[Leica] IMG: Street photography - Italy with CV wideangle lenses

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Hi, Ted,

I am very much a fan of wides, anything wider than 28 mm is ok by me.

I did encounter one problem with the 12 mm - you keep bumping into 
people who are completely in the viewfinder.

Cheers
Douglas

Ted Grant wrote:
> Douglas Sharp showed:
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> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Street photography - Italy with CV wideangle lenses
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> Hello all,
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> I generally stick to things like steam trains and flowers and leave 
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> street photography to experts like Lluis.
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> But, today it's snowing again, so I took some time to process some old 
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> slides (2003) that had terrible colour casts (either old stock,bad 
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> developing or X-ray machines in Italian airports) and decided to use 
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> almost every possible option in Lightroom 2.3 and convert them to BW in PS.
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> Hope you like them. Comments and critique more than welcome.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/
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> There's even one with a Signorina :-)
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/1Image15-3-Edit.
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> Hi Doug,
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> Nice use of a super wide by filling the frames One of the mistakes many
> folks make when working with 12-14-15mm lenses, they have big empty spaces
> in the foreground and sky areas. They think wide and see only the centre
> area leaving huge patches of empty space. What you're showing here is 
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> space and solid compositions in doing so. 
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> I've used my C/V 15 on the M8 quite often with the external view finder. 
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> ever I only use it to kind of line up what I would like in the shot, check
> the very centre spot in this finder, then I switch to the camera view 
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> and centre the scene exactly as I saw it right at the centre. This allows 
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> to use the sides of the internal view finder to make sure I have the camera
> properly aligned vertically and horizontally, then "click!"  99.9% fool
> proof. :-)
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> ted
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