[Leica] IMGs: Beauty of M9 colors at night (Bangkok portfolio)

[mitcha at mac.com]

I have always liked the colors that one can get with the M9, and the ones at night can be particularly beautiful as long as one processes the files to look like night. One that I like particularly is this Bangkok picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/9139937872/in/photostream/lightbox/

The above pictures was shot at ISO 800 with the Summilux-50 pre-APH lens (f/2.8 at 1/60 sec). If you want to see more you can download the following 8MB PDF file with 16 Bangkok night shots:

http://bit.ly/1i93new

 Most of these were shot using the technique of “shooting at ISO 640 and pushing in Lightroom 5;” some have been pushed as much as 4 stops. Shooting in this way actually makes the M9 a good camera for low light night photography, considering the results that are possible even in street photography.

Most of these pictures were made on very dark nights, often without any street lights: the light mostly was from fluorescent tubes from shop windows or food carts. Conditioned by the bright, flat light in shopping centers, we tend to think of fluorescent lighting as ugly; actually fluorescent tubes can produce beautiful colors. Indeed, there is a range of fluorescent cine lights called "Kino Flo.”

C&C welcomed. Also, please post your color night shots.

- - Mitch