12mm in Iceland

[angeloks]

Hi,

I spent 3 weeks in Iceland with my Leica M6 with the 12mm Heliar mounted on it. I used various film (XP2, Velvia 100, Portra 160 & 800, etc...). Anyway, here are some shots that I like. You can see the complete serie on my Flickr page! Critics and comments are welcome.

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[Matus]

Some great work Julien. Your shots with the CV 12mm are another little weight of choosing the smaller of the two (R3A -v- RF645).

I am a bit wondering about that magenta sky in the 6th shot. Is that just scanning or does the slide (I guess Velvia 100) really looks like that?

 

[Krosya]

Nice work - very very cool photos!

 

[Jonas]

Great shots!

 

[robert blu]

excellent use of this lens, bravo !
robert

 

[morgan]

Wonderful shots!

 

[Brad Bireley]

Very nice! Great work!

 

[capitalK]

Must. Go. There. Someday.

Very nice job, the 12mm probably is not what I would reach for first but you have used it to great effect here.

 

[totifoto]

Nice work 😉

So....how do you like Iceland? 😎

We Icelanders ask all foeigner this question 😀


By the way these pics make me wanna buy some wide for my M6.

 

[John Robertson]

I admire your bravery with No 10!!!! You must have been rather close to that fumerole!!!

 

[Rob-F]

Thanks for the pictures. They give me a better idea of how Iceland looks. You have a good eye!

 

[angeloks]

Nice work 😉

So....how do you like Iceland? 😎

We Icelanders ask all foeigner this question 😀


By the way these pics make me wanna buy some wide for my M6.

Iceland is a wonderful country. I really enjoyed my stay. We rented a car in Reykjavik and did the round trip, about 2300 miles. A lot of hiking, etc... Icelanders were great. Vestmann Islands are awesome and so is Hornstrandir!

 

[Don Parsons]

Like 'em all but your purple lupins (#13) is terrific!

 

[robertdfeinman]

My favorite lens. It's great for the wide angle of view, but also for the forced perspective (near - far) that you can achieve by getting close to something in the foreground.

Give it a try sometime.

By the way, I have some tips on how to deal with the vignetting that the lens is subject to on my web site. On most of the pictures it isn't too bothersome, but I think #6 might be better with a bit less vignetting.

In any case if you want to try fiddling, it's all done with Photoshop after scanning, so nothing is irreversible.

Here's one devoted to this specifically:
http://robertdfeinman.com/tips/tip22.html
There is even a Photoshop action that you can download and then modify to your own tastes.

There are others in the section on dealing with wide angle images in general.

It's always hard to capture scenes that are so foreign to our day-to-day experience, especially the sense of scale, but I think you managed in several cases quite well.

 

[bobbyrab]

Ok I know I'm going to get a kicking for this, but here we go, with no offence meant, honestly. So you go somewhere with outstanding beauty, can't get a normal lens to properly convey what you see, so you slap on an ultra wide lens to add drama, to me it's like those filters the fade from orange to give the sky dramatic colour, a bit of a cheap trick. I really don't mean to be confrontational; I just think that if you have to use that sort of focal length to get an image to work it's not worth doing. As you can tell, not a big fan of ultra wide lenses.

 

[jack palmer]

Ok I know I'm going to get a kicking for this, but here we go, with no offence meant, honestly. So you go somewhere with outstanding beauty, can't get a normal lens to properly convey what you see, so you slap on an ultra wide lens to add drama, to me it's like those filters the fade from orange to give the sky dramatic colour, a bit of a cheap trick. I really don't mean to be confrontational; I just think that if you have to use that sort of focal length to get an image to work it's not worth doing. As you can tell, not a big fan of ultra wide lenses.

You deserve to get a kicking. So your not a fan of ultra wides? Is that any reason to rain on someone elses parade? They're some pretty nice shots. And sure you mean to be confrontational, that's why you took the time to make the negative post.🙄

 

[sooner]

I'm sure you could have gotten outstanding shots using different focal lenghts also, but for me that doesn't take away from how awesome these shots are with the 12mm. Great job. I don't agree that going ultra wide was some kind of trick. Perhaps the next best thing to going so wide is to go...panoramic! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Melvin]

This is really cool stuff, I wish I could see them bigger.

 

[elshaneo]

Awesome images. They do make me want to visit Iceland ;-)

 

[le vrai rdu]

nice pictures 🙂