Leica 16-35mm Images

[Peter Branch]

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Edited July 3, 2018 by Peter Branch

[Peter Branch]

Try again:-

 

This is an example of the high contrast images the lens produces even when straight into the morning sun.

 

Processed in Lightroom CC Classic with strong minus blue, i.e. a Yellow filter equivalent.

 

Even more creditable as a Leica 82mm UVa II filter was fitted - you can never be too careful near building operations.

 

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Edited July 3, 2018 by Peter Branch

[jrp]

It is indeed a contrasty lens.

 

I am still wondering about the colour balance.  I tried with a B+W UV Haze filter, which still seems to render everything quite cool.  Perhaps it's the new 3.2 firmware colour balance.

[RoySmith]

Wow.

 

How much post-processing was done to this image ?

[Peter Branch]

Wow.

 

How much post-processing was done to this image ?

 

That is a difficult question to answer.  Some would say quite a lot because the image was so high contrast that shadows had to be lightened and highlights toned down.

 

I used a bit of Lightroom "Clarity" on the soil.

There were also a few artefacts which had to be dealt with due to the extreme blue cut needed to darken the sky to match other images in what has become a series.

I doubt that these can be detected but it would not have been possible to make a satisfactory A3 print, which is the aim, without what is basically tidying-up.

 

When I was taught B&W printing some 60 years ago this sort of thing was routine.  Lightroom makes it easier but it is essentially the same.

There is absolutely nothing fancy about the Image Processing.

 

I made a mess of the post and the technical information got lost.

 

ISO 50, 16mm, f/3.5, 1/250sec.  The crop is to the A3 ratio, 1:1.414, and there is no perspective correction.