N.delaRua
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Hi all! Unfortunately, I have not had the time shoot as much as I would like to lately, but I just got back from a trip to Guatemala. I currently am a student studying Chagas disease, and all of these picture were taken on a recent research trip.
I was fortunate enough recently get a Leica M6 TTL. I have two lens which I thoroughly love especially with Tmax, Tri-X, and high speed films. The first lens is the 50 mm summicron dual range. It is fantastic, beautiful, and very small. However, I do not like the performance of this lens with color film nearly as much as with B&W. It seems to produce some really muted colors and seems to lose a lot of contrast (with color film) but maybe that is a result of the muted color renditions.
The second lens is a 90 mm Rokkor which is fantastic. I do not mind the slow maximum aperture of f 4.0 because it seems to be the perfect amount of depth of field for in focus faces in portraiture.
On this trip, I really stuck with the 50 mm the entire time. Film was Fuji Sensia 100 or Fujia Provia 400. Unfortunately, the film was scanned in X-ray machine coming back into the U.S. : ( The 100 appears to be fine, but the 400 was super grainy... Oh well. I know I ranted about the muted colors of the 50 DR, but all that was taken care of in photoshop with some saturation and levels!
Enough words, here are some of the shots...
Antigua, Guatemala
Antigua, Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule Guatemala
Tocadores in Antigua
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
Thanks for looking.
I was fortunate enough recently get a Leica M6 TTL. I have two lens which I thoroughly love especially with Tmax, Tri-X, and high speed films. The first lens is the 50 mm summicron dual range. It is fantastic, beautiful, and very small. However, I do not like the performance of this lens with color film nearly as much as with B&W. It seems to produce some really muted colors and seems to lose a lot of contrast (with color film) but maybe that is a result of the muted color renditions.
The second lens is a 90 mm Rokkor which is fantastic. I do not mind the slow maximum aperture of f 4.0 because it seems to be the perfect amount of depth of field for in focus faces in portraiture.
On this trip, I really stuck with the 50 mm the entire time. Film was Fuji Sensia 100 or Fujia Provia 400. Unfortunately, the film was scanned in X-ray machine coming back into the U.S. : ( The 100 appears to be fine, but the 400 was super grainy... Oh well. I know I ranted about the muted colors of the 50 DR, but all that was taken care of in photoshop with some saturation and levels!
Enough words, here are some of the shots...
Antigua, Guatemala
Antigua, Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule Guatemala
Tocadores in Antigua
El Tule, Guatemala
El Tule Guatemala
El Tule, Guatemala
Thanks for looking.
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N.delaRua
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Hmmmm... the my post does not seem to be recognizing the HTML code? Any ideas?
biakalt
Long Tran
you need to use this tag and the pictures will appear (for every one of them)
cheers
cheers
N.delaRua
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Thanks for the help! Fixed.
tennis-joe
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I love everyone of your photos. It certainly captures the countryside as a National Geographic photographer would. The colors are so vivid they are unbelievable as are the faces.
Jose Guerra
Jose Guerra
N.delaRua
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Thanks, Guatemala is a very vivid country thats why I chose to shoot slide film when my heart only wants to shoot B&W.
N.delaRua
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Yes, there is malaria too but it was not very prevalent in the area we were studying. Here are a couple of more shots:
Antigua, Guatemala
Coffee plantation in Antigua. If you've had coffee form Antigua this might be the same plantation. These plants are maturing, and they produce coffee that is very "sauve."
These are "los cinches." This is one of major insect vectors of Chagas disease in Central America.
Antigua, Guatemala
Coffee plantation in Antigua. If you've had coffee form Antigua this might be the same plantation. These plants are maturing, and they produce coffee that is very "sauve."
These are "los cinches." This is one of major insect vectors of Chagas disease in Central America.