allamande
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Very nice and eclectic set. Some feel stronger frames than others, you might want to consider editing some and grouping the others for bigger impact. Thanks for tour of this lovely place!
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Just back from Hokkaido - M9 + 21 Elmarit, 35 Lux & 35 Lux
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Thanks for viewing and the comments. Yes, I do notice my problem of being lazy in doing the frames. Shall do it more seriously next time. Thanks once again.
Thank you for sharing your journey - loads of wonderful imagery for sure. I thought the following were particularly dynamic in terms of composition/cropping, subject matter and your post treatment
The third image where the gull at top left is juxtaposed against the hillside bottom right is 10/10 for my money - makes for a very strong image.
The next shot of the sunset where you gave room for the sky to breathe is another well executed idea. The mountains at the bottom and the clouds above balanced off nicely for the eyes, with the small explosion of gold from the sun pulling you into the scene. Just love the whole image.
The protrait looks like a "stolen" capture and the subject's looks precious. Including what looks like the tree on the right works well for me. Great composition.
The silhouette shot is uncomplicated and beautiful - again, giving room to the skies was the right thing to do from my perspective.
You did well with manual focusing; not the easiest thing given the subject but most rewarding when it falls into place. By the way, can you recall the apertures you were using on the 21 Elmarit? The focal length I find allows for a degree of versatility in trying to achieve a desired zone of acceptable sharp focus, even shooting "from the hip" if you know what I mean.
Again, well done.
David
Melbourne
The third image where the gull at top left is juxtaposed against the hillside bottom right is 10/10 for my money - makes for a very strong image.
The next shot of the sunset where you gave room for the sky to breathe is another well executed idea. The mountains at the bottom and the clouds above balanced off nicely for the eyes, with the small explosion of gold from the sun pulling you into the scene. Just love the whole image.
The protrait looks like a "stolen" capture and the subject's looks precious. Including what looks like the tree on the right works well for me. Great composition.
The silhouette shot is uncomplicated and beautiful - again, giving room to the skies was the right thing to do from my perspective.
You did well with manual focusing; not the easiest thing given the subject but most rewarding when it falls into place. By the way, can you recall the apertures you were using on the 21 Elmarit? The focal length I find allows for a degree of versatility in trying to achieve a desired zone of acceptable sharp focus, even shooting "from the hip" if you know what I mean.
Again, well done.
David
Melbourne
Just to share some of the photos taken ... comments welcome! Quite a bit of them, so appreciate your patience. Thanks for watching. >
David,
Thanks a lot for your detailed comments. Very much appreciate your time to really look into my photos. This is the biggest reward I have for doing this lot of shots, definitely.
Frankly, I always have this weird way of compositing photos, that some of my friends find it ... what's the right word? ... weird. Glad that you like it.
I seldom used the 21, mostly with the 35 & 50. I remember I used the 21 for some of the lake shots (the blue one not the foggy grey one) and some others that I couldn't recall. And given those wide shots, I believe I used f8 or f11. Maybe f5.6 also, but I seldom used f16, unless it's too bright the sunlight.
Thanks once again for your comments. Comments on where I need to improve would be even more needed and welcome.
Cheers,
Gary
Thanks a lot for your detailed comments. Very much appreciate your time to really look into my photos. This is the biggest reward I have for doing this lot of shots, definitely.
Frankly, I always have this weird way of compositing photos, that some of my friends find it ... what's the right word? ... weird. Glad that you like it.
I seldom used the 21, mostly with the 35 & 50. I remember I used the 21 for some of the lake shots (the blue one not the foggy grey one) and some others that I couldn't recall. And given those wide shots, I believe I used f8 or f11. Maybe f5.6 also, but I seldom used f16, unless it's too bright the sunlight.
Thanks once again for your comments. Comments on where I need to improve would be even more needed and welcome.
Cheers,
Gary
Thank you for sharing your journey - loads of wonderful imagery for sure. I thought the following were particularly dynamic in terms of composition/cropping, subject matter and your post treatment
The third image where the gull at top left is juxtaposed against the hillside bottom right is 10/10 for my money - makes for a very strong image.
The next shot of the sunset where you gave room for the sky to breathe is another well executed idea. The mountains at the bottom and the clouds above balanced off nicely for the eyes, with the small explosion of gold from the sun pulling you into the scene. Just love the whole image.
The protrait looks like a "stolen" capture and the subject's looks precious. Including what looks like the tree on the right works well for me. Great composition.
The silhouette shot is uncomplicated and beautiful - again, giving room to the skies was the right thing to do from my perspective.
You did well with manual focusing; not the easiest thing given the subject but most rewarding when it falls into place. By the way, can you recall the apertures you were using on the 21 Elmarit? The focal length I find allows for a degree of versatility in trying to achieve a desired zone of acceptable sharp focus, even shooting "from the hip" if you know what I mean.
Again, well done.
David
Melbourne
Just to share some of the photos taken ... comments welcome! Quite a bit of them, so appreciate your patience. Thanks for watching. >
Day Garcia
Active member
Wow.. such a beautiful set. The shot with the red fox stands-out from the lot for me. Thank you for sharing.
Very nice series, only some of the photos are little bit too dark for me...
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May I ask which one you found are too dark? I'm always having the problem with this, and thus I normal turn my computer screen to middle brightness when checking the exposure if I need to do any compensation when converting the RAW to JPG. Would like to learn from you folks how you folks do it normally. Thanks in advance.
Carl Ibbet
Senior Member
What a great and enjoyable series. You have a very good eye and i really enjoyed looking through these. I loved 8.10 (then i lost count) the fox, and the last one which i found stunning!!
thanks for sharing them,
cheers,
Carl
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thanks for sharing them,
cheers,
Carl
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Chikubi
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Thanks for taking the time to post your photos, it's always enjoyable to see others' view of the world. Having lived and worked in Sapporo for a number of years, I'm always game for pics of the region.
While you do have some decent shots, my biggest criticism would be that very few of them do anything to convey the feeling of the area or even show that you were in another country. This might be due more to editing choices than anything else, but that's my general impression viewing the photos. Next time you go out, aside from technical practice with the camera, practice on your subject matter and what it conveys to the potential viewers of the photos. In other words, practice on what you want to show and say about the subject of your photos.
FWIW, here's a gallery of (mostly)Hokkaido photos I took a while back and had in a show recently: http://www.emasterphoto.com/gallery/毎 ;日-every-day/
Hokkaido's a great region of Japan, hope you can get back to enjoy it more in the future!
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While you do have some decent shots, my biggest criticism would be that very few of them do anything to convey the feeling of the area or even show that you were in another country. This might be due more to editing choices than anything else, but that's my general impression viewing the photos. Next time you go out, aside from technical practice with the camera, practice on your subject matter and what it conveys to the potential viewers of the photos. In other words, practice on what you want to show and say about the subject of your photos.
FWIW, here's a gallery of (mostly)Hokkaido photos I took a while back and had in a show recently: http://www.emasterphoto.com/gallery/毎 ;日-every-day/
Hokkaido's a great region of Japan, hope you can get back to enjoy it more in the future!
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HansID
Member
apart from the fox, these are typically puffed up intellectual leica shots.....empty...
Thanks for viewing ...
What a great and enjoyable series. You have a very good eye and i really enjoyed looking through these. I loved 8.10 (then i lost count) the fox, and the last one which i found stunning!!
thanks for sharing them,
cheers,
Carl
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Thanks for your comments & advice. This is exactly what I'm trying to learn. Leica to me is more about street photograph, but I always have problems shooting at people (I found it particularly difficult when I speak zero Japanese). Without people, I found my photos very ... "empty" ... I will keep working on it ... :-D ... Thanks once again for your time giving me the advice. I hope I can do better next time.
BTW, not sure if you have seen a Chinese movie called "非誠勿擾". I was sort of following the route of this movie when visiting Hokkaido this time. By the way, I've been Hokkaido for like 5-6 times, and I just love this region. And sure I love other parts of Japan as well, but Hokkaido in particular.
BTW, not sure if you have seen a Chinese movie called "非誠勿擾". I was sort of following the route of this movie when visiting Hokkaido this time. By the way, I've been Hokkaido for like 5-6 times, and I just love this region. And sure I love other parts of Japan as well, but Hokkaido in particular.
Thanks for taking the time to post your photos, it's always enjoyable to see others' view of the world. Having lived and worked in Sapporo for a number of years, I'm always game for pics of the region.
While you do have some decent shots, my biggest criticism would be that very few of them do anything to convey the feeling of the area or even show that you were in another country. This might be due more to editing choices than anything else, but that's my general impression viewing the photos. Next time you go out, aside from technical practice with the camera, practice on your subject matter and what it conveys to the potential viewers of the photos. In other words, practice on what you want to show and say about the subject of your photos.
FWIW, here's a gallery of (mostly)Hokkaido photos I took a while back and had in a show recently: http://www.emasterphoto.com/gallery/毎 ;日-every-day/
Hokkaido's a great region of Japan, hope you can get back to enjoy it more in the future!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/emasterphoto/
Sorry for my poor English ... I don't quite get what you meant. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
Oh, I see what you meant ... Mr. X100 owner ... Don't take me wrong, I love X100 and even thought about getting one as a backup camera at one point ... I just love your saying in your another posting ... "all mentioned cameras do not compete with the x100.....no matter how hard the owners try to convince otherwise" ... I suggest you stay home and don't come into this forum ... it will hurt your X100 ego. Period.
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