider than 28 mm is ok by me. > > I did encounter one problem with the 12 mm - you keep bumping into > people who are completely in the viewfinder. > > Cheers > Douglas > > Ted Grant wrote: >> Douglas Sharp showed: >> >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Street photography - Italy with CV wideangle >> lenses >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> >> I generally stick to things like steam trains and flowers and leave >> street photography to experts like Lluis. >> >> >> But, today it's snowing again, so I took some time to process some >> old >> slides (2003) that had terrible colour casts (either old stock,bad >> developing or X-ray machines in Italian airports) and decided to use >> almost every possible option in Lightroom 2.3 and convert them to >> BW in PS. >> >> >> Hope you like them. Comments and critique more than welcome. >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/ >> >> >> There's even one with a Signorina :-) >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/ >> 1Image15-3-Edit. >> jpg.html >> >> >> Hi Doug, >> >> Nice use of a super wide by filling the frames One of the mistakes >> many >> folks make when working with 12-14-15mm lenses, they have big >> empty spaces >> in the foreground and sky areas. They think wide and see only the >> centre >> area leaving huge patches of empty space. What you're showing here >> is filled >> space and solid compositions in doing so. >> >> I've used my C/V 15 on the M8 quite often with the external view >> finder. How >> ever I only use it to kind of line up what I would like in the >> shot, check >> the very centre spot in this finder, then I switch to the camera >> view finder >> and centre the scene exactly as I saw it right at the centre. This >> allows me >> to use the sides of the internal view finder to make sure I have >> the camera >> properly aligned vertically and horizontally, then "click!" 99.9% >> fool >> proof. :-) >> >> >> ted >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information