Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lluis wrote: "Oliver, You get a superb M8+Cron35 quality!, really extra. What a pleasure shot with such large format camera! Saludos Lluis" Thank you, Lluis, for your kind words. I enjoyed working in the 4x5 inch format. Oliver Nathan wrote: "Hi Oliver, I like the first one best; the scene itself does not look that interesting, although I can imagine that with B&W and probably red filter etc. he can make it look more dramatic than it really is. Cheers, Nathan" Thanks, Nathan; I appreciate your comments. I completely agree with you regarding the scene not being interesting; I only included it in the sequence to show what the chap was looking at. The camera position is just not suitable for an interesting image. I have illustrated your point regarding the red filter at http://tinyurl.com/2eewy9o . The LF photographer told me that he wanted to capture the mood of Ansel Adams's 1932 photograph "The Golden Gate before the Bridge" with its dramatic clouds. I told him that he was not in the right location and pointed to an accessible spot about half a mile away that would at least come closer to where Ansel's tripod holes might be. There has been quite a bit of erosion in the intervening eight decades and venturing out to the edge is just not safe in most spots. Oliver