Fine Art Landscape Photography with the Leica M10 - Review

[Mauricio]

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Vieri, 

Thank you for your article, it has help me to clarify many doubts in my mind. I really appreciate your time and the comparison. If you do not mind would you share in greater detail your decision to stop working with the S (Type 007). I was under the impression a medium format camera would be a better choice for fine art land scape photography versus an SL or M10 because the dynamic range, the size of the files and the ability to bigger prints. The 2 lenses I was drawn to the S system where the 120 TS APO and 24mm. Any thoughts I will greatly appreciate. 

Grazie 

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vor 7 Stunden schrieb Mauricio:

Vieri, 

Thank you for your article, it has help me to clarify many doubts in my mind. I really appreciate your time and the comparison. If you do not mind would you share in greater detail your decision to stop working with the S (Type 007). I was under the impression a medium format camera would be a better choice for fine art land scape photography versus an SL or M10 because the dynamic range, the size of the files and the ability to bigger prints. The 2 lenses I was drawn to the S system where the 120 TS APO and 24mm. Any thoughts I will greatly appreciate. 

Grazie 

You're about one year and seven months late, Grazie.

[Jeff S]

In the meantime, Vieri has indeed moved to MF, but to the X1D (and now X1Dii).  The S system didn’t suit his style with long exposure limitations, etc.

Jeff

[Vieri]

On 8/22/2019 at 12:51 PM, Mauricio said:

Vieri, 

Thank you for your article, it has help me to clarify many doubts in my mind. I really appreciate your time and the comparison. If you do not mind would you share in greater detail your decision to stop working with the S (Type 007). I was under the impression a medium format camera would be a better choice for fine art land scape photography versus an SL or M10 because the dynamic range, the size of the files and the ability to bigger prints. The 2 lenses I was drawn to the S system where the 120 TS APO and 24mm. Any thoughts I will greatly appreciate. 

Grazie 

 

On 8/22/2019 at 8:00 PM, Jeff S said:

In the meantime, Vieri has indeed moved to MF, but to the X1D (and now X1Dii).  The S system didn’t suit his style with long exposure limitations, etc.

Jeff

Indeed I moved to the X1D, and now X1D II, about one year ago. The S (Typ 007), which I had for about 6 months, didn't suit my work style at all - as Jeff said, long exposures limitation were impossible to live with, just to mention one thing - but I long believed that medium format was the way to go to improve on image quality after the SL.When I made that decision, the X1D system was finally mature (FW-wise) and the 21mm was released, and among all possible MF choices I decided to go for the X1D (please see my blog's Hasseblad's reviews, found here: https://www.vieribottazzini.com/tag/hasselblad, if you are interested). Please note that I do landscape only, no other kind of photography, and for that IMHO the X1D (now II) is just the best tool for the job, with the best compromise of features. If you also do other kind of photography, or if you do a different kind of landscape than I do, of course your choice of gear can be different.

Hope this helps! Best regards,

Vieri

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Whats the difference between fine art landscape photography and landscape photography?

Is it simply the same but better?

More editing?

What happens if a landscape photographer produces better pictures than a fine art landscape photographer?

Anyway the pics are nice.

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8 hours ago, steve 1959 said:

Whats the difference between fine art landscape photography and landscape photography?

 

Well if the photographer calls it 'fine art' it almost certainly isn't, if other people call it 'fine art' you've walked into a conference of museum directors who would know the difference.

Fine Art has become an abused term to describe something that diverges from a strictly informative documentary shot called 'Grand Canyon' in which the photographer matches the postcard from the gift shop. The self appointed 'fine art' photographer includes a further element of photographic technique featuring perhaps a time exposure of clouds above the Grand Canyon, to create a work called 'Grand Canyon with clouds'. It's not fine art, it's decorative art, hence the number of posts about 'how big can I print', it's 'for filling wall space art', it's 'I know a bit about cameras art', etc.

Your actual fine art photographer ploughs a lonely furrow often working with ideas as much as pressing the shutter and producing a coherent body of work that holds together unfazed by exploring more and more megapixels or the bokeh magic of the latest Leica lens.