Re: [Leica] warm polarizer

["A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@actek.com.au>]

Hermann wrote:

> HI,
> i find that i prefer not to use a filter on my lenses but use the color of
> the natural light during the morning hours and evening hours. take a look at
> NG and you'll find that almost 80% of the photos have been shot during those
> 'warm-glow' hours. There is no cheating which can be easily detected by the
> position of the shadows.
>
> Besides the color of the light, shadows are equally important and make the
> difference between a 'normal' image and one that touches the realm of
> spectacular. Look at old master Adams and you'll find that he preferred the
> 'glow-light' hours even though he worked in b/w, simply for the shadows
> which make an image three dimensional and interesting to spectacular.
>
>
> Don't miss a visit to see the latest addition to my on-line portfolio

  Hermann,

how right you are. This morning, I received a set of colour prints back fro my
photo lab. I had them stored in the fridge, and consequently forgot about them,
until about a week ago, when my wife went crook at me for using the space she
needed in the fridge to feed the family.

The pictures where taken last May, our autumn, at my shack in Alexandria,
Australia about 150km north of Melbourne. During the time of about 4:30 to 6:30
pm.

The day was a typical Melbourne autumn day. Blue sky , clear,  with just a few
specs of cloud.  The equipment was my M3 and the 50mm DR Summicron. The light
meter an MR4.

The colours the evening sun produced where a mixture of yellow and red.
Up here in the bush, contrary to Melbourne, there are no european, or american
type trees, which turn to the colours appropriate for autumn. The trees an
foliage stays green.
However because the way the evening sun shone on to the landscape, it seemed
that the trees copied the european trees and also changed colour. You could have
been mistaken of thinking , the pictures where taken somewhere in England or
Maine in autumn.
The only indication that it was not so, was the shape of the trees.

This prints, where so impressive to me, I had nearly all enlarged  - 12 out of
16 I done- to
10"x 15".  Normally I do 1 or 2 out of 36.

You are right also with the bit about the shadows. They help a lot to indicate
the time of day and also put more interest in to the composition. In about 5 of
the above prints, my wife and son where in the pictures, and the light and the
shadows brought a lot of solitude in to the picture.

Best prints I made for a long time. My whole day today is brightened. It feels
like I achieved something.

Regards, Horst Schmidt