Leica M Monochrom: best pics

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35 Summilux version 2
 
oh my goodness, lots of People to Thank
Vince, Larry, Kamurah, David, Charles, Robert, Klaus, Richard, Allen
for their kind thoughts, raising the bar for me to jump over in such a Great thread with sooo many Fantastic monochrom shots by sooo many Great photographers !

no decisive moments... just two snaps getting me closer to understand the inner workings of Madame Monochrom

For sure Miss M9M shoots easier in lowlight than Miss M9 though they both are 18mp and CCD gals

coming back from Long Island ...heading home to city




the road ahead by Helen Hill, on Flickr
 
Well, it looks like Helen and Miss Monochrom get along very nicely. ;)

How do you like the totally different rendering with almost no grain? Your analog images always used the film grain as integral part of the work. What's your perception of what the b&w sensor is giving you? Most importantly have fun, get out there and shoot.
 
Oh hey Klaus
Beautiful camera
I tend to like higher Iso values ... less clean so to speak
not completely sold on Miss M but can see the 'magic'
 
Richard G said:
Robert, that Monochrom was not wasted in your hands. Great shots.
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Thank you, Richard.

Since moving across the USA I’ve been photographing less, posting less, but reworking my development process and tonal values more. Some changes are more or less global shifts in slider values—highlight, shadow, contrast, color channel luminance in BW conversion—; others are ‘mindset changes,’ like using the radial filter instead of graduated/brush filters. (Some changes, like color channel luminance tweaks, are refreshingly irrelevant to the M246.)

It’s a slow, deliberate revision of hundreds and ultimately thousands of images, because I’m Luddite enough to do it one image at a time (rather than applying presets), and one camera at a time (because long ago I organized my LR catalog by camera). A good project for the life of the images beyond my life, and for the current viral confinement protocols, and for our indoors AC life in the hottest most humid Carolina summer.

But I’m running low on recent images from certain cameras, like the M246 and M-D 262, and my film cameras are completely idle. When the larger world beyond our small refuge is safer again, I’ll make more distant urban/street pilgrimages as well as landscape/seascape pilgrimages to make new images which, I hope, will also be more consonant with the changes in my developmental values.
 
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