[LRflex] Re: IMG: Street photography - Italy with CV wideangle lenses

Thanks Bill,
I think it is the rather special early morning light in the Pisa shots - it was some time between 6:30 and 7 a.m., a refreshingly cool walk before breakfast. It's fascinating to walk through the narrow streets and alleys, and then, all of a sudden, there's the tower and that amazing basilica.
Absolutely gobsmacking - you don't see it around any corners or peeping over the rooftops - it really just jumps out at you. And, to be quite honest, photography cannot do it justice. You really have to be there. 

Cheers
Douglas

William B. Abbott III wrote:

Douglas,
I have been trying to figure out why your Pisa pictures seem so "different" from the usual b&w's and I have no answer, but they seem to glow in a different way. A couple of the Milan pictures hit me that way too.
Perhaps it was what you just said, about their early morning origin, because it seems like the almost horizontal angle of the sun and shadowless foregrounds are what my eye is responding to. Whatever the cause, they really caught my eye as something different and stand out in the crowd. 

Thanks for making them.

All the best,

Bill


On Mar 28, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:


Hi Philippe,
actually, a lot of the work had already been completed below ground level by a German company that usually does contracts for preventing damage from mining subsidence.
It was a chance not to be missed - around 6:30 on a cool and sunny morning at the end of April, a long walk before breakfast before an all-day conference about the use of geophysical surveys and advanced data processing for locating geothermal hotspots for power generation in Tuscany.
Pisa is almost deserted at that time in the morning - not a tourist in sight. 

Cheers
Douglas

Philippe AMARD wrote:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/1Image4-1_edited-1-Edit-2.jpg.html
This one shows the date I guess - they must have finished restauring it by now - and also that the works were not so much needed ;-)
Very nice series Douglas - makes me long for Italy, and particularly the beautiful light of Tuscany. 

Thanks for rekindling fond memories.
Amitiés from Hannover-weathered Metz.
Philippe


Douglas Sharp wrote:


Hello all,
I generally stick to things like steam trains and flowers and leave street photography to experts like Lluis.
But, today it's snowing again, so I took some time to process some old slides (2003) that had terrible colour casts (either old stock,bad developing or X-ray machines in Italian airports) and decided to use almost every possible option in Lightroom 2.3 and convert them to BW in PS. 

Hope you like them. Comments and critique more than welcome.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/

There's even one with a Signorina :-)
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/1Image15-3-Edit.jpg.html
Technical details: Leica M6 and Minolta CLE + CV 12 and 15 mm lenses, shot on Fuji film. 

Cheers
Douglas

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