Photos from Chiang Mai, Thailand

Impressive, thank you! You captured some wonderful expressions and a way of life that is almost unknown in the west!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Wonderful!

Wonderful!

Your photos are very impressive and capture the life of a society.
I've concentrated on landscape for so long that I've forgotten how to photograph life, maybe I never new how. When the lens comes in for the Leica I recently purchased, I plan to head out and learn.

Thank you Peter.
 
Thank you Peter for sharing these. I remember all of them from the RFF gallery and how much I enjoyed them at the time. Your work is wonderfull.

I see you use only XP2 Super. You probably saw my post about my little test yesterday. I'd like to know how you expose it (what EI). Do you keep it at the same EI all the time or do you change it depending on the situation?

I know you use the same gear I do (R2 with Ultron 35/1.7). Don't you love the meter on the R2? I do. It just keeps impressing me. I try to beat it up every which way I can think of and so far, even with snow, it just keeps delivering perfect exposures.
 
Thanks Bill, Steve and Marc for viewing my work. As for XP2 exposure, I always expose it at 400. I mainly do documentary or street and I need a slightly faster shutter speed to capture moving subjects. As for the light meter of R2, I agree with you that the meter is very accurate and so far I have not had one bad exposure yet. I must say that the R2 is the right tool for my work. Happy shooting to you all!
 
Peter, I saw your post on CVUG and had a good look -- wow! you're doing fantastic work!

Gene
 
Hello dear friends too.

I'm always amazed to see your creativity Peter and also other's member work. I was walking today in Paris near le Louvres and was wondering what picture to take as nothing was strinking my mind. I need to travel :)

I hope Bessa R is having the same metering cell than R2 (it looks like). The only bad thing about it it that some low speed are not available for metering high speed films ( according to the shutter speed chart).
 
Thanks Gene and Laurent. As for the metering cell of Bessa R, I think it is the same as the one in R2 and if you use ISO 400 film anything lower than 1/4 sec will not be metered. I am not doing much low light work nowadays and hence not really bothered by it. If I am shooting street scenes at night, I would use shutter speed of 1 sec at f2.5 with Ilford XP2 rated at ISO 400. Yes, we should travel and refresh our photography experience.
 
Talking about night scenes, I took a few recently (see gallery). I metered with the R2 (XP2 Super at EI400). The result was 1/8 at f/2. Of course, there was snow all over the place...
 
Peter,
Very interesting travel shots. A great look into another world for those of us who can not go to them ourselves.
I also love XP2, keep it up ~ ;- )
 
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