M10 - the Image Thread

[Steve Ash]

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Same gear, same walk

 

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[Adam Bonn]

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[MikeMyers]

This photo is from the same sequence I took the other day, but it was the last image I took, when the city buildings showed up a little more.  I got to wondering about the fog - I know for a fact there was this bright yellow/goldish fog, which is what convinced me to take the photo in the first place.  For this view, I removed the golden-yellow somewhat, to show a more "normal" view of what was going on.  Buildings are still mostly blocked by the fog.

Funny thing though, the same thing happened today, but a little bit later in the day.  There was no yellow-gold, just a drab gray fog, blocking out most of the color.

This photo is from the first day, taken maybe 20 seconds after the one I printed before.....

 

I'm curious if people like it, or hate it, or ????  If the same thing happens again, how can I capture a better view of it?

 

 

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28 Summaron at f5.6

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God bless Visoflex! (Voightlander 15/f4.5 1/60 ISO5000 M10-R)

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[MikeMyers]

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I guess it’s sometimes better to not even take a photo. I was thinking that it might be nice to take a photo of the blue sailboat I showed in my earlier photo, but capture it “head on”, not from the side. It is anchored just outside my balcony, and by checking the tide charts for Miami, I knew when the tide would change from “incoming” to “outgoing”.

Armed with that information, I went out on my balcony early, put in a fresh battery, and started taking photos of the sailboat from the side. Sure enough, as the tide switched from “rising” (incoming) to “falling” (outgoing) the sailboat started to pivot on its anchor chain, until it was aligned the way I wanted. I captured several photos as this was going on.

Bottom line - ugh! I was able to do what I set out to do, but what an ugly boat, and a useless photo. I think this boat is what’s called a “live aboard”, meaning the people on it can live there, rent free, no expenses, in relative safety and security - other than that Miami has a hurricane heading this way just as I’m writing this.

Having gone to all this trouble, I’ll post the image here anyway, but as a reminder to myself that my imagined final photo looks nothing like the real thing. The old 135mm Tele Elmar lens did OK I think, but my cropping the image so much more didn’t help any. That the sailboat was half in sunlight and half in the shade makes the image even worse.

If I was going to send this photo to anyone, I’d say the heck with my original idea, and go with an angle shot. The boat is just as ugly and ragged, but the photo is less annoying. Next time, I need to pick something a bit more photogenic.

Lessons learned… PhotoLab 5 did fine, but using my very old 135mm Tele Elmar, and then cropping the photo so much, wasn’t a good idea. I guess I need to be more selective in what I want to photograph, but at the time I should have realized this boat is not going to make for a nice photo. On the positive side, figuring out the tide charts, and the lighting, and setting up early meant I did capture the image the way I wanted, but my imagination was showing me a much prettier end result.

 

 

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[louys]

Musselburgh Harbour, East Lothian, Scotland.

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M10, Tele-Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8

 

[Adam Bonn]

17 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

I'm curious if people like it, or hate it, or ????  If the same thing happens again, how can I capture a better view of it?

Ask three different photographers a question and get four different opinions!

this sort of scene isn't really my cup of tea... so pinch of salt most likely required

I think for you it's about the yellow fog? But also the picture is about the boats and the buildings.

I don't know if the edges of your frame are physically constrained by the shooting location... but FWIW if it was me I'd try to get a visual play between the boat masts and the buildings by pointing the camera down a bit and across to the right so that there's not so much sky and the buildings fill more of the top of the picture. I'd also try (if possible) to try and not have the boat masts overlap the boats behind them as a bit of figure ground relationship never did a photo any harm in my view!

Hope this helps?

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[MikeMyers]

7 hours ago, Adam Bonn said:

I'd try to get a visual play between the boat masts and the buildings by pointing the camera down a bit and across to the right so that there's not so much sky and the buildings fill more of the top of the picture.

I'll try that next time.  There's a hurricane heading in my direction, so that might lead to interesting scenes to capture....

[MikeMyers]

Workboat.

M10, 135 Tele Elmar

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Edited September 23, 2022 by MikeMyers

[vikasmg]

21 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

I guess it’s sometimes better to not even take a photo. I was thinking that it might be nice to take a photo of the blue sailboat I showed in my earlier photo, but capture it “head on”, not from the side. It is anchored just outside my balcony, and by checking the tide charts for Miami, I knew when the tide would change from “incoming” to “outgoing”.

Armed with that information, I went out on my balcony early, put in a fresh battery, and started taking photos of the sailboat from the side. Sure enough, as the tide switched from “rising” (incoming) to “falling” (outgoing) the sailboat started to pivot on its anchor chain, until it was aligned the way I wanted. I captured several photos as this was going on.

Bottom line - ugh! I was able to do what I set out to do, but what an ugly boat, and a useless photo. I think this boat is what’s called a “live aboard”, meaning the people on it can live there, rent free, no expenses, in relative safety and security - other than that Miami has a hurricane heading this way just as I’m writing this.

Having gone to all this trouble, I’ll post the image here anyway, but as a reminder to myself that my imagined final photo looks nothing like the real thing. The old 135mm Tele Elmar lens did OK I think, but my cropping the image so much more didn’t help any. That the sailboat was half in sunlight and half in the shade makes the image even worse.

If I was going to send this photo to anyone, I’d say the heck with my original idea, and go with an angle shot. The boat is just as ugly and ragged, but the photo is less annoying. Next time, I need to pick something a bit more photogenic.

Lessons learned… PhotoLab 5 did fine, but using my very old 135mm Tele Elmar, and then cropping the photo so much, wasn’t a good idea. I guess I need to be more selective in what I want to photograph, but at the time I should have realized this boat is not going to make for a nice photo. On the positive side, figuring out the tide charts, and the lighting, and setting up early meant I did capture the image the way I wanted, but my imagination was showing me a much prettier end result.

 

 

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Well!  FWIW, I like the photograph and the boat has a charming authenticity...

[MikeMyers]

3 hours ago, vikasmg said:

Well!  FWIW, I like the photograph and the boat has a charming authenticity...

Thanks - maybe I'm being too hard on myself.

 

I guess I’m too stubborn for my own good. I don’t like yesterday’s photos, for lots of reasons, mostly that I thought the boat looks too ugly, the lighting is horrible, and maybe a view from the end of the boat just isn’t going to get me what I want.

I checked the tide chart, and today the tide would be changing direction almost a half-hour later than yesterday, meaning the sunlight should be better. I started capturing photos from “too early” until “too late”. BUT… The only image that looked decent to me was the “too early” photo, where the boat hadn’t yet moved to the position I thought I wanted it in.

So, back to PL5, cropping more and more and more. I like that I can now see into the boat, showing the steering wheel. It may still be an ugly boat, but in this view the “ugly” doesn’t show up so much.  I guess "authenticity" is important - a "real" photo, not a "fake" or "set-up" photo.  

This is the first image I've gotten of this boat that I enjoy looking at.

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[MikeMyers]

On 9/23/2022 at 10:42 AM, louys said:

Musselburgh Harbour, East Lothian, Scotland.

I love the perfectly flat water, with the perfect reflections, so tranquil, but it contrasts with the sky which is anything but tranquil.   Was this taken with a red filter?  "The calm before the storm"??

[MikeMyers]

Last Friday I took a photo of a white work-boat and barge tied up near my home.  I thought of trying to get a better photo of it, but I couldn't think of anywhere I could get to, to capture a better image.  I gave up, thinking that on the following Monday (today) the workboat would probably be going back to wherever it was being used.

Sure enough, around 7am this morning, I looked out my window and saw a few guys moving around on the workboat.  By 7:30 or so, I had my camera ready, and was out on my balcony waiting for them to get started.  The boat and barge moved out into Biscayne Bay, and they started to navigate between all the small boats at anchor, moving out towards Biscayne Bay.  I probably took about 40 images, continually trying to get a better shot than what I had already done.  I got several photos I was sure I would like, and then they pulled out into the open area of Biscayne Bay, so I now had the city of Miami behind them as a backdrop.  I got one photo after another that I liked more than the one before, and then they turned right, heading off towards Miami, which was the end of my photo-shoot.  

That I was using my M10 rather than my DSLR was good and bad - the Nikon would have had a zoom, meaning I could easily fill the frame with what I wanted.  Most of my shots were taken with my Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO-LANTHAR that I read was "almost" as good as the comparable Leica lens, but $4,000 less expensive.  If I was still working, by now I'd probably have the real lens from Leica, and an M11 to put it on, but I'm not.  Anyway, I got the photo I wanted, somewhere in the middle of my frame, and after half an hour editing the image in DxO PhotoLab, I got the photo I had dreamed of taking, only better.

 

Added later.  After watching hours and hours of "Red Dot Forum" videos, while I'm satisfied with my existing lenses, I feel the urge to update my M10 into one of the two possibilities with updates currently available - but despite my reservations, I think it would make more sense if I did anything, to buy the M11.  It's not an easy decision, and there are things I prefer about the M10 to the M11 which makes the choice even harder.  (I want the brass top, but I also want black, I like the shutter sound from the M10 more, I'm not convinced I need so many more megapixels, I'm not a fan of touch-screen, and the menu complexity of the M11 is getting more and more like my Nikons, rather than the simplicity of the M10.  None of which matters - what I have and use right now it my M10, and here's today's photo:

 

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Edited September 26, 2022 by MikeMyers

[DI1]

M10/50 Summilux 

1948 Cadillac “Flying Goddess”

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[louys]

On 9/25/2022 at 10:21 PM, MikeMyers said:

I love the perfectly flat water, with the perfect reflections, so tranquil, but it contrasts with the sky which is anything but tranquil.   Was this taken with a red filter?  "The calm before the storm"??

Thanks for the comment, Mike. No, the shot wasn’t taken with a filter. I used the Lightroom sliders to get the contrast between the sky and the water.

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[MikeMyers]

Hurricane Ian is on its way to potentially destroy a good part of Florida tonight and tomorrow.  This photo was taken late afternoon yesterday, as these strange patterns started to appear in Biscayne Bay, until it rained for a while, but they always re-appeared.  I have no idea what they are from.

I can't afford a Monochrom, especially if I also want to buy an M11.  I figured I would do the best I could with an image from the M10, processed in PhotoLab 5, and fiddling with many of the settings to get an effect I was satisfied with.  It was taken late in the day, just as it was starting to get dark.

Leica M10, 90mm (old) Summicron.  I guess I should call it "Vintage"?

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Edited September 27, 2022 by MikeMyers