Leica LTM First image with CV 21 Skopar - Empire State Bldg

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Well, I'm beginning to see what an earlier poster meant about having to learn how to see through the 21mm viewfinder. I shot a bunch with the 21 in NYC this holiday time, but I'm not happy with many of them. This one of the Empire State Building from literally across the street wasn't too bad, though
 
I like your photo of the Flatiron more because for some reason I can't get enough of that building -- maybe you need to go back sometime with the Skopar and get the whole thing in. And I particularly like the streetlight in that photo.

I just got my 21mm Skopar too. I got the old LTM version as it's quite a bit cheaper and comes with a finder and it's now attached to one of my Bessa Ts. It's been over thirty years since I had such a wide lens -- the last was a Vivitar 20mm f3.8 for my Minolta SRT101. Anyway, I'm hoping to take some shots with the Skopar this weekend when I go up to Scotland -- if there's anything worth looking at I'll post it here next week.
 
I use the ultrawide lenses 25 and 15 to:
(1) Fit a subject into the picture when I am pressed for space. . . Like shooting a church next to a country road without having power lines hanging across the frame.

or

(2) To pull the object of interest into the foreground and shove everything else away into the distance.

See if you can find some galleries shot with 21mm lenses to see how this works.
The biggest mistake I see people make with a 21mm or 15mm is to use it for shooting scenics . . . everything in the frame turns out very small, and they come away disappointed.

BTW - The Empire State Building shot is superb.

Paul
 
I think the first two are excellent. The Flat Iron Building needs the base & the tree seems to cut across the photo. The Rule I was taught was that if you got one good shot on a roll that would be excellent...seems you made that with one to spare.
 
Another view of the Flatiron Building

Another view of the Flatiron Building

Thank you all for your kind comments and criticisms. I have posted here another image. I didn't like it as well because of the building encroaching from the left, and because of the visual clutter at the foot of the building.
 
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