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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Street photography - Italy with CV wideangle lenses
From: leica at ralgo.nl (leica)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:18:30 +0100
References: <7au4gf$2e6odj@pd4mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca> <49CAB052.7030005@gmx.de>

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
>>
>>
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