[Leica] Monday Misc.

[Don Dory]

Hi Douglas.  The lighting is a result of her makeup responding
inappropriately to the lighting, analogous to blacklight.  As far as lens
adapters I am all over the map.  I have a fondness for the
Voightlander close focus adapters when using Leica lenses as getting closer
than about a meter is sometimes helpful.  Otherwise I tend to buy midline
adapters as they are available at decent prices; I tend to check the used
sights fairly frequently for various odds and ends.  In the US I find Blue
Moon Camera in Oregon to have a good stock of older lenses at reasonable
prices and graded fairly.

Technique varies all over.  Sometimes you just talk to someone and take
their image, mostly asking first.  In the tourist district I'm just doing a
Friedlander, look, take, maybe take again or move on.  Maybe 20% of the
time I manage to become Llouis and am invisible: that is being aware of
people that are so focused on something else that they lose all peripheral
vision.  Interestingly, I find women to have far more awareness of the
other looking their way and checking the threat level.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 6:10 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> The first and last ones for me, Don. I really like the facial lighting
> on the umbrella woman. As a matter of curiosity, what brands of lens
> adaptor are you using?
>
> Mind you, she does look apprehensive. It's as if you're about to pounce
> and take her Cartier (or is it a replica). I suppose that might be one
> way of funding all these lenses we have to buy. And, of course, that
> begs the question are those running feet visible under the umbrella
> belonging to your accomplice in watch purloining? You can tell us your
> technique, we won't tell anyone :-)
>
> On 29/01/2024 10:51, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> > Greetings to all.  This week brings three portraits. I believe all three
> > were taken with various 55 to 58mm F1.2 lenses adapted to a Sony camera.
> > The first one is a woman I chanced on the street and did a Ted Grant(
> > WOclickW).  I believe this was taken with the recent Voightlander 50mm
> f1.2.
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/concerned+umbrella+woman.jpg.html
> >
> > This gentleman was a great conversationalist, we had a long talk:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/Good+conversationalist.jpg.html
> >
> > Along the tourist district a cosmetic company was running some kind of
> > promotion with free goods applied.  I chatted this young lady while she
> > waited(taken with the Minolta 58mm F1.2):
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/waiting+for+the+makeup+treatment.jpg.html
> >
> > All the best.
> >
>
>
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Don
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