Leica Q2 Monochrom - Image Thread

[piran]

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43 minutes ago, nwphil said:

Hi Stephen,

Not sure If I am qualified enough, but would like to help.

In my view, it's a somewhat difficult light situation, or just maybe your positioning -  bright on the mountains and clouds, and shadowed buildings, in special the closer one.

Not sure what is going on at top right corner, but it's not helping. The square format is not helping either, at least for this composition.

Difficult to grasp what was your intent in this image, but the buildings mid way, closer to the lake are not helping - the sky and mountain are interesting, but then the foreground is not. Might be worth to try again this area, and seek different compositions with different lighting,  or just try to get the foreground building on the right to hid building further back.

(don't know the are, so hard to say much about possible compositions/povs). If you shot with dng mode, might ne worth to see how it looks pre-crop

Hope it helps a bit....

Beat me to the draw:-) Was watching the government broadcast. 

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43 minutes ago, piran said:

Beat me to the draw:-) Was watching the government broadcast. 

well, my watching ( if indeed I look) it's a bit more interesting - It's raining, getting a bit warmer, and almost can see the grass growing...I think....🤪

Edited February 1, 2021 by nwphil

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1 hour ago, piran said:

Beat me to the draw:-) Was watching the government broadcast. 

Thanks. To be fair it was one of the very first shots with the camera, and not one of my better ones. I started to use 'Raw Power' app. I re-cropped not square (which I love) - you are right it wasn't the best square. I think this is as best as I can get it now.

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Edited February 1, 2021 by Guest

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On 1/31/2021 at 4:50 PM, HansiMustermann said:

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from today

why can’t I ‘see’ photos like this. I went for a stroll today, I saw a bunch of trees and thought ‘what is so interesting about that’, but you found a great photo of a bunch of trees that Works!  how!?

Edited February 3, 2021 by Mr.Prime

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vor 1 Stunde schrieb Mr.Prime:

why can’t I ‘see’ photos like this. I went for a stroll today, I saw a bunch of trees and thought ‘what is so interesting about that’, but you found a great photo of a bunch of trees that Works!  how!?

It‘s magic! 😉

[Mr.Prime]

46 minutes ago, HansiMustermann said:

It‘s magic! 😉

ha! the man with a Leica wand !

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On 1/30/2021 at 10:13 AM, Pixmaker said:

First image post, you all have created outstanding photographs, thank you for the inspiration.  My dad in his home just after a cancer treatment at hospital this week.  His wisdom to me just before I created this image, "Every day is a bonus."  Q2M, ISO200, 1/50@ f1.7, cropped 1:1.

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A fine shot and sage advice.  I wish him well.

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A bit of history:

Now for something different, a menu of the Civil Censorship Division, Group "B" APO 757  from 1945 - part of my family's history. It actually is a rather nice looking menu and must have been much appreciated at that time. The Q2M is pretty good as a copy machine, and does a great job of copying B & W prints from that era.

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9 minutes ago, SPB2 said:

A bit of history:

Now for something different, a menu of the Civil Censorship Division, Group "B" APO 757  from 1945 - part of my family's history. It actually is a rather nice looking menu and must have been much appreciated at that time. The Q2M is pretty good as a copy machine, and does a great job of copying B & W prints from that era.

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ok - you got me interested. how much more are you willing to tell/share with us? I find it intriguing being written in English accounting for location ( see menu), and the mix of menu items

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nwphil, when I was doing my family tree history, this document came up my mother worked for the US forces 1945/6 as a postal examiner and then a translator mainly in and around Frankfurt. She was Polish and spoke several languages fluently. However we never managed to find the 'space' to talk about this all. All I have is a box or two of Black and White images also from my Grandparents who came from S.E. Poland close to the Ukraine border of today. It is better these days but in the beginning when they had all passed away I couldn't look at these images. I forced myself as a therapy to make digital copies of as many of the images as possible. In that process I am so disappointed with my own colour prints from the seventies taken on cheap bulk films - virtually all faded. Yet these Black and Whites and my own from the seventies no problem. (One or two of them, couldn't be saved for various reasons).

Sadly I have drawn a blank for further information and I don't know anyone who can tell me more. I find that hard not to know being a curious minded individual. I should have tried harder to force the start of the conversation especially with my grandparents.

Edited February 4, 2021 by Guest
wanted to add a little bit more.

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1 hour ago, SPB2 said:

nwphil, when I was doing my family tree history, this document came up my mother worked for the US forces 1945/6 as a postal examiner and then a translator mainly in and around Frankfurt. She was Polish and spoke several languages fluently. However we never managed to find the 'space' to talk about this all. All I have is a box or two of Black and White images also from my Grandparents who came from S.E. Poland close to the Ukraine border of today. It is better these days but in the beginning when they had all passed away I couldn't look at these images. I forced myself as a therapy to make digital copies of as many of the images as possible. In that process I am so disappointed with my own colour prints from the seventies taken on cheap bulk films - virtually all faded. Yet these Black and Whites and my own from the seventies no problem. (One or two of them, couldn't be saved for various reasons).

Sadly I have drawn a blank for further information and I don't know anyone who can tell me more. I find that hard not to know being a curious minded individual. I should have tried harder to force the start of the conversation especially with my grandparents.

Thanks for sharing Stephen,

I was intrigued by not just because it was in English, but mainly because most items are still currently an American cuisine's staple : Turkey, cornbread, gravy , sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.... more of thanksgiving than Christmas I would say.

The first sentence in your reply confirms my suspicions  

My family history is also now gone with the wind for most part, as no one kept records and preserved them - so many unanswered questions left; but that's' life. I wonder how future generations will handle current records, as OS will become obsolete ( good luck finding a system still reading a floppy drive LOL...but even current disk hard drives will become an issue in many ways. then the cloud thing. ..

I have a huge pile of slides and B&W 4x4 and 4x6 negatives to go thru....one day, maybe

Phillip

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4 hours ago, nwphil said:

Thanks for sharing Stephen,

I was intrigued by not just because it was in English, but mainly because most items are still currently an American cuisine's staple : Turkey, cornbread, gravy , sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.... more of thanksgiving than Christmas I would say.

The first sentence in your reply confirms my suspicions  

My family history is also now gone with the wind for most part, as no one kept records and preserved them - so many unanswered questions left; but that's' life. I wonder how future generations will handle current records, as OS will become obsolete ( good luck finding a system still reading a floppy drive LOL...but even current disk hard drives will become an issue in many ways. then the cloud thing. ..

I have a huge pile of slides and B&W 4x4 and 4x6 negatives to go thru....one day, maybe

Phillip

The question that nags me is whether our descendants will be interested in our photos. My guess is that pictures of people (their ancestors) will be welcome, but all of our travel photos and so-called "art" photos--not so much--unless they are really excellent.

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8 hours ago, nwphil said:

Thanks for sharing Stephen,

I was intrigued by not just because it was in English, but mainly because most items are still currently an American cuisine's staple : Turkey, cornbread, gravy , sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.... more of thanksgiving than Christmas I would say.

The first sentence in your reply confirms my suspicions  

My family history is also now gone with the wind for most part, as no one kept records and preserved them - so many unanswered questions left; but that's' life. I wonder how future generations will handle current records, as OS will become obsolete ( good luck finding a system still reading a floppy drive LOL...but even current disk hard drives will become an issue in many ways. then the cloud thing. ..

I have a huge pile of slides and B&W 4x4 and 4x6 negatives to go thru....one day, maybe

Phillip

You make some very valid points about Hard Drives and future readability! I have put some small parts of our history online. Of course even that is paid-for space. When I stop paying I presume unless I have moved it all to a free space, that history will fade away too. 

B & W Family and there is also another url there to a PDF of my parents business that was until the end of the sixties-

Edited February 5, 2021 by Guest
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I have spent considerable time considering what will happen to my large library of digital images which include several thousand copies of family prints from over the past century. 
 

Technology moves on and only because we in this community spend so much time and money migrating to new computers and systems do our images stay available. 
 

My family loves my photos, but no one has  demonstrated sufficient interest to learn enough to carry the images forward after I’m gone. Sad to me, but reality. 
 

I have chosen to make photo books of all kinds of topics related to our family and when possible distribute among multiple family members in the hope that even disasters such as a fire would not destroy all copies. I use Blurb to make the books. They just recently introduced archival paper which I plan to use going forward. I may in fact go back and reprint several books with that paper. Prints in books have a chance to last at least 100 years if kept in the dark and in a dry environment. Where possible annotating with names and additional info is really long term valuable. I do some of that and need to do more. 
 

I’d love to hear about others ideas for carrying forward photos to future generations. 

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3 hours ago, Leica Guy said:

I have spent considerable time considering what will happen to my large library of digital images which include several thousand copies of family prints from over the past century. 
 

Technology moves on and only because we in this community spend so much time and money migrating to new computers and systems do our images stay available. 
 

My family loves my photos, but no one has  demonstrated sufficient interest to learn enough to carry the images forward after I’m gone. Sad to me, but reality. 
 

I have chosen to make photo books of all kinds of topics related to our family and when possible distribute among multiple family members in the hope that even disasters such as a fire would not destroy all copies. I use Blurb to make the books. They just recently introduced archival paper which I plan to use going forward. I may in fact go back and reprint several books with that paper. Prints in books have a chance to last at least 100 years if kept in the dark and in a dry environment. Where possible annotating with names and additional info is really long term valuable. I do some of that and need to do more. 
 

I’d love to hear about others ideas for carrying forward photos to future generations. 

I am doing similar, books. 

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Mono gives the subject matter a retro feel ...nice.

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I just rented a Q2 Monochrom and the M10M.  I've been wanting to try one of Leica's monochrome cameras since the first appeared years ago.  I took the Q to the beach this morning to play around with it for just a few minutes.  Got this snap of a backlit clam on the sand taken in Macro mode, huge crop.  I was having trouble with focusing, probably because I just have trouble seeing through an EVF in bright sun.

 

 

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