RE: We're getting married here, but the Hopi might show up

  • From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:28:18 -0700

I should have added that I use either an M6 or a hand held light meter.....
either are spot meters.....

Comparison of metering "modes" in my head is  lot more difficult than
chimping.. even if it is a histogram....

And another advantage of digital photography......

Frank Filippone
red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From: leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mark Bohrer
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:43 PM
To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: We're getting married here, but the Hopi might show up

Frank:
After 40 years of photographing, about ten years of it with Leica 
M-series cameras, you get a feel for your camera's exposure meter and 
the images that result from following it. The Leica M8 and Canon EOS 1D 
mark II I used at Aztec Ruins give consistent readings, and I knew what 
I wanted to render in detail and what I could blow out. Chimping with 
small LCD screens on the backs of digital cameras, you really don't get 
a great idea of your fine exposure, especially in bright daylight when 
they're hard to see. A histogram display gives you a bit better idea - 
again, if you can read it in bright daylight.

So that's how I arrived at base exposure for raw image files. Then it 
was a bit of electronic dodging and burning in Lightroom to bring out 
sky detail. I could have used my old 1/2 ND (grad) filters to do the 
same thing, had I remembered to bring them.

The key tools were the 25mm f/2.8 Biogon T* ZM and EF 24mm f/3.5L TS-E. 
The TS-E lens isn't as sharp and has a lot more chromatic aberration 
than Zeiss and Leica optics, but it's a must to minimize converging 
verticals in architectural photography.

Thanks for looking and commenting.

Mark

Mark Bohrer
Active Light Photography
www.activelightphotography.com
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Frank Filippone wrote:
>
> The shots are all very nice.
>
> But what really impressed me was the exposures in very difficult 
> lighting. That reminded me that with digital cameras, you have the 
> "Chimping Factor"... the ability to see your exposures, and make 
> modifications if the shot is not right, and take another exposure.
>
> Now that is something we just can not do with film..and is very 
> attractive.
>
> Frank Filippone
>
> red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>  




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