M10 - the Image Thread

[Adam Bonn]

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16 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

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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I like this one Mike. IMO it works well in BW and the ripples in the water add a nice texture and the figure-ground relationship works well.

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8 hours ago, Adam Bonn said:

I like this one Mike. IMO it works well in BW and the ripples in the water add a nice texture and the figure-ground relationship works well.

Thank you!  It's tough to make a color image look acceptable in B&W, at least for me.  Right after removing the color, I think uggh!  as a big part of the image is lost, but then after playing with it forever, as if it was modeling clay, I start to find ways to bring it back to life.

I enjoy the image you just posted, because the crystal-clear details on the two people contrast so much with the grayed out, and fuzzy details all over the background.  My eye jumps from all that stuff to look at in the background, to the scarf and the fellow's hair.  That everything is centered the way you've done it, offset to the right, makes it stronger than had everything looked centered.  The lighting just draws people's eyes right to the center too.  I'm curious how you did that - the Summilux presumably has no vignetting, so you must have done it deliberately - and it works!

[MikeMyers]

As I'm writing this, Florida is being torn apart by a powerful hurricane.  I don't dare go to go to where the "action is" (too dangerous, by far!!!) but I found a little of the storm action right in front of me.

I saw all the small boats being tossed around, and the person on this boat trying to tighten the lines holding things in place, I waited until all the elements of the photo came together the way I wanted. From that, I got a decent color photo, and then spend two hours trying to find how to make it look good in B&W. I changed my PhotoLab 5 “Workspace” to “Advanced”, so all the possible changes were right in front of me. In working on this image, things went from acceptable, to “worse”, and then I struggled to get PL5 to do what I wanted until I liked the result.  It finally came together, in a way that pleased me.

My problem - the image is B&W because my goal was to create a good B&W image. The color version is… well, “different”.  I hope it stands on its own as a decent B&W image, and not just poor comparison to the color version......

 

My desire for a Monochrom is because I thought it would give me the best possible B&W images.  I didn't realize until today that were I to buy a Monochrom, I would also want to buy a set of color filters, just like what I used to use with B&W film.  For the types of photography I usually do, maybe the M10 is perfectly adequate.

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Color Version of the above B&W image...

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M10 + 35/2 LLL

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10 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

Color Version of the above B&W image...

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Interesting that you present b/w plus color images. In the above case for me the b/w works better. I feel distracted by the strong blue of the boat and sails.

[Adam Bonn]

16 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

I enjoy the image you just posted, because the crystal-clear details on the two people contrast so much with the grayed out, and fuzzy details all over the background.  My eye jumps from all that stuff to look at in the background, to the scarf and the fellow's hair.  That everything is centered the way you've done it, offset to the right, makes it stronger than had everything looked centered.  The lighting just draws people's eyes right to the center too.  I'm curious how you did that - the Summilux presumably has no vignetting, so you must have done it deliberately - and it works!

Thank you very much.

We all have our personal tastes RE composition... for me... if the shot features a single static subject, then somewhere around the centre often works best to my eye (for a single moving subject, a person walking, or a moving car etc I think giving them a bit of space to move into works better)

OMWV

I'm not personally a huge fan of shallow DOF in my pictures... (it's something that seems to work better when other people do it! But I do use it sometimes) but when I do use it I like to use it when there's a lot of space in the background anyway to really bring out the subject. Maybe if my fastest lens wasn't 1.4 I might make it work better for me... you have to be quite close I think to completely obliterate the background with 50/1.4, it's not like 50/0.95 (or anything in the 90+ range)

I don't typically add a vignette to shots.. but the Lux does vignette (most fast lenses do), even with the LR profile that it automatically applies. I also used an ND filter, because plentiful light, F1.4 and the M10's 200 ISO don't play nicely together!

What drew me to take this was the scene itself (a couple staring out to sea, physically close but maybe far apart, make up your own story!!!) and the fact that I knew I'd get a decent chunk of contrast from the aperture and the difference in the brightness between the top and bottom of the frame, and that the subject(s) would be half in the dark bit and half in the light bit! Plus the silver hair and white top would pop out nicely.

I'm pleased with the picture... but it's not something that's hard to come by if one happens to live near the sea or any other open expanse of nothing that folks like to stop and stare at.

 

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911 Turbo 

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[MikeMyers]

Having fun with my 135mm Tele Elmar, M10, Visoflex.

Between Live View, the Visoflex, and such a tiny viewfinder window with this lens, I wonder why I didn't use my DSLR.  

Maybe it's to prove to myself that anything I might shoot with a DSLR, I can also capture with the M10.

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Identifying the mushrooms.

 

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Whoops.  These were meant to go in the M10-R image thread.

 

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A Lone Journey

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Nature showed its beauty last week. Nokton 35/1.4sc. View from my balcony.

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M10/50 Summilux 

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On 10/2/2022 at 7:42 AM, Adam Bonn said:

A Lone Journey

I know it isn't, but that thing that looks like a mirror on the front of the train, looks like it has a shiny back, and my eyes keep seeing you with your camera in the reflection.   I know, not possible, but that's what I (think I) see.

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57 minutes ago, MikeMyers said:

I know it isn't, but that thing that looks like a mirror on the front of the train, looks like it has a shiny back, and my eyes keep seeing you with your camera in the reflection.   I know, not possible, but that's what I (think I) see.

it's a reflection of the roof, where I'm standing I can't be (and indeed am not) reflected on the windscreen of the train!

An empty platform, a train about to depart, a lone figure walks languidly towards her carriage, shoulders weighted by the gravity of the world... she wonders what awaits..

...or make up your own story 😅

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