Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah, another LUGger who?s been there! We should get up a reunion for peak lavender 2016. ?howard > On Jul 31, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> > wrote: > > totally agree, about Senanque and the sony > > > steve > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > Steve Barbour > > On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > > Peter? > > Oh, for heaven?s sake! Where is your house? I?m so envious! If I?d known, > I?d surely have visited. I like the area so much that I just got back from > my second visit to the Abbey. The photo is from 2012, when my wife and I > took an 11-day tour of ?Roman Provence?. And my son and I just spent 16 > days in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France. It was the > partial implementation of a longtime dream vacation for me, to pick up a > new BMW in Munich and then tour Europe, driving wherever the whim takes > me. Of course, ideally my traveling companion would be my wife, and the > trip would be a couple of months, spring into summer or summer into fall, > but two weeks of father-son bonding was a good trial run. I went back to > S?nanque both to show Philip the place and to try to catch the lavender in > bloom. When we were there the first time, it was late May and there were > no flowers, explaining the green color in the photo. Too early for even a > hint of lavender color. This trip happened a month later in the year, but > there was only a disappointing bit of bloom, probably still before the > peak. Tell me the best time to come next year and I?ll meet up if you?re > there! > > The online reproduction is quite faithful to the original, where the stone > is indeed a bit washed out, as you can see from where I posted it in the > Gallery: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/ > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/> > > I took it with my favorite travel-light camera, the Sony NEX-7. I?m not > sure that any camera would have done better without histogram peeping and > manual exposure compensation, since the dynamic range extended from the > shadow side of trees on the left to pale stone facing the noon sun on the > right, completely filling the histogram. Certainly, I have been mightily > impressed by the capabilities of the NEX-7, even with the kit zoom, and > will be first in line to get its full-frame, curved-sensor, 50-MPx > successor (speculation mine!) Other photos in the album were made with the > M9. > > ?howard > > >> On Jul 31, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> >> wrote: >> >> Howard, >> >> When were you there? I have a house just a few km away and would have been >> delighted to meet up if I was down there. >> >> You did much better than 2nd - as I read it you tied for first because the >> judges couldn't decide. >> >> C&C: What camera did you use? The stone looks a bit washed out and the >> lavender >> looks an unusual shade of green. Is it the same in the original, ie is it >> their >> reproduction? >> >> Peter >> >> On 30/07/2015 23:17, Howard Ritter wrote: > > _______________________________________________ > 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