[Leica] Nathan's PAD 31/12/2012: serious young man and high ISO

[john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)]

Apart from not focussing that close ;-)

john

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Wow that is tight cropping ;-) I love the intimacy of the first image, the
> second is very good, but I think you have 'centered' the pen in order to 
> focus
> on it, and I would love to see another cropping of the image to eliminate 
> the
> amount of dead space bottom left. I suspect you would not do this with the
> Rangefinder, where composition is so easy after you have 'struggled' to
> focus. I reckon a Monochrome with the nocti would handle this ;-)
> 
> Alastair
> 
> > My son is 23 and in his last year of the Masters programme in
> > Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bath. He is spending his
> > Christmas break with us here in Alicante, but he has been putting in
> > at least 3-4 hours a day doing this, including on the last day of the 
> > year:
> >
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-
> Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2299239620&
> > k=BMv22wQ&lb=1&s=O
> >
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-
> Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2299239724&
> > k=cQmKrkc&lb=1&s=O
> >
> > I am very proud of him.
> >
> > On a technical note: these images were taken at ISO 6400 and a
> > relatively wide aperture with a 100mm macro lens. Oh how I wish that
> > my Leicas could do something similar at such ISO speeds. When the
> > light is good, the Leica glass blows anything else away; but when it
> > is dark(ish), the inferior sensors let down those magnificent lenses.
> 
>