[Leica] IMG: Hungry Fishermen and Lake Solano

[afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)]

G'day Adam,

Don't be scared to take that tough M8 especially if you get the passport 
warranty ;-) As Geoff discovered, they are built to bruise!!! Mind you the 
M8 would not have been the ideal camera for your cycling subject anyway. The 
first image is serene, but could lose the featureless water and sky without 
any problem. It lacks a real central subject but the reflection is lovely: 
Is that a drain? Image 2 gets us in amongst the action, and the cropping 
looks good. I suspect that a longer lens would give you more details of the 
birds, but the atmosphere was probably going to spoil even a great lens' 
detail. So as a moody image on a moody misty day, its a nice compromise 
focal length wise. Getting rid of the foreground branches on the Right would 
help as they sort of ruin the line and reflections of the subject.

Cheers

Alastair (who should be out there riding or doing something to lose that 
christmas cheer!!!)

Ps glad to see you are well on the road to recovery

--- abridge@gmail.com wrote:

From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Hungry Fishermen and Lake Solano
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:22:21 -0800

Since THIS year I don't have a shattered shoulder I was free to ride a part
of the metric century. Along the way we rode past Lake Solano where a
cluster of hungry fishermen sat in the cold fog hoping for better times. The
valley is filled with fog these days, and isothermal at 41 degrees F. Our
route followed part of this year's Amgen Tour of California race. It'll be
fun to watch them do the climbs! Alas there was no buxom angel at the top of
Cardiac waiting. Drat!
<http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/6979845_9k3G6#446717901_ukJ5W>

I don't dare take my M8 when I ride so these were shot with a Canon G9 at
ISO 400. I'm a bit disappointed in the sharpness. Both images were shot at
the camera's longest focal length.

Comments, etc, invited and welcome, of course.

Adam

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