It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here.
I suppose I could write something in the way of explanation, but frankly it wouldn’t be interesting enough to spend the time. I’m simply going to jump back in.
Yesterday was July 4th and I wanted a donut and coffee, so I grabbed a camera and headed down 5th Ave to get my favorite chocolate old fashioned at Top Pot Doughnuts. Afterwards, I wandered around for a bit before grabbing a beer at Old Stove Brewing near Pike Place Market. There is always something to see in the market.
Here are some of the images from my walk.
All images were made with my Leica Monochrom and 75mm Summilux. It was a nice change to dust off the digital Leica and once again I appreciate the unique quality of the camera.
Thanks for looking.
Very nice. I like market photos too. Markets everywhere are very interesting. I see the photos look like they have grain. But this is the Monochrom… so do you have any specific edit that makes it look like grain or is that how it looks on its own?
The grain is a combination of both the unique look of the Monochrom digital noise and Lightroom edits.
The quality that I dislike most in digital images is the hyper-realistic sharpness, lack of noise and smoothness. I’m not even talking about HDR specifically, just high definition, eye-bleeding sharpness. So, I shoot the Monochrom at a higher ISO setting, at least 800 or 1600, adding an orange or ND filter to allow wider apertures in sunlight.
I can shoot to preserve the highlights as much as possible and then expand the shadows in Lightroom without introducing any nasty artifacts like banding.
For an old tech, 18mp camera, I like the results. The images print very nicely, also.