[Leica] Grab shot M8 with no filters and no time to think

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

If this is your "grab shooting," you should spend less time planning  
and thinking.

Very nice cityscape.

Ric Carter


On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

> Over on the "M8 use filters or not" thread I mentioned this picture  
> and said I'd show it if I liked it.
>
> I like it.
>
> Today I accidentally got onto a road that forced me onto the San  
> Francisco Bay Bridge, but I knew I could get off at Treasure Island  
> and turn around without paying the toll. The turn-around point was  
> just in front of the guard gate for a naval base. As I turned, I  
> saw this container ship and its tugboat getting ready to meet, so I  
> grabbed the camera, metered, and clicked the shutter. I thought I  
> wanted a longer lens, but I had a 24 mounted and didn't think I'd  
> have time to change lenses before the tug and the container ship  
> met up.
>
> I rather like the image, and after studying it for a while, I think  
> that 24 or 28 was the right lens instead of the 50 that I started  
> to reach for.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/pwic/grabshot3.tif.html
> Leica M8, 24/2.8 Elmarit, f/5.6 @ 1/1000, ISO 160, no filters.
>
> The Gallery software doen't like TIFF files; you can see the  
> cropped but not scaled TIFF image at http://reid.org/~brian/images/ 
> grabshot3.tif.
>
> The copy that I'm keeping in my archives has the horizon  
> straightened, but I wanted all of you M8 haters to be able to see  
> the pixels pretty much as they came out of the camera, give or take  
> some color balance and levels adjustments.
>
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