Buffalo roaming. Leica Monochrom. 28mm Summicron Asph, cropped quite a bit.
Archive for Leica Monochrom
Oh Show Me A Home…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 28mm Summicron, Leica Monochrom on July 5, 2013 by johnbuckley100Going Nowhere
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm Noctilux 0.95, Leica Monochrom on July 1, 2013 by johnbuckley100Leica Monochrom, Noctilux.
The Ballad Of The Easy Rider
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm Noctilux 0.95, Leica Monochrom on July 1, 2013 by johnbuckley100All he wanted to do was pet the horse. And they sort of hung back and laughed at him. Leica Monochrom, 50mm Noctilux.
We Have Captured A Basilisk
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 35mm Summilux FLE, Leica Monochrom on May 18, 2013 by johnbuckley100If looks could kill… Leica Monochrom, 35mm Summilux FLE. At The Bishop’s Garden, where apparently finding a photographer around the corner wasn’t what the Russian woman expected.
Speaking Of The Element Of Light
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 35mm Summilux FLE, Leica Monochrom on April 28, 2013 by johnbuckley100On a very brief stroll while in San Diego on business, we were reminded of just how powerful that SoCal light is in the A.M., people walking on a flat surface yet seeming to have to push against it to get anywhere. Good things happen where light meets dark, photographers say, and we were reminded just how much of those contrasting elements West Coast photographers have to play with. We materialize in shadow in the lower right. Leica Monochrom, 35mm Summilux FLE, orange filter.
Will He Make It?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 35mm Summilux FLE, Leica Monochrom on April 27, 2013 by johnbuckley100That train looks angry. Leica Monochrom, 35mm Summilux FLE, orange filter.
Waiting For Action
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 35mm Summilux FLE, Leica Monochrom on April 27, 2013 by johnbuckley100
It was 8:30 on yet another beautiful Friday morning, and I was waiting for a little action to walk into my shop. Suddenly, I see this guy with a camera, and he’s lookin’ right at me…
San Diego bail bondsman, Friday, April 26th, Leica Monochrom, 35mm Summilux, Orange filter.
Our City Won’t Look Like This, Not In A Thousand Years
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 21mm Summilux, Leica Monochrom, Uxmal on April 2, 2013 by johnbuckley100Or will it? Uxmal, Yucatan. Leica Monochrom, 21mm Summilux. (This one you really need to click on to see…)
Wish Us Luck
Posted in Uncategorized with tags "DC As I See It", 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, Leica 35mm Summilux FLE, Leica M9, Leica Monochrom, Leica Store DC, Thorsten Overgaard on March 17, 2013 by johnbuckley100In the span of less than a year, the Leica Store in Washington, D.C. has become a remarkable gallery space and photography hub. Some weeks ago, they announced a juried competition entitled “D.C. As I See It,” open to photographers from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, but limited to photographs of the “real D.C.,” taken with Leica equipment. You might imagine this perked our interest. Let’s see, live in D.C. Check. Take pictures with Leica equipment. Check. Take pictures of what we consider the real D.C. Ok, we said, and we submitted five images.
The three jurors are all eminent Washington photographers, printers, and gallerists, and the two-phase process consists of a review of images submitted digitally, and after a cull, a review of the finalists’ prints. We are pleased to say two of our images made it into the finals, which means sometime today they either will or will not be chosen for display on the Leica Store’s walls.
We have one color image in contention, taken with a Leica M9 and 35mm Summilux last September, when we were wandering the city with the great Danish photographer and workshop leader Thorsten Overgaard.
A second image was taken with the Leica Monochrom and 50mm APO-Summicron-Asph near Logan Circle just a few weeks ago.
Wish us luck! We’ll report in later if either of them makes it.
Simple Black & White Bake Off Between the Leica M and Leica Monochrom
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, Leica M, Leica M-240, Leica Monochrom, Silver Efex 2 on March 7, 2013 by johnbuckley100What follows is not scientific. One image (taken with the Leica Monochrom) comes from a cloudy day, and was shot at ISO 800. The other image (taken with the Leica M-240) was taken on a sunnier day, at ISO 640. Each was taken with the 50mm APO-Summicron-Asph at f/8, Monochrom at 1/125th, and the M at 1/500th. Both were processed in LR4, and then sent over to Nik Silver Efex Pro2, where we toyed with them in the High Structure preset. So, similar settings, similar post-production, not quite identical. My reason for this experiment was to determine whether or not the M-240 takes images that can compete with the Monochrom’s, when converted to black and white. Here are the two shots; look at them carefully, and after which I’ll weigh in. Admittedly, you are seeing these in a significantly down-rezzed file so they could be posted online. As always, click on the image to see them at a better resolution.
M-240:
Monochrom:
So, same lens, slightly different light conditions. One image in its native monochrome, the second image converted to black and white.
My conclusion? I think the M-240 black and white rendering is quite good, and I would not hesitate, after taking a picture, converting the image to black and white. But I also think the Monochrom image is just that much better — a little more detail in the grays, a little richer. So, which is better? I think the Monochrom. Is the M-240 black and white rendering good enough to use and be happy with? I think so.
What do you think?
Tulip Frenzy 