Sunday, April 17, 2011

Artists' Palette




Mineralized rock formations in Death Valley. First two captured digitally with M9 Elmarit 28m f2.8 and 90m f2.8. MF Velvia with warming filter distagon 50m f4.
Dan

3 Comments:

Blogger Warren T. said...

That's real nice scenery and interesting rock formations in general.

The M9 shots look like they need some PP to bring out their full potential. This Velvia shot is spectacular with good color balance, detail, and composition.

--WT

Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 6:25:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Ted M said...

Hi Dan, Velvia is a great slide film, one of my favorites, but far from neutral. Comparing Velvia images with out of camera RAW or JPGs from a non-film emulating digital, is an apples to oranges comparison.

If your goal is to get better out of camera images from your M9, I'd go into your M9 settings and adjust some things in there that by design, make default RAW and JPGs look pretty flat. (If you're all about RAW and not at all into JPG, you're missing out on some cool JPG only technology in the Leica digitals.).

Here are some landscapes out of camera with Hexanon 28/2.8, as well as CV 21/4s, with an M8: http://matsumura.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Grand-Palouse-Wheatscapes/13433495_KjKhU No photoshop.

Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 7:30:00 PM PDT  
Blogger dan in marin said...

Thanx Ted, I thought I could shoot RAW and PP. On my next outing I will play around with capturing in both formats and see what I can come up with.

Dan

Monday, April 18, 2011 at 3:48:00 PM PDT  

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