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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