Love on the Wrong Side of Town

[jplomley]

M8 + Zm 25/2.8

[WPalank]

Jeff,
I love the composition with the OOF or blurry foreground element. The two pairs of people in the background really complete the image.

[imiges]

Looks to be the start of a series along with small intimacies...
Agree with William and would add, nice timing!

Amado

[roguewave]

Jeff, genuine, with real street mood. Love it.

[imported_reinierv]

I think the walking man is a bit too close to/overlapping a bit the couple in the frame, so it gets "crowded" if you know what I mean

[stuny]

Jeff -

I agree with William.

[jplomley]

Cheers for the feedback everyone. I had to really throttle back on the PP of this image in order to, as Ben so eloquently stated, get it looking "genuine, with real street mood".

IR, I get where you are coming from....my back was against the wall and unfortunately I was stuck with the Zeiss 25mm; there really was no time to grab anything else. Needless to say, I have been thinking more and more lately about a second M8. Just waiting to see what is launched in a few weeks time before making a move.

[azzo]

Shot at 1/15th or 1/30th ?

Jeff,

Excellent capture IMHO.

[rubenkok]

Hi Jeff,
That's life, excellent work.
All the best
Ruben

[jplomley]

Azzo, Ruben, thank-you for your comments.

Azzo, I would have to go back to the RAW files, but IIRC it was about 1/30th, f/4 at ISO 320 with -0.7 eV compensation (highlights can be an issue on the M8 at ISO 160 and 320; less so at ISO 640/1250/2500...not sure why this is, just my empirical observations)

[Lotw]

good title!

[jplomley]

Thanks Lotw. I was worried if one did not live in the area, they may not get the title...but I thought the juxtaposition of the darkened figure would adequately convey the meaning.

[Lotw]

Originally Posted by jplomley

Thanks Lotw. I was worried if one did not live in the area, they may not get the title...but I thought the juxtaposition of the darkened figure would adequately convey the meaning.

Sure!
It reminds me of an old country song, covered by the flying burrito brothers, but also by wilson pickett, percy sledge or otis redding, if I'm not mistaken: 'At the dark end of the street' (that's where we'll always meet, hiding in shadows that hides our wrong, Oh, but our love keeps coming on strong).
BTW, what I also llike about it is the non-digitalized character of the image, a but filmy, as if there is some grain in it?

[jplomley]

The "noise" of the M8 when converted to monochrome is rather unique in it's resulting image structure. Film-like is rather accurate and I often wonder if this was not part of the product specification when Leica was engineering this camera.