NEW YORK NEW YORK – A picture of a Leica taken with an iPhone.
On this day last year: New Milford 9/11 Memorial.
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Tuesday May 28, 2013
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Monday May 27, 2013
NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – More extreme stuff with the Leica Monochrom. I spent the day shooting at ISO 5000 in daylight. That means stoping the lenses down all of the say and shooting at 1/4000 seconds, Needless to say every thing is sharp, the image is contrasty so there is no need to add contrast in post and there is noise in the shadows. Noise can be reduced by binning – downsampling the image to one quarter of it’s size. This leaves a pixel deficit for large high resolution prints, which can be fixed by stitching multiple images. So here we have three images exposed at ISO 5000 with my Monochrom and an 18mm Leica SEM lens, three frames stitched and downsampled in Photoshop to reduce noise. Note the nice shadow detail and crisp rendering on the spray. This is fun.
On this day last year: Macedonia State Park. Hiking last year in Connecticut, tuning up for our trip to Switzerland. A crumby picture. I really have trouble with these Eastern deciduous forests. Keep shooting, keep shooting, keep shooting . . . Maybe I’l figure it out some day.
WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – More infrared so watch out for gimmicks. On the golf course today with my Leica Monochrom, 35mm lens and infrared filter. It was a sunny day so this produced an extreme infrared effect with a black sky and white foliage. As noted yesterday the effect is more subtle in the winter so I usually don’t shoot infrared this time of year – but I’m checking to see how this works with my Monochrom. This requires extremely high ISO – this image was taken at 5000. This results in a good bit of digital grain which can be minimized by processing – particularly by downsizing the image. This is three frames stitched:
Another:
On this day last year: John and Alexander.
WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – I’m continuing to push the limits of my Leica Monochrom. Today I put an infrared filter on the camera and spent the day shooting infrared. I usually don’t like the strong infra red look (with white foliage) so when I shoot IR I usually shoot it in the winter. Here we are in the garden shooting infra red.
On this day last year: Astilbe.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – The conversations around here today were about people’s bad drive – the Saw Mill Parkway was closed because of flooding from torrential rains. Build an ark. Today is midway through what turned out to be three days of steady, heavy downpour. Demotivating to a guy who likes blue skies and puffy clouds. I’m going to push a bit on the technical side this weekend, so watch out for gimmicks. Today I tried to cut the gloom by using on-camera flash for landscape with my Leica M and Leica S, shooting for either very wide or very narrow depth of focus. Here are some example:
On this day last year: Why did I take this? Allow me a moment of public self-flagellation. Why on earth did I take this? I guess every year needs a worst picture but this looks like I was out to establish a low point.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had ten for dinner tonight. I catered it myself. The trick in this number is to minimize last-minute preparation, for example by planning on side dishes that are served at room temperature, spring veggies with a bagna cauda sauce (substituting finely chopped chorizo for the anchovies), green pea puree and a warm potato salad. The entree, a butterflied leg of lamb marinated in yogurt, was an easy last minute roast, so the only last minute cooking activity was carving the lamb. Here we are at the table taken with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summillux lens.
On this day last year: chrome column.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Near the end of the busiest season of the year in my law practice. Taken on the street with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Dual Range Summicron.
On this day last year: Harley.
