Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nick/Jim, I get blank sky too: Leica M6 : 50mm Noctilux : green filter : Ilford HP5 http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/Temp.htm Sometimes it even rains: Leica M6 : 50mm Noctilux : green filter : Ilford HP5 http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/Temp_02.htm but a decent sky makes even a bush into a passable shot (IMO): Leica M6 : 50mm Noctilux : red filter : Ilford HP5 http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/Temp_03.htm I don't imagine the sky here is any better than most areas in the UK and generally speaking I am only shooting two days a week unless I spot a good sky on the way home from work: Olympus OM2n : Zuiko 50mm f1.4 : red filter : Ilford HP5 @ 400 http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/06067.htm It's just that when I get a decent sky I burn lots of film and use it to give my stuff a lift. --Graham ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Roberts" <nickbroberts@yahoo.co.uk> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] What GeeBee might see > Jim, there's hugely less airbourne pollution in the UK today than there > was in the 1950s, when everybody burned coal. The Clean Air Act and > numerous other laws targetted at industrial waste, for example, have meant > that London's "pea soup" fogs don't exist any more. To give another > example, the city of Leeds was successfully bombed just once in the Second > World War - the rest of the time the smog was so bad it couldn't be seen! > I remember the shock 30 years ago when they cleaned the Leeds University > clock tower - it was white underneath, not the grey-black it had always > been! So there isn't as much industrial residue as there used to be. > Northants is not particularly close to the coast (although nowhere in the > UK is that far - the central point of England is about five miles away > from where I'm tying this, and that's comfortably under 200 miles from the > sea - but it's a fairly rural county without huge amounts of industry. > Where I live - more or less next door in Warwickshire - is very similar > to the landscape we see time and again from GeeBee - the gently rolling > typically English countryside. What I don't get is how he always manages > to have such wonderful cloud formations - every time I go out around here, > the sky is either featureless blue or white, and that's not haze! > > Nick > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, 12 June, 2006 5:49:27 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] What GeeBee might see > > > Ric, > > You are correct about the haze. When I started flying in the late 1950s, > visibility was much better than it is today. The haze hides the cloud > contrast, except for about one day when a cold front passes. I assume > that > the seacoasts are close enough to GB to keep his horizons free of > industrial > residue. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >