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Gorgeous mountain views high above Grindelwald, Switzerland.

 

M246/21mm SE

 

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An uncommon approach with your composition to this landscape. Works for me! Love this ribbon of a walkway that optically plays with the mountain. M246 rules. Any filter?

 

 

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An uncommon approach with your composition to this landscape. Works for me! Love this ribbon of a walkway that optically plays with the mountain. M246 rules. Any filter?

 

 

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Thanks! I tend to push my approach towards 'uncommon' compositions particularly with the 21mm and tend to get satisfying results every now and then though it does not always work.

Used an orange filter and pushed one stop in post through Silver Efex.

And yes on the M246... :-)

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Thanks! I tend to push my approach towards 'uncommon' compositions particularly with the 21mm and tend to get satisfying results every now and then though it does not always work.

Used an orange filter and pushed one stop in post through Silver Efex.

And yes on the M246... :-)

Thanks for the technical notes, making the cloudless sky more dramatic with the orange filter. Maybe even red, but you may have lost some of the scaffolding silhouette of the walkway, which is what this shot speaks to for me: we construct technological vantage points in nature to experience the sublime. Alexander Pope mentions the "Aha!" in his discussion of garden design as an area along a path that winds to an open vista affording a surprise view of open grassland and distant hills. Tell us you didn't try your base jumping from the end of the skywalk! It's been a long while since I've been to Grindelwald, but I am wondering if you tried others filters, given the altitude. I have been toying with the idea of the LEE Seven5 filter system to have more control balancing sky and ground. Have you had any experience with LEE? I haven't done a search, so no doubt there are LEE users, but since we're both using M246, I thought you might have some feedback.

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Thanks for the technical notes, making the cloudless sky more dramatic with the orange filter. Maybe even red, but you may have lost some of the scaffolding silhouette of the walkway, which is what this shot speaks to for me: we construct technological vantage points in nature to experience the sublime. Alexander Pope mentions the "Aha!" in his discussion of garden design as an area along a path that winds to an open vista affording a surprise view of open grassland and distant hills. Tell us you didn't try your base jumping from the end of the skywalk! It's been a long while since I've been to Grindelwald, but I am wondering if you tried others filters, given the altitude. I have been toying with the idea of the LEE Seven5 filter system to have more control balancing sky and ground. Have you had any experience with LEE? I haven't done a search, so no doubt there are LEE users, but since we're both using M246, I thought you might have some feedback.

The orange filter is my only color filter, a B&W. I try to go lean on added features when it comes to my Leica shooting as I feel it complicates things most of the time, switching filters, body, focal length... too many options. Orange is my middle ground way on bright sunny days like these to help creating the shot and providing desired support in post from that (filter) perspective if that makes sense.

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The orange filter is my only color filter, a B&W. I try to go lean on added features when it comes to my Leica shooting as I feel it complicates things most of the time, switching filters, body, focal length... too many options. Orange is my middle ground way on bright sunny days like these to help creating the shot and providing desired support in post from that (filter) perspective if that makes sense.

I hear you. I usually have an orange filter working, but I don't hesitate to go for a yellow or red, depending on the shot and the contrast that works best in the situation. I occasionally use a polarizer, and I've be shooting video with the M246, experimenting. Shooting video at 1/50 sec means using ND filters, especially controlling shallow focus. My bag is light with only one body and two lenses, the 35mm and 50mm black chrome editions, but I like the idea of that 21mm you have.

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I hear you. I usually have an orange filter working, but I don't hesitate to go for a yellow or red, depending on the shot and the contrast that works best in the situation. I occasionally use a polarizer, and I've be shooting video with the M246, experimenting. Shooting video at 1/50 sec means using ND filters, especially controlling shallow focus. My bag is light with only one body and two lenses, the 35mm and 50mm black chrome editions, but I like the idea of that 21mm you have.

The 50 was my first lens. Old love never dies. I ended up replacing the 35Cron with the 28Cron and *much* prefer it being this tad bit wider -- but the 21 was a true eye opener and while not everything works, the composition challenge is accepted and *when* it works, it does work wonders (in my book, of course). Highly recommend the SE.

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The 50 was my first lens. Old love never dies. I ended up replacing the 35Cron with the 28Cron and *much* prefer it being this tad bit wider -- but the 21 was a true eye opener and while not everything works, the composition challenge is accepted and *when* it works, it does work wonders (in my book, of course). Highly recommend the SE.

Thanks so much for your input; yes, the Super-Elmar-M is next on my wishlist. With its 91-degree angle of view and awesome depth of field stopped down, this lens will let me use forced perspectives of foreground against background. I am thinking about what cinematographer Greg Toland did in Citizen Kane.  Bill Brandt, too, although he used Rolleiflex and Hasselblad. What you did the railing in the foreground of your shot with the Alps in the background. Too much fun.

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Thanks so much for your input; yes, the Super-Elmar-M is next on my wishlist. With its 91-degree angle of view and awesome depth of field stopped down, this lens will let me use forced perspectives of foreground against background. I am thinking about what cinematographer Greg Toland did in Citizen Kane.  Bill Brandt, too, although he used Rolleiflex and Hasselblad. What you did the railing in the foreground of your shot with the Alps in the background. Too much fun.

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