Leica M Monochrom: best pics

Costa Brava, San Jose:

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David, thanks for the comment. There was an awful lot of sunlight and contrast that morning and its amazing that there is no flare anywhere in the image. I've owned the 3rd version 28 Elmarit and liked it very much but this version 4 lens seems to be even more capable with a higher overall resolution. It works well on the Monochrom so I'll go on learning it. My only complaint is that it seems to be a bit contrasty on film but I'm enjoying it...

Regards

Simon
 
Flat Twin said:
David, thanks for the comment. There was an awful lot of sunlight and contrast that morning and its amazing that there is no flare anywhere in the image. I've owned the 3rd version 28 Elmarit and liked it very much but this version 4 lens seems to be even more capable with a higher overall resolution. It works well on the Monochrom so I'll go on learning it. My only complaint is that it seems to be a bit contrasty on film but I'm enjoying it...

Regards

Simon
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Simon I only briefly used the v4 when shooting film and contrast wasn't an issue for me, I will say that my experience comparing this and other 28 lenses to the Aspheric version is that they are considerably less contrasty than it is.

Cheers,
David
 
icebear said:
I haven't explored the Southwest, your shots really make me want to go there, Vince.
I especially like "Cecilio, Wagon mount". Excellent focal choice, beautiful blurry background and just one visible eye below his base cap is the icing. Usually this doesn't work on purpose with the RF parallax, so taking a couple of shots moving ever so slightly and check afterwards for the best shot ... how did you approach this scene / him, if you don't mind spilling your beans😉?
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I've shot a lot in the southwest.I especially love northern New Mexico. Having said that my work from there is not near as revealing and powerful as Vince's work from that area. I tend to be more at home on the streets in large cities but I so love the Southwestern United States and Vince makes images there that really get to the heart of it all. Thanks Vince for sharing these inspiring images.
 
airfrogusmc said:
I've shot a lot in the southwest.I especially love northern New Mexico. Having said that my work from there is not near as revealing and powerful as Vince's work from that area. I tend to be more at home on the streets in large cities but I so love the Southwestern United States and Vince makes images there that really get to the heart of it all. Thanks Vince for sharing these inspiring images.
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Many thanks Allen -- I just got back from a two-week drive out there and back, and the minute I got home I wanted to get back in the truck and drive right back out.

The one thing I try to avoid doing out there are the typical landscape etc photos that many photographers seem to do out there (believe me it is tough!) -- call it my own quirkiness or my desire to find out really what the 'Spirit of the West' means (or at least my interpretation of it). It's so completely different to where I grew up (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and where I've been living for the past 20 years (Baltimore-DC corridor), but I feel so at home out there. Much more so than when I go to Toronto to visit family -- the city has changed so much since I lived there I hardly recognize it any more.

The 'Mapping the West' show that just finished at the Leica Store in DC is going to be showing at the Leica Store in Bellevue, Washington in April of next year, and it will be up until June. From there who knows what's next.

I'm hoping that I can drive out to Bellevue via New Mexico in April, and it will afford me the opportunity to see new parts of the West I haven't yet experienced.

Thanks again for all the encouragement and appreciation.
 
Vince Lupo said:
Many thanks Allen -- I just got back from a two-week drive out there and back, and the minute I got home I wanted to get back in the truck and drive right back out.

The one thing I try to avoid doing out there are the typical landscape etc photos that many photographers seem to do out there (believe me it is tough!) -- call it my own quirkiness or my desire to find out really what the 'Spirit of the West' means (or at least my interpretation of it). It's so completely different to where I grew up (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and where I've been living for the past 20 years (Baltimore-DC corridor), but I feel so at home out there. Much more so than when I go to Toronto to visit family -- the city has changed so much since I lived there I hardly recognize it any more.

The 'Mapping the West' show that just finished at the Leica Store in DC is going to be showing at the Leica Store in Bellevue, Washington in April of next year, and it will be up until June. From there who knows what's next.

I'm hoping that I can drive out to Bellevue via New Mexico in April, and it will afford me the opportunity to see new parts of the West I haven't yet experienced.

Thanks again for all the encouragement and appreciation.
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Vince, If you decide once in Bellevue to drive north out of the city and toward Vancouver, feel free to contact me or stop in. Bellingham is just 20 mins south of the border. I will be sure to see the show when it is in Bellevue.

David
 
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