WARREN CONNECTICUT – Not a very productive day on the photo front. I’m not sure why this happens, but it seems to be hard to sustain interesting work with complete consistency on a day in and day out basis. Today I put my 90mm Elmarit on my Leica Monochrom and carried it through my day.
It may be that I just don’t resonate with this focal length. I tend to do best shooting wide. Anyway, I settled for some birches:
On this day one year ago: Spin.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Another beautiful day in rural Northwestern Connecticut. We’ve turned the two or three acres nearest the house into a parklike setting, mowing around the mature oaks and maples. Three angles captured with my Leica Monochrom and my 1957 lens, a 50mm dual range Summicron.
On this day last year: Self, on the way to
Hong Kong.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Out with the Leica Monochrom. Since this is my site I can probably get away with saying that this thing delivers medium format quality without being flamed. It’s a real sensation. It doesn’t see in color so there is no bayer array in front of the sensor, roughly doubling the sensor’s resolution from 18 megapixels to the equivalent of 30 or so. Here are some more experiments with film looks all taken with the Monochrom and 50mm Dual Range Summicron lens.
Three frames stitched in Photoshop.
On this day one year ago: Feet.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Further exploitation of a long weekend: a Sunday night dinner party with friends in Connecticut. I cooked pulled pork and ribs all day in my Green Egg. Just OK results but people loved it since they don’t have fixed expectations. Taken by candlelight with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Noctilux lens.
On this day one year ago: Litchfield.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – More images with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summilux lens. I’m basically black and white shooter so the Monochrom is a dream. It took some balls in Leica’s part to build it – it’s the only black and white digital camera ever and it was probably fairly expensive to develop. It really is a breakthrough.
Our garden is very productive this time of year:
Not an exciting image, but a test of high dynamic range capability. I’m in heaven.
On this day last year: Subway stairs.
WAAREN CONNECTICUT – We had some fun today. We were approached by a film production company called Lost Highway Films. Lost Highway is producing a television commercial for State of Connecticut tourism folks. They came across our new old boat (the 1952 Chris Craft) on this website. After some negotiation on fees, insurance and so on we agreed that they could film the boat in action in a segment of the commercial that they were shooting on Lake Waramaug. Today was the day. We had a stressful hour dealing with a dead battery but finally got things running.
I was surprised at the number of people involved. There must have been sixty or seventy in total. So the “talent” (five actors) got costumed up in into the boat, and we spent four hours running around the lake being filmed from a pontoon boat. A lot of fun. I’ll post a link when the commercial is finished, probably around the end of September.
Anyway, here are some images, all taken with my Leica M9 and Noctilux.
The Pontoon boat.
The production company had a still photographer on the team. He had set up a Profoto with a soft box which I borrowed (along with some off duty talent) for this.
Riding back to the barn.
On this day one year ago: A mud slide caused by the remnant of Hurricane Irene. We subsequently built a retaining wall here.
WAREN CONNECTICUT – More of Doug and Judy’s house. This taken with my M9 and 24mm Summilux lens. Two frames stitched. This post illustrates a problem with the web format for images: the browser contains the width of images. I use 900 pixels, which is large by web standards and means that this site loads more slowly than it might otherwise, but this is a photo site and image quality matters to me. The result of the 900 pixel limitation, though, is that horizontally oriented pictures like this one, which can be stretched out on a wall in person, end up being very small on the web. This results in a bias toward portrait orientation in the pictures that I post, and probably in the pictures that I take. The web has affected by shooting style.
On this day one year ago: Fog at sunrise.
